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France Is Believed
Speeding Up Delivery
of Mirages to Libya
'Between You
...and Me'
Editor-in-Chief Emeritus, JTA
(Copyright 19'71, JTA Inc.)
THE FUTURE OF YIDDISH: I do not belong to the pessimists who
are writing off Yiddish entirely from American Jewish life. My
optithism is based on the constant growth of Yiddish courses in colleges
and universities throughout the country. Already there is a shortage
in qualified instructors for such courses.
Just as in the Soviet Union many young students who never had
any Jewish education suddenly discovered a deep inner urge for more
knowledge about their Jewishness, so it is today also with some Jewish
youths in this country. While interested in human problems in general,
they are beginning to become• aware of the fact that Jews have a rich
cultural heritage. Like students of other national minorities on the
campus, they too, are beginning to seek more knowledge of their own
culture. English books on Yiddish that appear in this country provoke
more interest now than ever before.
The ever-increasing number of students who search for the knowl-
edge of Yiddish—a language completely alien to them but nevertheless
the language of their parents and grandparents—is drawing a good
deal of attention in the Jewish scholarly world and in the publishing
world. Books dealing with Yiddish language and literature are now
being published by well known American publishing houses and some
of these volumes are reprinted in second and even third editions.
Indicative of the interest in Yiddish is the current number of
applications for summer courses in Yiddish language and literature
given at Columbia University by the YIVO Center for Advanced Jewish
Studies. Graduate and post-graduate students from about 30 univer-
sities in various cities are now seeking registration for these courses.
The number of applications for admission also is substantial this
season for the Uriel Weinreich Program in Yiddish Language, Litera-
ture and Culture sponsored by Columbia University in cooperation
with the YIVO Center.
These courses provide classroom instructions, Monday through
Friday, and offer elementary Yiddish—grammar, reading, composition
and oral practice—up to and including reading and discussion of
major texts in Yiddish prose, poetry and drama in English translation
and in the original. They also offer college credits.
Similar programs, with proper credits, also are offered in colleges
and universities in various cities. Their number is increasing like the
number of courses on Negro culture. In fact, it was the growing
demand of black students for the introduction of courses on Negro
culture in American schools of higher learning that stimulated Jewish
students to request the establishment also of courses on Yiddish
culture.
A solid prediction on the future of Yiddish in America is made
by Maurice Samuel, the noted author of more than 25 books, in his
new volume "In Praise of Yiddish," published this week by Cowles
Book Company.
Samuel does not need any introduction to our readers. Some of
his books have made an impact on American literature. It was his
"World of Sholom Aleichem" that introduced the great Jewish humorist
to the American non-Jewish readers, leading to the world-wide success
of "Fiddler on the Roof" which is based on Sholom Aleichem's works.
In Samuel's opinion, while we shall never again have monolingual
Yiddish-speaking masses, or even small groups not thoroughly inte-
grated into another primary language, still a cultured Jew at home
in his people's history and experience will be unable to dispense with
Yiddish as the accompanying language.
(See review of Samuel's book on last page of this issue.)
NEW CADILLAC?
SEE OR CALL
PARIS (JTA)—France is speed-
ing up its deliveries of Mirage
jets to Libya at the request of the
Libyan government, the Jewish
Telegraphic Agency learned from
circles close to the Dassault firm
which manufactures the supersonic
aircraft.
France agreed last year to sell
Libya 110 Mirages with deliveries
to be spaced through 1972. Ac-
cording tothe JTA's informants,
more than 20 Mirages have been
delivered already, and the pace
will be i n c r e a s e d in coming
months.
Observers here believe the
Libyans want as many of the 110
Mirages as possible in their pos-
session by next September, when
a popular referendum will be held
to ratify the projected federation
of Libya with Egypt and Syria.
They want them as a pre-
caution against any surprise
decision by France to embargo
the planes if the federation
agreement is implemented.
France stipulated in its contract
with the Tripoli regime that the
planes must not be transferred
to a third power. French officials
have said that if that stipulation
was violated, the deliveries of
Mirages would be halted.
France still maintains an arms
embargo against the nations it
regards as belligerents in the
Middle East conflict because of
their participation in the 1967 war.
They are Israel, Egypt, Jordan and
Syria. Libya is not regarded as a
belligerent, but its federation with
Egypt and Syria might make it
one in French eyes.
Some of the jets already de-
livered to Libya are training
models. They will enable the
Libyans to train air crews simul-
taneously in France and at the
former American Wheelus Air
Force Base near Tripoli.
NEW YORK — In keeping with
the National Jewish Welfare
Board's training programs in Is-
rael for professional workers in
American Jewish community cen-
ters and YM-YWHAs, a seminar
for new, younger workers will be
conducted in Israel to provide its
participants with an intensive in-
d e p t h training experience to
heighten their professional and
personal insights into Israel's role
in enhancing Jewish life in Amer-
ica.
Twenty-six men and women,
who in recent years have joined
the staffs of centers and Ys in
various parts of the United States
and Montreal, and 14 of their
spouses have registered for the
institute which will be conducted
under the joint auspices of the Na-
tional Jewish W e If a r e Board
(JWB), the American Zionist
Youth Foundation and the Jewish
Agency youth and hehalutz depart-
ment Sept. 1-12.
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