It 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. ANDY BLAU In BIRMINGHAM at WILSON-CRISSMAN CADILLAC RES. 642-6836 CALL BUS. MI 4-1930 1350 N. 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