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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
Actor
Businessperson
Film Actor
Musician
Politician
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Television Actor
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Vienna
Austria
Theodore Meir Bikel
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As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.
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I know for certain of only one commandment, one obligation, that God imposes upon us, and that is to be compassionate toward other human beings.
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But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.
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While we all could agree that the Zionist ideal is alive and well, there is serious doubt whether the Zionist movement can be said to be an ongoing proposition, fragmented as its components are in ideology and in practice.
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I do not know who there is among us that can claim to know God's purpose and God's intent.
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
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I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
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