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I am a Zionist, an ardent supporter of Israel, its defender when I deem Israel to be right and its critic when I deem it to be wrong.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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Vienna
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Theodore Meir Bikel
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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.
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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab child is no cause for celebration in Israel.
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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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I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
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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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If I have one vanity wish, it would be to direct. It's the only thing I haven't done yet that I would like to.
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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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Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
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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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