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Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.
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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No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.
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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 determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?
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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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