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We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.
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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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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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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Audiences are audiences.
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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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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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I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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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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You learn more from the flops than from the hits.
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In my world, history comes down to language and art. No one cares much about what battles were fought, who won them and who lost them - unless there is a painting, a play, a song or a poem that speaks of the event.
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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.
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On the stage you're there, it's live. There's a beginning, a middle, an end. When something is funny you hear it right away.
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I always sang, I always acted, I always played.
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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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'Visiting Mr. Green' is a good play. I enjoy being in it, and I have a wonderful colleague, Aidan deSalaiz, to work with. Audiences like it a lot. What's not to like?
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Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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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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