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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.
Theodore Bikel
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Theodore Bikel
Age: 91 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 2
Died: 2015
Died: July 21
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I do prefer the stage. It's really the granddaddy of them all.
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I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.
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What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.
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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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