Theodore Bikel

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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.

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age

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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age

No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language.

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art

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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art

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. To me it was meaningless. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sings about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

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beauty

I tried for a while to be an agricultural worker and was hopelessly bored. I would stand around in heaps of manure and sing about the beauty of the work I wasn't doing.

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beauty

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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death

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

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equality

I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

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family

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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fear

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