Quotes by Theodore Bikel

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.

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.

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.

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

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

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.