We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.
From Theodore Bikel
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.
By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir us to action. Such films do battle for our very soul.
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.
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.
Throughout my life I have cared as deeply about the songs of all peoples as I have about the rights of all peoples.
I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation.
We live in a world of guns, bombs and terror. To conquer hate seems a nigh-impossible task.
I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.
I am determined to give the Yiddish language a fighting chance to survive.
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