But, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
From Theodore Bikel
For I firmly believe that Jewish life, indeed any communal life, can only be organized according to democratic principles.
I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder.
I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures or that the Jewish song is better than the song of my neighbor.
I remain convinced that I can be a true universalist only when I am a better Jew.
Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?
No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations.
No movement can afford to be caught in a time warp and exist in a state of suspended animation.
One might have thought the world would stop ascribing moral equivalence between acts of terrorism and acts of punishing terrorism. It has not happened that way.
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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