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By Theodore Bikel
An award-winning actor on monitor and level (The Defiant Ones, The African Queen, The Sound of song, My reasonable girl, Fiddler at the Roof), an activist for civil rights and revolutionary motives around the globe, and a singer whose voice has received him nice applause, Theodore Bikel right here tells his personal compelling lifestyles tale. Born in Austria, raised in Palestine, trained in England, and with a stellar occupation within the usa and worldwide, Bikel deals a own heritage parallel to momentous occasions of the 20 th century. In an eloquent, fiercely dedicated voice, he writes of the 3rd Reich, the delivery of the kingdom of Israel, the McCarthy witch hunts of the Fifties, and the tumultuous Sixties in the US. In a brand new postscript to this paperback version, he appears to be like at contemporary occasions within the center East and takes either side to activity for his or her excesses.
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Our COlnpany had grown: Tuvia (Herbert) Griinbaum had joined us, an excellent if also slightly crazy actor originally from Germany-are any of them ever sane and normal? Then there were Gerschon Klein and Chana Meron, both fornler child actors in Gernlan films. Chana later became one of Israel's leading ladies. Then there was Yossi Yadin, brother of the famous general and archaeologist Yigael Yadin. Chana and Yossi, then married to each other, had come from the army entertainment unit. Having spent a long time entertaining troops in the field, they were glad to perform before civilians in a proper theatre-and just as glad to shed their own uniforms.
In the early 1980s he directed a play in Houston, in English naturally, and the sumnler of 1992 found Karl directing in Bielsko-Biala, Poland-in Polish. And here I thought that I was the polyglot of the theatre and the true wanderingJew! By the time the Cameri was halfway into its season, the war had ended. With it came a lot of anguish as the survivors revealed the true extent of the Holocaust. The Jewish settlement in Palestine mourned, but with that mourning came strengthened resolve to build a society, a self-governing one, of Jews in Palestine-forever to stand as a refuge 36 • THEO and a hOllIe for Jews everywhere.
My classl1lates, all10ng thelll John Neville and l)orothy Tutin, faithfully attended everything. Sonle things I rushed to attend because I thought I Inight find thenl useful. Fencing, for example, would give me the skill for SOIl1e Shakespearean fight scenes. I bought Illy fencing gear, as required, and dutifully attended the classes. No role I have ever had to play, then or since, called for nle to engage in swordplay. Oh well. One subject, elocution classes, given by Mr. Clifford Turner, I felt would give me the polished delivery in the l1luch coveted King's English.