Theo : The Autobiography of Theodore Bikel

by Bikel, Theodore

• ISBN13: 9780299182847
• ISBN10: 0299182843
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Pr

Summary

An award-winning actor on screen and stage ( The Defiant Ones, The African Queen, The Sound of Music, My Fair Lady, Fiddler on the Roof), an activist for civil rights and progressive causes worldwide, and a singer whose voice has won him great applause, Theodore Bikel here tells his own compelling life story. Born in Austria, raised in Palestine, educated in England, and with a stellar career in the United States and around the world, Bikel offers a personal history parallel to momentous events of the twentieth century. In an eloquent, fiercely committed voice, he writes of the Third Reich, the birth of the State of Israel, the McCarthy witch hunts of the 1950s, and the tumultuous 1960s in America. In a new postscript to this paperback edition, he looks at recent events in the Middle East and takes both sides to task for their excesses.

Author Biography

Theodore Bikel lives in California and Connecticut. He continues to work as an actor, singer, and activist, supporting the search for peace and other causes

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Flashback	p. 1
Hebrew Theatre	p. 22
... Trippingly on the Tongue	p. 37
The Kindness of Strangers	p. 56
The Guitars of the Exile	p. 73
East End, West End, and the Palace	p. 93
How Much Does He Want?	p. 113
America--Love at First Sight	p. 134
Folk Lure	p. 152
Peregrinations	p. 184
The Hills Are Alive	p. 204
Union Dues	p. 219
Come, Let Us Reason Together	p. 249
I Sing and I'll Keep Singing	p. 267
Versatility	p. 289
Tevye	p. 321
From Jerusalem to Jerusalem	p. 355
Entebbe, Vanessa, and Other Thoughts	p. 366
Zorba	p. 382
Toward the Millennium	p. 406
Epilogue	p. 429
Postscript 2002	p. 431
Index	p. 443
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