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An Autobiography

Theodore Bikel

• Editore: University of Wisconsin Press
• Anno: 2002
• ISBN:
  9780299182830

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.

Indice dei contenuti

• Contents
• Preface
• 1 Flashback
• 2 Hebrew Theatre
• 3 …Trippingly on the Tongue
• 4 The Kindness of Strangers
• 5 The Guitars of the Exile
• 6 East End, West End, and the Palace
• 7 How Much Does He Want?
• 8 America—Love at First Sight
• 9 Folk Lure
• 10 Peregrinations
• 11 The Hills Are Alive
• 12 Union Dues
• 13 Come, Let Us Reason Together
• 14 I Sing and I’ll Keep Singing
• 15 Versatility
• 16 Tevye
• 17 From Jerusalem to Jerusalem
• 18 Entebbe, Vanessa, and Other Thoughts
• 19 Zorba
• 20 Toward the Millennium
• Epilogue
• Postscript 2002
• Index
• Photographs follow page 184.