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.
Theodore BikelHaving come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.
Theodore BikelBut, when I toil in the field of Jewish culture which I frequently do, I am indeed a Jewish artist.
Theodore Bikel