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	Theodore Bikel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Theodore Bikel (born May 2, 1924) is an Austrian-born character actor and folk singer.
		Bikel was a co-founder of the Newport Folk Festival (together with Pete Seeger and George Wein) in 1961.
		Theodore Bikel has been a professional, actor, singer, musician, recording artist, lecturer and arts activist for over six decades and continues to be active in all media.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theodore_Bikel (369 words)

	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Theodore Bikel
		Bikel was born in 1924 in Vienna, and reached his teen years just as the Fascists came to power.
		Bikel did earn the honor of being a member of the Jewish Settlement Police, wearing a "brownish uniform" and a hat with a badge and carrying around a Lee Enfield rifle he had learned to shoot at agricultural college.
		Bikel did what he was told though, and passed all the prerequisites and tests just in case he may have to fall back on academia one day.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Theodore-Bikel (1171 words)

	Theodore Bikel - Biography - AOL Music
		Bikel has recorded for Elektra, Columbia, and Reprise, published Folksongs & Footnotes, and served as a vice president of the American Jewish Congress.
		Bikel was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1924, but his family fled to Palestine in 1938, where they became British subjects.
		Bikel wanted to study language and become a teacher, so he worked at a communal farm to help pay expenses.
	music.aol.com /artist/theodore-bikel/1921/biography (538 words)

	Theodore Bikel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		On this level Theodore Bikel is a true "folknik." Finding that his human concerns and his musical passions are all wrapped together.
		As a concert folksinger since 1955, Bikel was signed by Elektra Records in 1958 and recorded numerous albums of international folksongs (most notably Yiddish songs).
		In 1977, Bikel was appointed to the National Council for the Arts.
	users2.ev1.net /~smyth/linernotes/personel/BikelTheodore.htm (594 words)

	Theodore Bikel is Pre-Labor Day speaker Aug. 31
		Theodore Bikel, an Emmy award-winning actor and former leader of Actors ' Equity Association, the preeminent U.S. union for stage actors, is the Pre-Labor Day speaker at Cornell, Thursday, Aug. 31.
		Hurd said Bikel's appearance is particularly timely in light of the current strike by members of the Screen Actors' Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA).
		Bikel has appeared in 35 films, among them "The Defiant Ones." The Oscar-winning 1958 film starred Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis as an interracial pair of escaped convicts chained to each other.
	www.news.cornell.edu /http://www.n/Chronicle/00/8.24.00/Bikel.html (639 words)

	The Milken Archive of American Jewish Music
		Folksinger; theater, film, and television actor; radio host; president of Actors' Equity; political activist; Jewish spokesman, Theodore Bikel was born in 1924 in Vienna and was thirteen when his parents emigrated to Palestine.
		Bikel's American television career, spanning some thirty-five years, includes such characterizations as a Scottish policeman in Alfred Hitchcock Presents, a Mad Bomber, a South African Boer on the hunt in New York (Equalizer), Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Henry Kissinger in The Final Days, and the 1988 Emmy-winning title role in PBS's Harris Newmark.
		Bikel the celebrated and much-recorded folksinger made his concert debut at Carnegie Recital Hall in 1956.
	www.milkenarchive.org /artists/artists.taf?artistid=140 (400 words)

	Theodore Bikel - San Diego Jewish Journal
		In these and numerous other roles Bikel's flexibility of characterization is amply demonstrated: a Chinese crook, a Scottish police officer, an American university dean, a Russian submarine skipper, a Jewish refugee, a Greek peanut vendor, a Hindu doctor, an Austrian nobleman and a Hungarian linguist, among others.
		Bikel fashioned his Tevye after his own grandfather, Reb Shimon Bikel, whom he was quite close with growing up.
		Bikel maintains an active concert schedule throughout the U.S. and abroad, with some 50 to 60 concerts per year, performing alone or with large symphony orchestras.
	www.sdjewishjournal.com /stories/cover_nov03.html (2887 words)

	Interviews With The Star (Theodore Bikel) And The Director (David Ellenstein) Of "The Chosen", Paper Mill ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The specialization for Bikel, in this instance, is acting, since his strictly kosher role does not require him to either sing any of the international folk songs that he has recorded and performed over the years, or play the guitar, his instrument of choice.
		Bikel has had what can be proudly boasted as a full life in the theater.
		Bikel, who speaks fluent Hebrew, Yiddish, and German with a respectable command of English and French, calls upon his linguistic skill by authenticating Reb Saunders, a Lithuanian, with a Litvak-Yiddish accent.
	www.theaterscene.net /ts/articles.nsf/FI/09E492E69F31253A85256E3C001F85D7 (1463 words)

	Talented Theodore Bikel thrives on diversity
		As a founder of the Newport Folk Festival in 1961, he notes there is continued growth in the popularity of folk music in the world.
		A U.S. citizen since 1961, Bikel was active politically in the civil rights movement and an elected delegate to the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago.
		Bikel performs as often as 60 times a year and, after his performance here, will start rehearsals for a new production of "The Gathering" being staged in Florida in December.
	www.post-gazette.com /magazine/19991025bikel2.asp (705 words)

	Bikel explains need for actors' unions
		Bikel is president of the Associated Actors and Artistes of America (known to its members as the 4A's), an umbrella organization of performers' unions that includes those representing movie, television and stage actors, musicians, writers, classical performers and others.
		Bikel touched briefly on current issues such as copyrights and performers' rights, physical access of audiences to performers and the need to introduce the live arts to young people.
		Bikel concluded by admitting that unions also have an image problem with young people.
	www.news.cornell.edu /http://www.n/Chronicle/00/9.7.00/Bikel_cover.html (660 words)

	Tucson Federation - Theodore Bikel to take the stage in Mendelssohn drama at Berger Center
		Bikel made his first stage appearance as the Village Clerk in a Tel Aviv production of Tevye, the Milkman and would play the life-loving Tevye so many times in Fiddler on the Roof that it became his signature role.
		Bikel portrays Paul, a talented cellist, who outlived the short lives of his famous brother Felix, and two sisters, Fanny and Rebecka.
		Following the show, at 6 p.m., a dinner with Bikel at the Z Mansion also is available for $25 plus tax, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting the Pima Council on Aging.
	www.jewishtucson.org /content_display.html?ArticleID=105109 (318 words)

	theodore bikel
		singer, guitarist, song collector, and author theodore bikel came to new york in 1955 and was soon an integral part of the folk scene in this country.
		theodore bikel starred in fiddler on the roof (not the film, probably on broadway), obviously a role requiring one to sing.
		one of bikel's recordings was presumably successful enough for allan sherman to parody it.
	www.united-mutations.com /b/theodore_bikel.htm (817 words)

	Biography for Theodore Bikel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Theodore Bikel is one of the most versatile and respected actors and performers of his generation.
		Equally at home on the stage, Bikel is remembered for creating the role of Captain Von Trapp in the original Broadway cast of "The Sound of Music" opposite Mary Martin.
		Bikel is fluent in more than half a dozen European and Middle Eastern languages, and sings folk songs in nearly 20 languages, skillfully accompanying himself on guitar, mandolin, balalaika and harmonica.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0000942/bio (371 words)

	Theodore Bikel : Theodore Bikel's Treasury of Yiddish Theatre and Folk Songs - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Released in 2004, this remarkable anthology is drawn from Theodore Bikel's extensive Elektra Records catalog circa the 1950s and early '60s.
		Vocalist Bikel and label founder Jac Holzman compiled more than two-dozen selections steeped in both the Yiddish theater and the rich folk music traditions of Israel, Eastern Europe, and Russia.
		While on Elektra, Bikel produced numerous titles, and the contents of Theodore Bikel's Treasury of Yiddish Theatre and Folk Songs are derived from three specific long-players.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,2880180,00.html (313 words)

	SurfWax: News, Reviews and Articles On Theodore Bikel
		Theater J brings the legendary Theodore Bikel to town in "The Disputation" (through Oct. 2), Hyam Maccoby's powerful reconstruction of 13th-century Barcelona, where King James is compelled by the Pope to convert the Jews of Spain by way of a series of debates.
		Bikel, best known for his critically acclaimed role of Tevye in "Fiddler on the Roof," which he has performed (by last count) more than 2000 times.
		Theodore Bikel starred in Ellenstein's staging of "The Chosen," adapted from Chaim Potok's novel, first at the Coconut Grove Playhouse in Florida and later at the Paper Mill Playhouse in New Jersey.
	news.surfwax.com /dramatheatre/files/Theodore_Bikel_Play.html (1270 words)

	Theodore Bikel - Fass Speakers Bureau
		Bikel has made some 35 films, amongst which are The African Queen, My Fair Lady, The Enemy Below, The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming, I Want to Live, and The Defiant Ones for which he received an Academy Award nomination.
		Bikel has been active for many years in Actors' Equity Association, serving from 1973 to 1982 as President.
		Theodore Bikel discusses the curious absence of Jewish themes and characters in motion pictures before the Fifties and the nature of their appearance afterwards.
	www.fasspr.com /fsb/TheodoreBikel.html (515 words)

	Theodore Bikel, Nearing 80, Promises 'Lots More'
		Bikel, who speaks fluent Hebrew, Yiddish, and German - as well as having a respectable command of English and French - uses his linguistic skill in this role by authenticating Reb Saunders, a Lithuanian, with a Litvak-Yiddish accent.
		Among Bikel's many films, one needs only to hear his Southern drawl (Academy Award nomination for the Sheriff in "The Defiant Ones,"), his Russian (submarine skipper in "The Russians are Coming, The Russians Are Coming"), Hungarian ("My Fair Lady"), and German ("The African Queen") to appreciate his consummate linguistic flair.
		Bikel remained with that production in London for a year and a half before going on to tour for another year.
	www.princetoninfo.com /200403/40303p06.html (1405 words)

	Theodore Bikel : Folk Songs from Just About Everywhere - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect
		Covering traditional folk tunes from ten countries and in 11 languages, Theodore Bikel and Geula Gill duet on this most extraordinary collection.
		Bikel and Gill complement each over very well vocally, exceptionally well on Israel's "Shir Hanoar." Both earn extra high marks for the skill in which they maneuver the rapid tempo changes most of the songs incorporate, as well.
		Still, Bikel has earned his reputation singing Yiddish tunes, and the songs of this tradition rightfully dominate the collection.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,52610,00.html (257 words)

	Theodore Bikel's Treasury Of Yiddish Theatre And Folk Songs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The name Theodore Bikel is virtually synonymous with Jewish and Israeli music and song.
		Born in Vienna in 1924, Theo studied drama first at the Hamimah Theater in Tel Aviv, and then at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, where he developed a passionate interest in the guitar.
		Theo and Jac carefully explored the rich Bikel catalog and selected these 26 Yiddish theatre and folk songs from his extensive Yiddish recordings as the most eloquent evocation of the Bikel Yiddish songbook.
	www.yiddishstore.com /theodbiktrea.html (342 words)

	Theodore Bikel - Memory Alpha
		Theodore Bikel (born May 2, 1924) is a versatile character actor, born in Vienna, Austria.
		Outside of Star Trek, Bikel is probably best known for his Oscar-nominated performance as Sheriff Max Muller in the classic 1958 film, The Defiant Ones.
		Bikel has also made appearances in number of other classic, highly memorable films, including The African Queen (1951), the original Moulin Rouge (1952), The Enemy Below (1957, with Biff Elliot), My Fair Lady (1964), and The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming (1966, with Brian Keith, Andrea Dromm, Don Keefer, and Michael J. Pollard).
	memory-alpha.org /en/wiki/Theodore_Bikel (390 words)

	Classic Jewish Holiday & Shabbat Songs By Theodore Bikel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bikel, accompanying himself on guitar, sings 23 classic Jewish Holiday and Shabbat tunes in English and Yiddish.
		Theodore Bikel fans around the world will welcome this album from one the premiere Jewish recording artists.
		Classic Jewish Holiday and Shabbat Songs, presented with Theodore Bikel's characteristic verve and insight, will illuminate the Holiday and Shabbat spirit and are in themselves a cause for celebration.
	www.jewishstore.com /Music/Products.asp?ProdID=SM-SMP102 (131 words)

	Theodore Bikel News
		News about Theodore Bikel continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		Theodore Bikel and Patricia Conolly star in the South Florida premiere of Tom Cole's About Time - about seniors taking stock of their lives - beginning March 14 at the Coconut Grove Playhouse, near Miami.
		More than 2000 times, Theodore Bikel has donned the milkman's cap and took the stage to star in 'Fiddler on the Roof.' For many, Bikel is Tevye.
	www.topix.net /who/theodore-bikel?removemenu=who/theodore-bikel (274 words)

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	j. - A legend returns
		It’s a topic with which Bikel is uniquely familiar, considering he has long been one of the world’s great exponents of Jewish music.
		Bikel turns 81 this year, but aside from the full head of silver hair, it’s hard to tell.
		As a social activist Bikel has served as president of the Actors’ Equity Association (1973-82), as a board member of Amnesty International (USA) and as a member of the National Council on the Arts.
	www.jewishsf.com /content/2-0-/module/displaystory/story_id/25234/format/html/displaystory.html (699 words)

	POLISH NEWS - Art Page - THEODORE BIKEL RETURNS AS TEVYE IN BROADWAY'S TONY® AWARD-WINNING MUSICAL "FIDDLER ON THE ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		CHICAGO (April 24, 2002) - "Fiddler on the Roof," the world's most beloved musical, returns to Chicago with Theodore Bikel reprising his role as the quintessential Tevye, the humble milkman who struggles to preserve his family traditions in the face of a changing world.
		Theodore Bikel, who has played the role of Tevye more than any other actor, returns to celebrate one of the most cherished characters in theatre history.
		Bikel's other memorable stage performances include originating the role of Captain Von Trapp in the original Broadway production of "The Sound of Music," in addition to "Tonight in Samarkand," "The Rope Dancers" and "The Lark." His numerous television and film credits have garnered him an Emmy® Award, as well as an Academy® Award nomination.
	www.polishnews.com /fulltext/galery/2002/galery19.shtml (551 words)

	Bikel to Speak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Theodore Bikel is performing as part of Syracuse Symposium: Journeys on Monday, March 17 at 7:30 p.m.
		Theodore Bikel, renowned stage, film, and television actor and singer, is perhaps best known for immortalizing the role of Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, which he created in the original Broadway production and has performed more than 2,000 times.
		Bikel will perform and speak about his many personal and artistic journeys.
	www-hl.syr.edu /cas-pages/Archivenewsbikel.htm (282 words)

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