{"id":10584,"date":"2013-11-06T23:51:35","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T05:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=10584"},"modified":"2013-11-06T23:54:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T05:54:52","slug":"austria-honoring-vienna-native-theodore-bikel-at-kristallnacht-commemoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/austria-honoring-vienna-native-theodore-bikel-at-kristallnacht-commemoration\/","title":{"rendered":"Austria honoring Vienna native Theodore Bikel at Kristallnacht commemoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES (JTA) \u2013 Theodore Bikel, who fled the Nazi occupation of his native Vienna for prestate Israel, will be honored by the Austrian government on the 75th anniversary of Kristallnacht.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Bikel, 89, will accept the country\u2019s highest honor in the arts before giving an hourlong concert of mainly Yiddish songs interspersed with a few numbers in English and German.<\/p>\n<p>High-ranking Austrian government and cultural leaders are scheduled to attend the commemoration of Kristallnacht, the November 1938 pogrom in Germany and Austria.<\/p>\n<p>For the finale, Bikel will present the &#8220;Song of the Partisans&#8221; in Yiddish, and will ask the audience to rise as he renders the powerful words and notes of the anti-Nazi resistance during World War II, he told the Los Angeles Jewish Journal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Nazi criminals are gone, I am still here,\u201d he said during an interview in his West Los Angeles home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think I was created for this occasion,\u201d Bikel added, referring to the Vienna commemoration.<\/p>\n<p>Bikel, who gained fame as Tevye in the musical \u201cFiddler on the Roof,&#8221; is producing and starring in the documentary film \u201cTheodore Bikel in the Shoes of Sholom Aleichem.\u201d<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Austria%20honoring%20Vienna%20native%20Theodore%20Bikel%20at%20Kristallnacht%20commemoration\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,4240],"tags":[2419,8790,8795,8910,8788,4283],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10584"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10586,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10584\/revisions\/10586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}