Theodore Bikel
November, 1959
"You've heard of wandering jews?" bulky Theodore Bikel asks his concert audiences; then he jabs a thumb at his own chest, and when the ripple of amusement subsides he claws a sonorous chord from his guitar and, in a darkly resonant voice, sings a series of Jewish songs he's learned in Israel, Hungary, Germany, Poland, Russia. Although he also sings other than Jewish songs (eight LPs of all kinds cut to date), Palestine-reared Bikel specializes in the exciting, flavorful, often poignant...
