Seth Rogovoy, a contributing editor at The Forward, is the author of Bob Dylan: Prophet Mystic Poet (Scribner) and the recently-published Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison (Oxford Univ. Press).
Seth Rogovoy
By Seth Rogovoy
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Culture The crucial Bob Dylan question that ‘A Complete Unknown’ fails to answer
A ballad of a thin biopic starring Timothée Chalamet as Dylan
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Culture One of Bob Dylan’s most Jewish songs is VP candidate Tim Walz’s favorite
'Forever Young' may be read as a parent's blessing to a child, but there's also a deep Jewish story behind it
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Film & TV Little is revealed in new teaser for upcoming Bob Dylan biopic
The teaser for 'A Complete Unknown' might hype up viewers but gives away little of substance about the film
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Culture That time Bob Dylan played Elijah the prophet in an underrated Western — and did a better job than you might think
Sam Peckinpah's 1973 'Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid' is getting another look with the release of a new DVD box set
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Music How a Jewish kid named Lou Reed left ‘the most boring place on earth’ to become ‘King of New York’
The career of the legendary founder of the Velvet Underground was filled with Jewish references and collaborators
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Culture Why Paul McCartney should be known as ‘the Jewish Beatle’
The secret Jewish history of Paul McCartney
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Film & TV The secret Jewish history of Dick Van Dyke
The veteran comic actor's eponymous TV show was the brainchild of Carl Reiner and bears a passing resemblance to 'Seinfeld'
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Music She ain’t no Dylan Thomas or Patti Smith, this ain’t her ‘Blood on the Tracks,’ but Taylor Swift certainly ain’t no ‘modern idiot’ either
On her latest album, Swift wrestles biblically with the plight of being a tortured poet
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