Seth Rogovoy, a contributing editor at the Forward, is the author of Bob Dylan: Prophet Mystic Poet (Scribner) and Within You Without You: Listening to George Harrison (Oxford University Press).
Seth Rogovoy
By Seth Rogovoy
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Culture Sam Sussman fashions a mother-son love story with a side helping of Bob Dylan
The author's novel has a nearly one-to-one relationship to his real life questions about his heritage.
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Culture Barbra Streisand’s brand-new duet with Bob Dylan is a whole lot different than you might think
Though Dylan and Streisand's voices may seem ill-suited to each other, the two complement each other gorgeously on 'The Very Thought of You'
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Culture Why Bruce Springsteen should stop listening to Trump and start listening to Rabbi Heschel
As Springsteen excoriates the president, his words have taken on a prophetic tone Heschel would have recognized
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Music Jill Sobule was as much a Jewish icon as a queer one
The late singer-songwriter’s music broached antisemitism, Nazi-fighting and Jesus’ dreidel-spinning
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Culture 10 duets Barbra Streisand and Bob Dylan should have chosen for her upcoming album
Dylan and Streisand are joining forces for 'The Very Thought of You,' but the choices on this playlist might have been better
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Music In 1964, when he was just 23, Bob Dylan wrote the prophetic anthem that encapsulates Trump’s America
Decrying a world characterized by materialism, violence and blind conformity, Dylan echoed the warnings of King Solomon
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Music ‘A Complete Unknown’ has Dylan-mania sweeping the country — is that a good thing?
Some longtime fans bristle as legions of new fans embrace a Hollywood version of rock 'n' roll's greatest poet
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Music 50 years later, Bob Dylan’s ‘Blood on the Tracks’ remains the standard by which all albums are measured
In 1975, Dylan introduced a whole new way of songwriting
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