Seth Rogovoy
By Seth Rogovoy
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Music The secret Jewish history of The Who
Editor’s Note: In honor of Pete Townshend’s 77th birthday, we revisit his band’s Jewish history that we first looked into in 2015. The Who, the English rock group, is in the midst of yet another tour, one that they say may be their last — a claim they have been making since at least 1982….
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Culture As the new Bob Dylan Center opens in Tulsa, a new pop culture mecca is born
TULSA, Okla. – Duluth native Laura Whitney and her husband, Patrick Eliason, drove 835 miles — just over 12 hours — to be in Tulsa this past weekend for the opening of the new Bob Dylan Center and Archive. Whitney counts herself as a lifelong Dylan fan. “I was reading his lyrics in my junior…
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Culture Why are Bob Dylan’s archives in Tulsa?
Why Tulsa? To be more precise: Why is the new Bob Dylan Center –which opens Tuesday, May 10, and will be home to the Nobel Prize laureate’s archive as well as gallery space that will perpetually play host to 16 revolving exhibitions based on the archive’s holdings — located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, of all places?…
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Culture On Al Pacino’s 82nd birthday, his secret Jewish history
Is Al Pacino one of the great Jewish actors of our time? Hear me out. While best known for portraying characters of Italian and Latino descent – think Michael Corleone of “The Godfather” films, Carlito Brigante of “Carlito’s Way,” and Tony Montana of “Scarface,” Pacino has an arm’s-length resumé of portraying Jews in film and…
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Culture Two hundred artworks later, has Bob Dylan finally painted his masterpiece?
Does Bob Dylan write his songs in black and white or in color? This is just one question of many that occur to a viewer after spending a few hours with the 200-odd visual artworks that comprise “Bob Dylan Retrospectrum,” on exhibit through April 17 at the Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum on the…
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Culture A Yiddish performance so versatile, it spans from ‘Mauthausen’ to Elvis Presley
With her latest project, “The Ballad of Mauthausen,” Dutch Yiddish singer Niki Jacobs has pulled off the seemingly impossible: She has recast the song cycle of the same name by Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis and poet Iakovos Kambanellis as an avant-garde Yiddish cantata that remains true to the spirit of the original while extracting new…
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Culture The secret Jewish history of Carson McCullers
About one-third of the way through Suzanne Vega’s terrific new one-woman film, “Lover, Beloved,” about the life of great 20th-century American writer Carson McCullers, the folk-pop singer-songwriter – playing McCullers in a tour de force of acting (and singing) – says, as McCullers, “I wanted to write about a Jew. You see, because, we are…
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Culture The 33 greatest Jewish pop songs of all time (that we left off our list)
Much as we expected when we published “The 150 greatest Jewish pop songs of all time” on January 31, 2022, readers responded with their likes, dislikes, and suggestions for songs that did not make the list. Attendees at the Zoom event we hosted about the list offered their opinions, and at our invitation, readers sent…
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