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).
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By Seth Rogovoy
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Culture The secret Jewish history of Olivia Newton-John
In 1933, her grandfather fled from Germany to escape Hitler
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Culture The secret Jewish history of Joni Mitchell
The artist once said that her song 'Both Sides Now' was inspired by a passage from a Saul Bellow novel
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Culture The secret Jewish history of Ringo Starr
The Liverpool-born drummer had a Jewish stepfather who was a big Dinah Shore fan
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In a pair of classic films, the great American actor played a 'righteous Gentile'
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Not everyone knows that one of the group's founding members was a kid named Dennis Marks
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The artist’s late-career resurgence courtesy of ‘Stranger Things’ prompts us to investigate her Jewish song catalog
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Culture The secret Jewish history of Prince
Fun fact: Half of the band on the artist's legendary 'Purple Rain' album were Jewish
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Though the stand-up comic opposed all religions, he followed in the tradition of Amos, Isaiah and Jeremiah
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