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 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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Culture The secret Jewish history of Teddy Roosevelt
Roosevelt was the first president to appoint a Jew to a Cabinet position
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Music The 150 greatest Jewish pop songs of all time
Inspired in part by all the Jewish artists on Rolling Stone’s list of the 500 Greatest Songs, the Forward decided it was time to rank the best Jewish pop songs of all time. You can find the whole list and accompanying essays here. After Rolling Stone magazine published its list of the 500 Greatest Albums…
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Culture LISTEN: The greatest Jewish pop songs (a curated Apple playlist)
We cannot properly publish a list of the 150 Greatest Jewish Pop Songs of All Time without also providing a convenient playlist for your listening enjoyment. And so we scoured the deep recesses of Apple Music to create a curated, four-and-a-half-hour, 59-song playlist featuring a representative selection of the complete Top 150. All you have…
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Culture In Bob Dylan’s mysterious 1975 masterpiece, is he referencing the Talmud?
Dozens of Dylan songs can be considered Jewish — and 'Idiot Wind' more than most.
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Culture Does ‘A Christmas Carol’ have an antisemitic message or a Jewish humanist one?
The name Ebenezer is Hebrew, deriving from the phrase eben ha-ezer, meaning “stone of the help”
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Culture That time Tom Waits taught Bob Dylan how to curse in Yiddish
Tom Waits, whose colorful career in music and entertainment began around 1970, turns 72 today Dec. 7. While he may not be as prolific as he once was as a recording artist, Waits continues to perform and record, and he still shows up in feature films like “Licorice Pizza,” the new Paul Thomas Anderson film…
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