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That Land Is Your Land
By Paul Farhi Arlo Guthrie Arlo Guthrie remembers his boyhood Hebrew tutor as "a sweet guy, a nice guy." Every
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Essays
The long reads — Jewish rock & roll, taken seriously and not.
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Talmud
By Mark Caro (Reprinted with permission from Passing Stone magazine) It’s Saturday night at the packed Mogen David Center, and the
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Talkin' Hava Nagilah Blues
By Seth Rogovoy Frank Driggs Collection/ Hulton Archives/ Getty Images For Bob Dylan fans, reading the Bible—the original, not the sequel—
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Super Session Man
By Bob Cook "Paul Stanley once told me that if I didn’t have any chutzpah, I wouldn’t have played
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Subterranean Homeland Blues
By Jeffrey Goldberg Do you remember the first time you felt Jewish anger? Not the inchoate, pre-adolescent, Patrick-Malone-called-me-
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Rock, Radio, Riot
By Marc Fisher Alan Freed wasn’t the first white guy to play race records on the radio. That honor belongs to
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Riffed Off
By Dave McKenna Photo courtesy Bernice Pearl. Bernice Pearl thinks "Stairway to Heaven" is the "greatest rock and roll
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Raising Hell
By Eli Attie Photo courtesy Roberta Bayley Let's begin with a disclaimer: Richard Hell is only half-Jewish. His mother
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Nudie and the Technicolor Jacket
By Eddie Dean To any who would deny the unholy allure of the Nudie suit, consider the case of Little Jimmy Dickens.
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His Sharona
By John Kelly Photo courtesy of Capitol Records. Doug Fieger is a mensch. It doesn’t matter if I believe that or
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Heavy Shtetl
By Steve Almond Britny Fox promotional postcard, 1991. I spent a thousand nights as a rock critic in El Paso, Texas, which
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Funny, He Didn't Look Jewish
By Wil Haygood In 1954, as a nightclub star on the brink of Hollywood stardom, Sammy Davis, Jr. became a Jew. The