Bob Dylan

Echoes of Bob Dylan in Chelsea, New York: A journey through the soundtrack of an era

Somewhere beneath the polished surfaces and modern soundtrack, New York still carries that same hunger, movement, and endless possibility that Dylan must have felt when he first wandered downtown.

|ByMOTTI VERSES
DYLAN IN the early 1960s.
STEVE BERKOWITZ (left) and Sean Wilentz stand next to a poster of Bob Dylan’s ‘Through the Open Window, 1956-1963.’

Becoming Bob Dylan: Steve Berkowitz enhances music legend's legacy with hidden archive treasures

“If he had stopped after that performance at Carnegie Hall, he’d still be considered one of the legendary American artists. But fortunately, he didn’t,” said the 73-year-old Berkowitz

|ByDAVID BRINN
In "Boy from the North Country," Sam Sussman writes about his mother's real-life romance with Bob Dylan. (Penguin Random House; author photo by Ben Kaplan)

Sam Sussman’s novel is about his Jewish mom and the teasing possibility that Bob Dylan is his dad 

Sam Sussman’s debut novel, “Boy from the North Country,” revolves around a mystery: Was Bob Dylan, the singer and Nobel laureate, the narrator’s father?

|ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL/JTA
Reproduction of an Israeli stamp being issued to honour the Mossad intelligence agency spy Eli Cohen who was hanged in Damascus

This week in Jewish History: Eli Cohen hanged in Syria, Bob Dylan's birthday

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars – Today in Jewish History.

|BySTEVEN DRUCKER

For fun’s sake

For over 30 years, the annual springtime Jacob’s Ladder Festival has been a fixture of Anglo entertainment.

APRIL 30, 2010ByBARRY DAVIS
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Comment: Don't blame the Palestinians for Santana

We should overcome our natural inclination to chalk up the guitarists cancellation to the anti-Israel bogeyman.

FEBRUARY 1, 2010By BYDAVID BRINN
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