Re: Great Jewish Rock Stars

[Alex J. Lubet <lubet001...>]

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from jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org:
> 
>       Does anyone have the scoop on Dick Dale?  Personally I don't think
> that he's Jewish, but he has recordings of Miserlou (which I've heard in
> Yiddish, Greek, and Armenian; so the history of the song is sketchy) and
> Hava Nagila.  
>       P.S. Althongh Leonard Cohen is not an observant Jew he has a
> number of songs that may be classified as "Jewish ."  i.e. The Story of
> Isaac, The Partisan, The Butcher, If it be Your Will, Hallelujah, and
> perhaps The Lost Canadian, which is a distant relative to the anti-Semetic
> lore of the Wandering Jew. He applies much poetic license to his work, 
> but retains threads of Jewish history in his songs.  I've heard that
> Cohen's paternal grandfather was the chief Rabbi of Montreal.
>       P.P.S. This weekend (24-25 May) the Kabalas will perform in Los
> Angeles.  They are a great band, a sort of They Might Be Giants meets
> Naftali Brandwein.  I strongly recomend this concert.
> 
> Anthony Souza
> President, Hillel
> California State University, Fresno
> 
> (209) 432-1770
> 
> 5739 N. Cedar #202
> Fresno, CA 93710
> 
> .  Dick Dale is Lebanese.


Alex Lubet, Ph. D.
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Adjunct Professor of American Studies
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