For 15 minutes in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist, audiences are confronted with a still image. Adrien Brody, as immigrant ...
Born Robert Allen Zimmerman, in Minnesota, Dylan has the Hebrew name Shabtai (derived from the word Shabbat) Zisl (meaning sweet) ben Avraham, and was bar mitzvahed on May 22, 1954. He attended cheder ...
The New York Times columnist and the singer/songwriter were born Jewish and have taken deep dives into Christianity.
It is not as if Dylan is the only Jewish character in this film. “A Complete Unknown” came pretty close to a minyan: Bob; his ...
is that Dylan is a lot more conventionally "marketable" than Zimmerman, and doesn't necessarily indicate that the person behind the name is Jewish. While Bob has never said that explicitly ...
These are all Jewish people or institutions. Taken together, and there are a lot more examples, it’s clear that Jewish people have had a titanic influence on American culture. This is something ...
But when he dies, I am confident that Jewish outlets like ours will eulogize him as a Jew. As “A Complete Unknown” tries to make clear, the “real” Bob Dylan is impossible to pin down.
I can only wonder what Bunkhars thought of Brooks’ essay. Bob Dylan’s Jewish fans take comfort in his trips to Israel since his Gospels phase. He’s done fundraisers for Chabad and showed up ...