Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In his new book about Bob Dylan, pictured here in 1974, Harry Freedman implies that elements of the singer's Jewishness remained ...

One of the most challenging things about any biography of Bob Dylan is piercing the reticence the legendary singer and songwriter has displayed in talking about his roots. In addition to that, ...

What could possibly justify another Bob Dylan biography? The American troubadour has been endlessly chronicled in books and film. Now Princeton professor and Dylan fanboy Sean Wilentz wants his say.

That he not busy being born / Is busy dying.” If asked to sum up Bob Dylan’s career using his own lyrics, one could do far worse than clipping the above line from 1965’s Bringing It All Back Home.

The word “probably” gets a major workout in “Bob Dylan: Jewish Roots, American Soil,” Harry Freedman’s new book made of equal parts passion and conjecture. The book’s central premise, or one of them, ...