Dylan didn\’t kvetch like your cousin Marvin or sing Israeli songs. He was steeped in old-time American music. But his Jewishness stood out — perhaps more in retrospect, especially in concert segments that are part of the new Martin Scorcese documentary on Dylan called, \”No Direction Home.\”
\”Chronicles: Volume One\” by Bob Dylan (Simon & Schuster), $24.
Toward the end of last year\’s rambling, barely coherent film \”Masked and Anonymous,\” Bob Dylan, its masked and anonymous star, spoke in voice-over one of his most direct and self-revelatory addresses. Fittingly, it was about the limits of what we are allowed to know:
The 60th birthday of Bob Dylan (né Robert Zimmerman) has created a bull market in baby-boomer nostalgia and soul-searching.
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