Limmud La-ad Presents
BLUE SUEDE JEWS: Jews in the Golden Age of Rock'n'Roll
On November 15, rock music author and historian Richie Unterberger presents "Blue Suede Jews: Jews in the Golden Age of Rock'n'Roll." Since the beginning of rock music, Jews have played key roles in its evolution as performers and songwriters. Unterberger will show and discuss rare vintage film clips of major Jewish rock performers of the 1960s and 1970s such as Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Carole King, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Lesley Gore, Manfred Mann, original Fleetwood Mac leader Peter Green, and others.
ABOUT THE PRESENTER: Richie Unterberger is the author of numerous rock music history books, including volumes on the Who, Bob Marley, and 1960s folk-rock. His book The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film won a 2007 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. His coffee table book San Francisco: Portrait of a City, published by Taschen in 2022, presents and describes 500 pages of photos of the city from 1850 to 2020. His latest book, Do What You Fear Most: The History of the Velvet Underground, was published by Omnibus Press in spring 2026. He teaches non-credit adult education courses on rock music history at several Bay Area colleges, including Santa Clara University.
FREE & OPEN TO ALL
