Seth Rogovoy

SETH ROGOVOY is a writer, award-winning critic, book author, lecturer, teacher, and radio commentator.

He is the author of BOB DYLAN: Prophet, Mystic, Poet (Scribner, November 2009), a full-length analysis of Bob Dylan’s life and work, and THE ESSENTIAL KLEZMER: A Music Lover’s Guide to Jewish Roots and Soul Music (Algonquin Books, 2000), the all-time bestselling guide to klezmer music.

Termed “American Jewry’s greatest Dylan scholar” by Religion News Service, for over a quarter century, Seth’s work has appeared in the English-language national Jewish newsweekly, the Forward, to which Seth is a contributing editor.

Seth is editor and publisher of The Rogovoy Report – an online magazine of cultural and critical news and observations — and BerkshireDaily — a five-day a week e-newsletter aggregating news, features, and commentary from around the corner and around the globe.

Seth also does cultural, editorial and marketing consulting. He is the programming consultant for the Yiddish Book Center in Amherst, Mass., where he curates the center’s the annual YIDSTOCK: Festival of New Yiddish Music, which debuted in summer 2012, and which continues under his artistic direction.

Seth lives in Hudson, N.Y., and New York City.