Dust Bowls and Jewish Souls: Another Side of Woody Guthrie

Woody Guthrie, famous Dust Bowl balladeer who wrote "This Land Is Your Land," shares far more with blintzes, knishes and Hanukkah songs than imaginable. His name evokes 1930s Dust Bowl refugees and migrant families fleeing soil-ravaged farms, plus lyrics "This land is your land, this land is my land. From California to the New York Island." Beyond Oklahoma hills of his youth, wanderings bring him to 1940s New York City. He enters a vibrant Jewish culture personally and professionally, wholeheartedly embraces it, and it deeply influences his life and music.