In 'The Singer Sisters,' a Jewish folk music family makes it big

(New York Jewish Week) - Some of the most iconic American folk singers of the 1960s and '70s were Jewish: Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, "Mama Cass" Elliot.

But what if there had been an entire Jewish family of folk royalty, whose descendants became stars of their own respective eras?

In her debut novel "The Singer Sisters," which was published on Tuesday, writer and native New Yorker Sarah Seltzer dreams up this fantasy and fills it with rock music history, family drama and lots of Yiddishkeit.

Singer is a common Jewish surname, but the novel's titular sisters are actually named Judie and Sylvia Zing...