Bob Dylan
Life and career
Origins and musical beginnings
Robert Allen Zimmerman (Jewish name: Zushe ben Avraham)[12][13] was born on May 24, 1941, in Duluth, Minnesota,[14] and raised there and in Hibbing, Minnesota, on the Mesabi Iron Range west of Lake Superior. Research by Dylan's biographers has shown that his paternal grandparents, Zigman and Anna Zimmerman, emigrated from Odessa in Ukraine to the United States after the antisemitic pogroms of 1905.[15] Dylan himself has written (in his 2004 autobiography, Chronicles) that his paternal grandmother's maiden name was Kyrgyz and her family originated from Istanbul, although she grew up in the Kaðýzman district of Kars in Eastern Turkey. He also wrote that his paternal grandfather was from Trabzon on the Black Sea coast of Turkey.[16] His mother's grandparents, Benjamin and Lybba Edelstein, were Lithuanian Jews who arrived in America in 1902.[17]
His parents, Abram Zimmerman and Beatrice "Beatty" Stone, were part of the area's small......
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