Bob Dylan was born on May 24, 1941, in St. Mary’s Hospital in Duluth, Minnesota, to Robert Allen Zimmerman and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota, on the Mesabi Range west of Lake Superior. Dylan’s paternal grandparents, Anna Kirghiz and Zigman Zimmerman, immigrated to the United States from Odesa in the Russian Empire (now Ukraine) following the pogroms against Jews in 1905.
Florence and Ben Stone, his maternal grandparents, were Lithuanian Jews who immigrated to the United States in 1902. Dylan wrote in his autobiography, Chronicles: Volume One, that his paternal grandmother’s family was from the Kazman district of Kars Province in northeastern Turkey.
What was Bob Dylan’s cause of death?
The legendary musician was discovered dead outside his hotel room in Oaxaca, Mexico. He was 71.
Dylan’s parents, Abram Zimmerman and Beatrice “Beatty” Stone were members of a small, close-knit Jewish community.
They lived in Duluth until Dylan was six years old when his father contracted polio and the family moved to Dylan’s mother’s hometown of Hibbing, where his father and paternal uncles ran a furniture and appliance store.
He grew up listening to the radio, first blues and country stations from Shreveport, Louisiana, and later, as a teenager, rock and roll.
