Robert Zimmerman arrived in New York in 1961 as a complete unknown, already using the name he would legally adopt the next year. Few realised he was, like so many before him, concealing his Jewish identity — nor that as Bob Dylan he would, 65 years later, be celebrated and touring globally. Harry Freedman, author of Leonard Cohen: The Mystical Roots of Genius, argues Dylan’s Jewish ancestry shaped him as much as Woody Guthrie and Beat poetry. He joins Mark Malcomson to explore the groundbreaking early years of the only musician to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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