Biggest Bob Dylan Memorabilia For Sale

By Debra Nussbaum Cohen October 12, 2010

Bob Dylan fans have a new piece of memorabilia to consider buying: the building which housed the synagogue in which 13-year-old Bobby Zimmerman – who was called to the Torah as Shabtai Zisel ben Avraham – celebrated his bar mitzvah, back in 1954.

The Hibbing, Minn. building was converted from a synagogue to an apartment building back in the 1980s. According to this Jerusalem Post article, it was purchased by Brenda Shafer-Pellinen and her husband in 2001. They planned to turn it into a bed-and-breakfast, but their plans fell through.

Now they’ve put it on the market for just $119,000, and are hoping that the connection to Hibbing’s most famous son will help sell it.

Dylan fans, start your checkbooks.

Debra Nussbaum Cohen is an award-winning journalist and the author of Celebrating Your New Jewish Daughter: Creating Jewish Ways to Welcome Baby Girls into the Covenant. Follow her on Instagram @debranc or email her at [email protected].

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