Three Jewish Nobel laureates so far for 2016

ANT KATZ

Dylan, 75, was recognised for “having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”, the Swedish Academy, which is responsible for choosing the Nobel laureates in literature, announced on Thursday.

Born Robert Allen Zimmerman and raised Jewish in Minnesota, Dylan wrote some of the most influential and well-known songs of the 1960s. His hits include “Blowin’ in the Wind”, “Like a Rolling Stone” and “Times They Are a-Changin’.”

RIGHT: Bob Dylan performing at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco, March 23, 1975. (Alvan Meyerowitz/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Bob Dylan experimented with diverse religions over the years – but returned to his faith with a bang as a father and is today very involved in both religious and communal activity both in the US and in Israel.

Dylan is the first American to receive the prize in more than 20 years; novelist Toni Morrison won in 1993. He will receive his prize – worth over R13 million at today’s exchange rates – in Stockholm on December 10 which is Alfred Nobel’s birthday.

Dylan joins two other already-announced 2016 Jewish recipients, J Michael Kosterlitz (physics) and Oliver Hart (economics).

See Jewish Nobel statistics below picture….

• At least 194 Jews and people of Jewish ancestry have been awarded the Nobel Prize, accounting for 23 per cent of all individual recipients worldwide between 1901 and 2014 and constituting 36 per cent of all US recipients during the same period    -WIKIPEDIA
• Jews and organisations primarily started by Jews have been awarded 25 pe rcent of all Nobel Prizes and 27 per cent of those in the scientific research fields since the year 2000   -JINFO.org
• Between 1901 and 2013, the Nobel Prize was awarded to 855 laureates and at least 22 per cent of them have been Jewish   -JEWISHVIRTUALLIBRARY.org