Tradition holds that Abraham is the father of the Jewish people. He came from Ur-Kasdim, in Western Asia.

He was born in Ur Kasdim. He moved to Canaan, Israel, where he spent most of his life. He lived between 2000 BC and 1500 BC.

Abram, whose name was later changed to Abraham, was born and raised in a place

called "Ur Kasdim" in the Hebrew Bible and translated to English as "Ur of the Chaldees".

Some archaeologists identify it with the modern city of Ur in Iraq.

Abraham was born in Ur Kaśdim. For a discussion of where in Eurasia this is, see http://www.answers.com/topic/ur-kasdim. See http://www.answers.com/topic/abraham for his migration to the Land of Canaan (Israel) as well as a visit to Egypt.

According to the account in Genesis, the earliest ancestors of a population still

identifiable in modern times, who migrated from elsewhere to what is now Israel,

were Abraham and his family, who migrated from "Ur Kasdim" or "Ur of the Chaldees",

thought to be perhaps identified with the city of Ur in modern Iraq.