{"id":23427,"date":"2022-03-27T19:56:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T17:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.leonardcohen.de\/?p=23427"},"modified":"2022-03-27T20:02:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T18:02:08","slug":"kw-13-2022-march-29-at-730-pm-pt-at-the-skirball-in-la-matti-will-be-in-conversation-with-rabbi-david-wolpe-and-april-4-at-6pm-et-at-the-streicker-center-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leonardcohen.de\/?p=23427","title":{"rendered":"KW-13-2022: WHO BY FIRE: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai – March 29 at 7:30 pm PT at the Skirball in LA, Matti will be in conversation with Rabbi David Wolpe, and April 4 at 6pm ET at the Streicker Center in NYC,"},"content":{"rendered":"
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WHO BY FIRE: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai<\/b> (Spiegel & Grau; April 5) by Matti Friedman is the little-known story of Leonard Cohen’s concert tour to the front lines of the Yom Kippur War, including never-before-seen selections from an unfinished manuscript by Cohen and rare photographs.<\/span><\/div>\n
Spiegel & Grau<\/a> publishing is excited to share with Leonard Cohens fans a special book trailer about a book which will surely be of interest to you!<\/span><\/div>\n
Matti Friedman, the author, also has two events coming up which this Leonard Cohen community can attend: March 29 at 7:30 pm PT at the Skirball<\/a> in LA, Matti will be in conversation with Rabbi David Wolpe, and April 4 at 6pm ET at the Streicker Center<\/a> in NYC, Matti will be in conversation with Abigail Pogrebin with a special performance of Cohen\u2019s songs by Cantor Gideon Zelermyer, known for his backing vocals on Cohen\u2019s \u201cYou Want It Darker.\u201d Both events can be attended virtually or in-person.<\/span><\/div>\n
We sincerely hope you will enjoy this inspiring and moving Leonard Cohen story.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The little-known story of Leonard Cohen’s concert tour to the front lines of the Yom Kippur War, including never-before-seen selections from an unfinished manuscript by Cohen and rare photographs
\nIn October 1973, the poet and singer Leonard Cohen?thirty-nine years old, famous, unhappy, and at a creative dead end?traveled from his home on the Greek island of Hydra to the chaos and bloodshed of the Sinai desert when Egypt attacked Israel on the Jewish high holiday of Yom Kippur. Moving around the front with a guitar and a group of local musicians, Cohen met hundreds of young soldiers, men and women at the worst moment of their lives. Those who survived never forgot the experience. And the war transformed Cohen. He had announced that he was abandoning his music career, but he instead returned to Hydra and to his family, had a second child, and released one of the best albums of his career. In Who by Fire, journalist Matti Friedman gives us a riveting account of those weeks in the Sinai, drawing on Cohen’s previously unpublished writing and original reporting to create a kaleidoscopic depiction of a harrowing, formative moment for both a young country at war and a singer at a crossroads.<\/div>\n
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MATTI FRIEDMAN is an award-winning journalist and author. Born in Toronto and based in Jerusalem, his work has appeared regularly in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Tablet, and elsewhere. Friedman’s last book, Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel, won the 2019 Natan Prize and the Canadian Jewish Book Award for history. Pumpkinflowers: A Soldier’s Story of a Forgotten War was chosen in 2016 as a New York Times Notable Book and one of Amazon’s 10 best books of the year. His first book, The Aleppo Codex, won the 2014 Sami Rohr Prize and the ALA’s Sophie Brody Medal.<\/p>\n

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