LEONARD COHEN
September 2014
Eighty years old this month, the Canadian singer and songwriter has always been proud to be a Jew first and last — as his songs reveal
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December 2012
Sylvie Simmons's biography of Leonard Cohen uncovers the importance of his Jewish identity in understanding the troubadour's great output
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