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Who By Fire: Why Leonard Cohen Ran Toward War
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Who By Fire: Why Leonard Cohen Ran Toward War
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In 1973, Leonard Cohen announced he was done with music for good. The same year, in October, war broke out in Israel.

The Yom Kippur War would become the bloodiest in Israel’s young history—and Cohen was there to witness it. As the war broke out, he left his home on the Greek island of Hydra to fly into the warzone.

Leonard Cohen never said much about why…

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