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Podcast: Honestly with Bari Weiss
Episode: Who By Fire: Why Leonard Cohen Ran Toward War
Description: 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 he went to the front. What we know is that in the months that followed, he would write “Who By Fire.” Five dec...