Leonard Cohen
Leonard Norman Cohen, CC GOQ is a Canadian singer, songwriter, poet and novelist. His work has explored religion, politics, isolation, sexuality, and personal relationships. Cohen has been inducted into both the Canadian Music Hall of Fame and the Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame as well as the American Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He is also a Companion of the Order of Canada, the nations highest civilian honor. In 2011, Cohen received a Princess of Asturias Awards for literature.
Cohen was born onSeptember 1934 in Westmount, Quebec, an Englishspeaking area of Montreal, into a middleclass Jewish family. His mother, Marsha Klonitsky, was the daughter of a Talmudic writer, Rabbi Solomon KlonitskyKline, of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry. His paternal grandfather, whose family had emigrated from Poland, was Lyon Cohen, founding president of the Canadian Jewish Congress. His father, Nathan Cohen, who owned a substantial clothing store, died when Cohen wasyears old. On the topic of being a Kohen, Cohen has said that I had a very Messianic childhood. He told Richard Goldstein in 1967, I was told I was a descendant of Aaron, the high priest.
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