That's How the Light Gets In Remembering Leonard Cohen
Posted: January 21st, 2024, 12:53 pm
https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=go ... d=9a24e777In June 1964, Leonard Cohen...appeared on a panel to discuss the future of Judaism at Montreal's Jewish Public Library. An essential responsibility of artists, Cohen believed, was to act as social provocateurs, to "hold up a mirror to the particular kind of mindless chaos in which we endure." Truth had to be spoken, however discomfiting it might be.