"Who by Fire"- by Leonard Cohen
- Annemeet Hasidi-van Der Leij
- Nov 11, 2016
- 1 min read
This solemn song is based on a melody for the Hebrew prayer "Unetanneh Tokef," chanted on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, when the Book of Life is opened to reveal who will die and by what means.Leonard Cohen wrote the song in 1974, after he had been in Israel during the Yom Kippur war of 1973.
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