Death of a Lady’s Man (book) (Cohen), 102, 201
de Falla, Manuel, 118
de Gaulle, Charles, 159
De Mornay, Rebecca, 15, 224, 228
Densmore, John, 152, 154
De Palma, Brian, 227–28
“Desolation Row” (Dylan), 24
“Diamonds in the Mine” (Cohen), 36, 167
“Don’t Go Home with Your Hard On” (Cohen), 196
Doors, 20, 29–30, 149–52, 154–55, 172, 220–21
Doors, The (film), 149–50
“Dress Rehearsal Rag” (Cohen), 126
“Drive My Car” (Beatles), 122
Dudek, Louis, 58–59, 62, 114
Dylan, Bob, 24, 72, 114–17, 126, 129–30, 135–40, 143–49, 210–11
electric guitar adopted by, 22, 123
Jewish heritage of, 114, 116–17
LC and, 114–15, 121, 143, 145–46, 167, 196, 211
song lyrics of, 115, 120, 136, 146
Dylan, Sara, 143, 145
“Early Morning at Mt. Baldy” (Cohen), 231
East Afton Farm, 22–27
Egypt, 44–45, 183
Eichmann, Adolf, 93–94, 99
Eichmann in Jerusalem (Arendt), 93–94
Ekering, Ted, 227–28
“Eleanor Rigby” (Beatles), 122–23
Eleusinian Mysteries ceremonies, 124
El Greco, 43
Elijah, 192
Eliot, George, 46
Eliot, T. S., 36, 56, 212, 214
Elliott, Ramblin’ Jack, 144
Elrod, Suzanne, 156, 185, 195
relationship of LC and, 188, 193, 201
Emerson, Keith, 172–74
Emerson, Lake & Palmer, 28, 173–74
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 56, 57, 83, 101
Energy of Slaves, The (Cohen), 102, 103
England, 43, 89, 90, 168–70
Erlich, Nancy, 158
Evening Standard (London), 124
“Everybody Knows” (Cohen), 221
“Everyday People” (Sly and the Family Stone), 172
Falcon, Operation, 97–98
“Famous Blue Raincoat” (Cohen), 165, 217–18
Famous Blue Raincoat (Warnes), 217–18
Farber, Manny, 152–53
Farr, Gary, 22
Farr, Rikki, 19–31
Farr, Tommy, 24
Farren, Mick, 19–21, 23–24, 29
fascism, 55, 161
Favorite Game, The (Cohen), 105–8
5th Dimension, 172
“Field Commander Cohen” (Cohen), 190–91
“Fingerprints” (Cohen), 197
Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 223
“First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, The” (Flack), 172
“First We Take Manhattan” (Cohen), 218
First Zionist Congress of 1897, 47
“Five to One” (Doors), 155
Flack, Roberta, 172
flamenco music, 118, 133
Flaubert, Gustave, 92
Flowers for Hitler (Cohen), 13, 94–95, 99, 103, 127, 227
folk music, 21, 67, 138, 146, 188
Jewish, 116, 179, 180
Québécois, 233
Spanish, 118
Folsom Prison, 162
Four Tops, 122
France, 46, 158–60
Franklin, Aretha, 129
Freud, Sigmund, 46–47
Frost, David, 20
Frye, Northrop, 56
Fulford, Robert, 109
Furey, Lewis, 188
Future, The (Cohen), 226–27, 228, 232
Galei Zahal, 239
García Lorca, Federico, 54–55, 60, 69, 72, 96, 119, 220
duende (“deep song”) of, 54, 59, 104, 118, 237
murder of, 55
Gaslight Cafe, 116
Gemara, 219
Genet, Jean, 61
Germany, Nazi, 58, 81
Ginsberg, Allen, 61, 70, 144, 196
Globe and Mail (Toronto), 109
Goebbels, Joseph, 95–96, 168
Goering, Hermann, 96
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 54
“Going Home” (Cohen), 245–46
Goldstein, Richard, 141
Governor General’s Award (Canada), 156
Greece, 79, 89–92, 202
ancient, 58
fascist regime in, 161
Grossman, Albert, 126
Guardian (London), 106
Guide for the Perplexed, The (Maimonides), 48
Gustafson, Ralph, 114
Guthrie, Woody, 138, 144
Haggadah, 126
halacha, 48
“Hallelujah” (Cohen), 213–15, 217, 228, 240–41, 243
composing of, 137
cover versions of, 15, 214
in film sound tracks, 15
lyrics of, 213–14
Hammond, John, 129–32
Han Dynasty, 119
“Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, A” (Dylan), 144
Harrelson, Woody, 227–28
Harrison, George, 123, 195, 210
Havana, 96–100
“Hava Nagila,” 116
Havelock, Eric, 104
Headlam, Bruce, 14
Hebrews, ancient, 85
Hells Angels, 22
Hemingway, Ernest, 187
Henahan, Donal, 140
Henderson Hospital, 162–63
Hendrix, Jimi, 15, 20, 153–54, 194
death of, 30, 156
Herzl summer camp, 116
Heschel, Abraham Joshua, 116
“Hevenu Shalom Aleichem,” 179, 180
“Hey, That’s No Way to Say Goodbye” (Cohen), 129, 180, 243
“Hey Joe” (Hendrix), 194
Higgins, Kathleen Marie, 151
Highway 61 Revisited (Dylan), 143
Hitler, Adolf, 82, 197
Hitleriad, The (Klein), 58
“Hitler the Brain-Mole” (Cohen), 95–96
Holiday, Billie, 129
Hollywood Reporter, 206
Holocaust, 85, 93–94, 216
Homer, 104
Howe, Irving, 93–94
Howl (Ginsberg), 70
“Hurricane” (Dylan), 136
Hussein, King of Jordan, 183
Hydra, 14, 32, 77, 79, 89–92, 99, 104, 109, 117, 120, 161, 185, 236
“I and I” (Dylan), 137
“I Bury My Girlfriend” (Cohen), 209–10
“I Came So Far for Beauty” (Cohen), 202
“If It Be Your Will” (Cohen), 211–12
Ihlen, Axel, 91–92, 120
Ihlen, Marianne, 91–92, 117, 120, 163
Iliad, The (Homer), 104
Imagine (Lennon), 195
I’m Your Fan, 226
I’m Your Man (Cohen), 218–20, 228
Infidels (Dylan), 116, 211
“In My Life” (Beatles), 122
In My Life (Collins), 126
Isaiah (prophet), 42, 49–50, 61, 101, 116, 128, 219
Isle of Wight music festival (1970), 19–37
documentary of, 35
LC’s appearance at, 31–37, 165
rowdyism and chaos at, 21–31, 158, 172
Israel, 176–81, 183–89, 239–45
founding of, 80
Israeli Defense Forces, 183–88
Israelites, 44
“It Ain’t Me, Babe” (Dylan), 144
“I Tried to Leave You” (Cohen), 243
Jagger, Mick, 16
James, Henry, 233
Jefferson Airplane, 153
Jensen, Axel, 91
Jerome, Saint, 43
Jerry, Mungo, 29
Jerusalem, 93, 176, 184
Binyanei Ha’Uma center in, 178–81
Hebrew temple in, 118
Jesus Christ, 60, 61, 81, 124, 126, 127, 150, 207, 213
Jethro Tull, 175
Jews:
assimilation of, 44, 45, 46
in Canada, 39–44, 47–51, 57–87
as chosen people, 44–45, 106, 148
diaspora of,
45, 47
Emancipation of, 46–47, 48
Hungarian, 121
poetry of, 57–73
secular, 47, 76
wandering, 76, 90
see also Judaism
Joel, Billy, 194, 226
John, Elton, 194, 226
Johnston, Bob, 31–33, 146–47, 157, 160, 162, 168, 179–80
Joplin, Janis, 134–35, 153, 156, 172, 199
Joshu Sasaki, Kyozan “Roshi,” 205–7, 228–30, 232
Joyce, James, 109–10, 223, 230–31
Judaism, 16, 17, 40–51, 204
bar mitzvahs and weddings in, 75, 132
Conservative, 42–43
custom and law in, 45, 48
doctrine of the messiah and Promised Land in, 45–47, 81, 147, 219
Hasidic, 46
High Holidays of, 75, 126, 176, 183
mysticism in, 48–49, 76
prayer in, 125, 147–48, 176, 191–93, 211–12, 244
prophets of, 42, 49–50, 58, 61, 116, 128, 192, 219, 244
rabbinic, 40, 47, 135, 219
spiritual questions of, 44–45, 48, 206
synagogues and Hebrew schools of, 41–43, 49–50, 85, 86, 216
theology of, 17, 42, 44–50, 191–92
ultra-Orthodox, 241
see also Jews
Judas Jump, 21
Jung, Carl Gustav, 200–201
kabbalah, 48, 76, 178, 227
Kafka, Franz, 40
Keats, John, 69
Kennedy, John F., 97
Kennedy, Robert F., assassination of, 173
Kent State University shootings, 157
Kerensky, Aleksandr, 95
Kerouac, Jack, 70
Kettle of Fish, 143
“Killer Queen” (Queen), 194
Kilmer, Val, 149–50
Kiss, 194
Klein, Abraham Moses, 57–60, 79–85, 233
LC’s lecture on, 82–87
parliamentary campaign of, 80, 85
works of, 80–82, 83, 85
Klinitsky-Klein, Solomon (grandfather), 42–44, 50, 68, 116
Koestler, Arthur, 128
Kohanim, 244
Kory, Robert, 234–35
Krieger, Robby, 152, 154, 155
Kristofferson, Kris, 21, 28–29, 33
Kupferberg, Tuli, 61
Lake, Greg, 173–74
Larsen, Neil, 237
“Last Year’s Man” (Cohen), 166–67
Layton, Irving, 57–61, 72–73, 78–79, 106–7, 114, 131
Lennon, John, 15, 122–24, 128, 195, 210
Lerner, Murray, 35–36
Let It Be (Beatles), 195, 197
“Let’s Loot the Supermarket” (Deviants) 20
Let Us Compare Mythologies (Cohen), 60, 62, 95, 233
Levi, Oshik, 184–86
Levi, Primo, 94
Levine, Larry, 198
Lexicon of Hebrew Homonyms (Klinitsky-Klein), 42
“Light My Fire” (Doors), 152–53, 154
“Like a Rolling Stone” (Dylan), 137
Lissauer, John, 188–90, 192, 194, 209, 211, 213–14
Lithuania, 43, 44
London, 24, 78, 89, 162, 174
Notting Hill, 30
Royal Albert Hall, 157–58
underground cultural scene in, 20
“Loneliness and History” (Cohen), 82–87
“Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll, The” (Dylan), 136
Los Angeles Times, 224
“Lover, Lover, Lover” (Cohen), 186, 189
Lowell, Robert, 127–28
Lynch, Kelley, LC’s life savings stolen by, 234–36
Machat, Martin, 179, 194
Maimonides, Moses, 48–50
Manzarek, Ray, 150, 152, 154, 173
Maoists, 160, 172
Marcus, Greil, 152–53, 220–21
“Marita Please Find Me, I Am Almost 30” (Cohen), 79
Martin, Mary, 126, 129
Marxism, 47
Mas, Javier, 237
“Masters of War” (Dylan), 116, 137
“Master Song” (Cohen), 129
Maupassant, Guy de, 63
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (film), 227
McCarthy, Mary, 94
McCartney, Paul, 15, 122, 210
McClelland, Jack, 98, 104–5, 156
McGilliad, 58
McGill University, 58–59, 79–80
English Department of, 55, 62
“Me and Bobby McGee” (Kristofferson), 28–29
Meir, Golda, 183
Melville, Herman, 68
“Memories” (Cohen), 198–99
Mercouri, Melina, 90
Michelangelo, 81
Miller, Arthur, 121
Milton, John, 203–4
Miracles, 122
Mishmar summer camp, 116
Mitchell, Joni, 15, 20, 26–27, 145–46
modernist poetry, 56, 80
Mojo, 126–27
Moltmann, Jürgen, 125–26
Montreal, 13, 35, 55, 60, 70, 77, 94, 97, 117, 127, 144–46, 180
City Hall, 48
Jewish community in, 40–44, 47–51, 57, 75–76, 82–87, 89
Jewish Library, 82–87, 100, 202
King George Park, 40
Museum of Fine Arts, 78–79
St. Catherine Street, 66, 69
St. Urbain Street, 57, 75
Westmount, 41, 47, 59, 75, 105
Montreal Forum, 145–46
Morrison, Jim, 15, 30, 149–56, 172, 223
death of, 156
drug use of, 149–50, 153, 154–55
Moses, 44
Motown, 122
Mount Baldy, 207, 228–31, 243, 244
Moyle, Allan, 227
“Mr. Tambourine Man” (Dylan), 114
music, 118–19
classical, 127
religion and, 124–26, 150
tension and resolution in, 151
Nachman of Breslov, 40
Nashville, Tenn., 14, 33, 147, 165
nationalism, 47
LC on, 77–78
Natural Born Killers (film), 227
Nazi Party, 95
Newman, Randy, 126
New Skin for the Old Ceremony (Cohen), 102, 103, 135, 200
Newton, Isaac, 173
New York, N.Y., 31, 61, 68, 76, 78, 99, 128, 188–89, 239
bohemian life in, 121
Chelsea Hotel, 35, 111, 120–21, 129, 132, 134–35, 140–41, 163, 199
East Village, 127
Forest Hills, 158
Greenwich Village, 72
Lower East Side, 144
Town Hall, 130–31
New Yorker, 93
New York Times, 140
Nicaragua, 97
Nice (band), 172–73
Nicholson, Jack, 167
Nico, 127, 153
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 153
Nilsson, Harry, 172
Nirvana, 222
Norfolk Penitentiary, 59
October Revolution, 95
Odetta, 138
Old Ideas (Cohen), 15, 245–46
Ondaatje, Michael, 60
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (film), 167
“One of Us Cannot Be Wrong” (Cohen), 35, 163
“only tourist in Havana, the” (Cohen), 96
Operation Falcon, 97–98
Organisation de l’armée secrète, 159
Ostransky, Leroy, 151
O’Sullivan, Gilbert, 172
Ottawa, Château Laurier in, 156
“Our Lady of Solitude” (Cohen), 202
Page, Patti, 233
“Paint It Black” (Rolling Stones), 123
Palestine, 47–48
Palmer, Carl, 173–74
Palmer, Tony, 171
“Paper Thin Hotel” (Cohen), 199
Paradise Lost (Milton), 203–4
Parasites of Heaven (Cohen), 101–2
Paris, 31, 137
Olympia concert hall in, 157
Passover
, 75, 126, 176
People, 40
Perkins, Anthony, 90
Pet Sounds (Beach Boys), 123
Phaedra (film), 90–91
“Piece of My Heart” (Joplin), 154
Plato, 103–4, 124, 169
pogroms, 43, 46, 80, 94
Poland, 215–17
Solidarity movement in, 215
Porter, Cole, 127
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, A (Joyce), 230–31
Postmodernism, 93, 222
Pound, Ezra, 56
Pratt, E. J., 56–57
Presley, Elvis, 31, 113
Priddy, Nancy, 139
Procol Harum, 22
Pump Up the Volume (film), 221, 227
Purdy, Al, 114–15
“Purple Haze” (Hendrix), 154
Q magazine, 212
Queen, 194
Rabin, Yitzhak, 240
Ramones, 193–94
Raskay, Harry, 187
Rawson, Jean-Pierre, 159
Recent Songs (Cohen), 202
“Red Rubber Ball” (Simon), 132
Reed, Lou, 127–28
R.E.M., 222, 226
Renaissance, 119–20
Republic, The (Plato), 103–4
Revolver (Beatles), 122–23
rhythm and blues (R & B), 22
Richards, Keith, 15
Richler, Mordecai, 75–80, 156
works of, 80
Rimbaud, Arthur, 61, 150
Rivera, Scarlet, 144
Rivers, Larry, 121
Robinson, Sharon, 232
Robinson, Smokey, 122
rock and roll, 15, 17, 21, 32, 121–24, 126–29, 138, 144, 146, 150–56, 189–90
alternative, 221
doo wop, 198
folk, 138
glam, 222
maximalist, 194
progressive, 172–74, 221, 222
punk, 193–94, 221, 222
Rogovoy, Seth, 117
Rolling Stone, 140
Rolling Stones, 16, 123, 135, 158, 172, 189, 222
Rolling Thunder Revue, 143–46
“Roll Over Beethoven” (Berry), 122
Rome, 81
ancient, 58
Ronson, Mick, 144
Rosarium Philosophorum, 200–201
Rosenberg, Yudel, 76
Rosengarten, Morton, 105
Rosetta Stone, 221
Rovina, Hannah, 184
Rovina, Ilana, 184
Rozmovits, Linda, 82
Rubber Soul (Beatles), 121–22
Ruff, Willie, 132
“Saint Jig” (Cohen), 63–66
Saliers, Don E., 125
Santos, Al, 138
Scarface (film), 227–28
Schindler, Anton Felix, 151
Schmidt, Arthur, 140
Scholem, Gershom, 48
Scientology, 217
Scott, F. R., 58, 80, 114–15, 233
Season in Hell, A (Rimbaud), 150
Second Scroll, The (Klein), 80–82, 85
“Seems So Long Ago, Nancy” (Cohen), 36–37
Selected Poems: 1956–1968 (Cohen), 156
September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks of, 232
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Beatles), 70, 210
Shaar Hashomayim synagogue, 43, 49–50
Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 89
Shema prayer, 125
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