Who by Fire: War, Atonement, and the Resurrection of Leonard Cohen by Matti Friedman

Author:Matti Friedman [Friedman, Matti]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780771096266
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Published: 2022-03-29T00:00:00+00:00

The singer Yardena Arazi volunteered as soon as the war started. There’s a photo of her singing at an air base with her trio Chocolate, Mint & Gum, three young women in jeans and T-shirts, Arazi with her famous black braids. She reached the Golan escarpment along with the reinforcements racing to shore up the faltering troops in the Israeli line. Like many entertainers, including Pupik, she’d started out in the most famous military entertainment troupe, the one attached to a brigade called the Fighting Pioneer Youth. She learned the trade during the attrition battles in the late 1960s along the Suez Canal, where the troupe would travel from outpost to outpost, and where one of her musician friends had his leg nearly severed by shrapnel. But this was the first time she saw dead Israelis. “I remember one concert on the Golan for paratroopers who’d lost a lot of friends. They weren’t in the mood,” she told a reporter years later. It was dark. The musicians used jeep headlights for illumination. They sang a classic from the ’48 war called “Friendship,” about fallen comrades, a song beloved of the parents of these soldiers. When the song was written, at the moment of Israel’s birth, the Jews thought it would be just one war and that’s it. But there had been three since then. It was like the war was never going to end. “They cried, and we cried,” she said.

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