Canadians, Israelis and fans around the world continue to mourn the loss of one of the world’s great songwriters and singers, novelist and poet Leonard Cohen, born in Montreal in 1934 to Litvak mother Masha Klonitsky, daughter of Talmudic writer Rabbi Solomon Klonitsky-Kline, and father Nathan Cohen, whose father came from Lithuania.

Cohen passed away at his home in Los Angeles on the night of November 7, 2016. He was buried in the family plot before his death was announced publicly.

Cohen’s fourteenth and final album, You Want It Darker, was released just two weeks before his death, on October 21, 2016.

The Lithuanian Jewish Community extends our deepest condolences to his family during this time of grief.