I was there, and, if I'm not totally fooled bymy memories, I can see the back of my skalp for a brief moment towards the end of the clip. Leonard Cohen did a concert that day at the 'Konzerthaus' ("There's a concert hall in Vienna" ... Yes, this one!) which I attended. He also did sing this song at the concert. Then some activists told him about the Arena Project, and he went there and sang this wonderful song.
interestingly, Leonard Cohen, in 1973, went to Israel as the Yom Kippur War was breaking out.Cohen was staying on the Greek island of Hydra with his girlfriend Suzanne Elrod and their son Adam. Their relationship was experiencing some turmoil and it was an unhappy period for him. he decided to go to Israel, and perhaps volunteer on a Kibbutz. He spent his first few days in country, in Tel Aviv, where he was spotted by some well known Israeli entertainers, including Oshik Levi, Matti Caspi and Ilana Rovina. After Caspi asked for and received confirmation that the guy who stood before him really WAS none other than LEONARD COHEN, Caspi invited Cohen to join with him and other entertainers who were going to entertain the troops at the front. So off they went to the Sinai. It was there that Cohen had a direct encounter with the legendary combat commander, and later Prime Minister, the great Ariel Sharon (may his memory always be blessed). Cohen, himself a self righteous pacifist received a MAJOR lesson in self-awareness, upon meeting Sharon. He wrote of that encounter as follows: "I am introduced to the great general, ‘The Lion of the Desert.’ Under my breath I ask him, ‘How dare you?’ He does not repent. We drink some cognac sitting on the sand in the shade of a tank. I want his job.” In time of war, REAL pacifists volunteer to serve as combat medics, carrying no weapon, or perhaps in some other non-combatant role, at least. The rest are, almost without exception, sniveling shameful cowards who hide, timidly and meekly behind feigned virtue, from the dangers and risks that others agree to face, most valiantly. I respect Cohen for his having gone into proximity to harms way. May he rest in peace eternally!
Bin noch keine 73,qber lerne bzw versuche mein Erbe,das auch diese herrliche Sprache beinhaltet ,wieder zu lernen ,Ich bewundere ,das sie jetzt noch eine neue -zumindest für sie - Sprache lernen wollen ,und dazu noch di sheynsrw vun velt!wiel Erfolg ,sie werden es auch schaffen ,wenn sie nicht aufgeben ,wenn der manchmal etwas verrückt und wirr wirkende satzaudfau kommt.. Da hat mir geholfen das was wir im daytsh gelernt haben ,zu verdrängen ,was am anfang gar nicht so einfach ist ...Aber dadurch hab ich die Sprache noch einmal mit einem anderen ,hm,sagen wir mal verstänfnis für eben diese satzzusammenstellung gelernt zu sehen ...es ist so herrlich ,weil man ständig überrascht wird ,weil der Dialekt 5 sthethl weiter das gleiche Wort für etwas ganz anderes nutzt ,und man so nie auslernt...tut man ja eh net,den wer das von sich behaupten hat noch mit am meisten zu lernen ....ich bin immer wieder erfreut ,wenn ich etwas neues lernen darf,den n es ist nicht die Norm -Leider-sich die Zeit und Freiheit zu gönnen,etwas zu lernen,Ich danke für dieses Geschenkund das mir wenigstens ein wenig Verstand gegeben wurde ,dies zu sehen und zu nutzen !Wie scho geschrieben ,sie habe meine vollsten Respekt ,und ich wünsche ihnen die Kraft und das Durchhaltevermögen -es wird belohnt werden !mich würde interessieren ,wie weit sie sind,wie die voran kommen und ob sie Freude daran haben alles Gute und viel Erfolg Anna Puppe -Feige
Leonard. He knew exactly what he was doing, singing in YIDDISH in Austria where the most brutal Nazis were born. Including Hitler. A gutte Nashama. And a genius.
Yiddish was spoken by the Jews in Vienna and generally the Austro Hungarian Empire. It can be understood very well by Austrians It is such a pity that some people here seem to think that Leonard Cohen sang this with a feeling of revenge This was in the Arena where at that time a young and rather leftist audience met who had nothing to do with the Nazis and who did never feel anything but abhorrence about this past In a way such comments spoil the wonderful togetherness that could be felt then and there and remembrance of the time when Yiddish was still a second language in Vienna So many wish it still were, it should not be forgotten and we have still to this day many words in Yiddish in the Viennese dialect like Chuzpe, Schlamassel etc.
I love the Yiddisch language. Here in Holland we still use some of the words. But sadly nobody speaks it anymore, because almost all Dutch Jews were killed in the war. 😢
And also a rehearsal (about 9 minutes) titled "leonard rehearsing 'az der rebbe zingt' (yiddish)"; Obviously it's an amateur video. At: ruclips.net/video/EC1KRAiufUE/видео.html
Everything Leonard Cohen did was purely Jewish, even if most people listening and watching were not aware of it. ruclips.net/video/cFMm_x1qlPY/видео.html
Hardly? You miss my point. We all know that he was firmly rooted in his Jewish identity, strange as it was. That he recorded a Yiddish tune was for me a totally unexpected and first time experience. I had no idea that he had sung such tunes in any of his concerts.
There are no longer student occupied unis. Nor enough students willing to occupy anything. We’ve grown comfortable in our undeserved skins with our unsustainable creature comforts. We were raised by a generation who didn’t live through famine or war and we never experienced any hardship ourselves, so we’re taking all this for granted.
Tom Morello played for us during the Occupy movement. Those days have not completely passed, but it's true that too many people (especially Americans) are unwilling to seek justice outside their fake little comfort zone.
Oh my god, my comment aged so incredibly badly hahah. Just a week after I commented this, the two major lecture halls at my uni were occupied by protesting students. I guess I was wrong, and those days aren’t entirely over after all, like you said.
Leonard Eliezer Cohen had a great sense of humor. Singing a song in Yiddish to a bunch of Austrians -many of whom had not confronted their Nazi past. He's laughing his way through the song having fun seeing a bunch of Austrians clapping for the Jew...getting paid to make them feel just a little bit comfortable. He knew his audience. He didn't sing this in Israel...he wanted these Germans to hear what Yiddish sounds like....And in his own way saying a small FU to the crowd.
Perhaps. It was certainly important to sing in Yiddish in Austria. But there is an other fact: The audience did probably understand every word! The text he is singing is in very simple language and each verse is repeated many times. He is practically singing in German! The only words that are a bit different are "rebbe" for Rabbiner and [C]hassidim for the Jewish congregation.
Obviously you don't know anything about the background. This happened in the occupied Arena cultural center. The audience is leftist and too young to have any "nazi past", and most certainly he wasn't getting paid to play in "the best place to be in Vienna" (according to him). Check your prejudice.
Leonard Cohen was not like that at all. And you may rest assured - the Arena was never for any people who did not confront the Nazi past, who did not mourn this past and did not utterly refute fascist politics .. It was for an open minded younger generation and Leonard Cohen was always loved and greatly appreciated in Vienna I think your spiteful commentary is not at all in the spirit of Cohen and does not do him justice
Man, what a bunch of crap you wrote here. First you talk about Austria, then you name the audience "Germans ", then you put thoughts and attitudes into Leonard's head that certainly weren't there. As others have pointed out, this was some protest event with a leftist crowd of young people. Way to destroy a beautiful moment by an exceptional artist with hateful commentary.
this took place in the 70s in an area that was used for concerts/events that was supposed to get deconstructed and sold to a private company. protestors started to occupy it and organise illegal concerts there. they somehow got cohen to come there after a regular concert somewhere else in vienna. he likely chose a yiddish song as a reference to viennas long jewish history. the situation ended with a compromise and the protestors got an area nearby that is still used for concerts today.
As a matter of fact the Arena, where Leonard performed, was occupied by leftist activists so young, they fore sure did not even live during the horrible period of the Nazi regime. You were right that there were a considerable number of Nazis with Austrian origin. Including Hitler, Kaltenbrunner a.s.f.
Ich auch mag diese Musik und möchte diese Sprache lernen. L. Cohen ist wunderbar Immer ❤
Jiddish❤️
I was there, and, if I'm not totally fooled bymy memories, I can see the back of my skalp for a brief moment towards the end of the clip.
Leonard Cohen did a concert that day at the 'Konzerthaus' ("There's a concert hall in Vienna" ... Yes, this one!) which I attended. He also did sing this song at the concert. Then some activists told him about the Arena Project, and he went there and sang this wonderful song.
Epic. Unreal. My favorite artist of all time. Thank you for posting this.
Just love this - you can see Leonard's emotion involvement in the song ♥
interestingly, Leonard Cohen, in 1973, went to Israel as the Yom Kippur War was breaking out.Cohen was staying on the Greek island of Hydra with his girlfriend Suzanne Elrod and their son Adam. Their relationship was experiencing some turmoil and it was an unhappy period for him. he decided to go to Israel, and perhaps volunteer on a Kibbutz. He spent his first few days in country, in Tel Aviv, where he was spotted by some well known Israeli entertainers, including Oshik Levi, Matti Caspi and Ilana Rovina. After Caspi asked for and received confirmation that the guy who stood before him really WAS none other than LEONARD COHEN, Caspi invited Cohen to join with him and other entertainers who were going to entertain the troops at the front. So off they went to the Sinai. It was there that Cohen had a direct encounter with the legendary combat commander, and later Prime Minister, the great Ariel Sharon (may his memory always be blessed). Cohen, himself a self righteous pacifist received a MAJOR lesson in self-awareness, upon meeting Sharon.
He wrote of that encounter as follows:
"I am introduced to the great general, ‘The Lion of the Desert.’
Under my breath I ask him, ‘How dare you?’
He does not repent. We drink some cognac sitting on the sand in the shade of a tank.
I want his job.”
In time of war, REAL pacifists volunteer to serve as combat medics, carrying no weapon, or perhaps in some other non-combatant role, at least.
The rest are, almost without exception, sniveling shameful cowards who hide, timidly and meekly behind feigned virtue, from the dangers and risks that others agree to face, most valiantly.
I respect Cohen for his having gone into proximity to harms way.
May he rest in peace eternally!
How wonderful that this was recorded. Thank you!
Bin 73 und versuche jiddisch zu lernen, ich liebe diese Musik und Sprache.
Bin noch keine 73,qber lerne bzw versuche mein Erbe,das auch diese herrliche Sprache beinhaltet ,wieder zu lernen ,Ich bewundere ,das sie jetzt noch eine neue -zumindest für sie - Sprache lernen wollen ,und dazu noch di sheynsrw vun velt!wiel Erfolg ,sie werden es auch schaffen ,wenn sie nicht aufgeben ,wenn der manchmal etwas verrückt und wirr wirkende satzaudfau kommt.. Da hat mir geholfen das was wir im daytsh gelernt haben ,zu verdrängen ,was am anfang gar nicht so einfach ist ...Aber dadurch hab ich die Sprache noch einmal mit einem anderen ,hm,sagen wir mal verstänfnis für eben diese satzzusammenstellung gelernt zu sehen ...es ist so herrlich ,weil man ständig überrascht wird ,weil der Dialekt 5 sthethl weiter das gleiche Wort für etwas ganz anderes nutzt ,und man so nie auslernt...tut man ja eh net,den wer das von sich behaupten hat noch mit am meisten zu lernen ....ich bin immer wieder erfreut ,wenn ich etwas neues lernen darf,den n es ist nicht die Norm -Leider-sich die Zeit und Freiheit zu gönnen,etwas zu lernen,Ich danke für dieses Geschenkund das mir wenigstens ein wenig Verstand gegeben wurde ,dies zu sehen und zu nutzen !Wie scho geschrieben ,sie habe meine vollsten Respekt ,und ich wünsche ihnen die Kraft und das Durchhaltevermögen -es wird belohnt werden !mich würde interessieren ,wie weit sie sind,wie die voran kommen und ob sie Freude daran haben alles Gute und viel Erfolg Anna Puppe -Feige
Vielen Dank für deine Unterstützung
I speak some Yiddish, and your German, I understand every word.
@@ullarose2000 If you learn, yiddish or hebrow, Ha Shem is with you ! - Shalom - The best way to learn : read the Thora ! -
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Leonard. He knew exactly what he was doing, singing in YIDDISH in Austria where the most brutal Nazis were born. Including Hitler. A gutte Nashama. And a genius.
BH
Yiddish was spoken by the Jews in Vienna and generally the Austro Hungarian Empire. It can be understood very well by Austrians
It is such a pity that some people here seem to think that Leonard Cohen sang this with a feeling of revenge
This was in the Arena where at that time a young and rather leftist audience met who had nothing to do with the Nazis and who did never feel anything but abhorrence about this past
In a way such comments spoil the wonderful togetherness that could be felt then and there and remembrance of the time when Yiddish was still a second language in Vienna
So many wish it still were, it should not be forgotten and we have still to this day many words in Yiddish in the Viennese dialect like Chuzpe, Schlamassel etc.
Great Artist and a great Man!
lots of love
Mr Cohen!
Love it!
Great
Thanks, great!
I love the Yiddisch language. Here in Holland we still use some of the words. But sadly nobody speaks it anymore, because almost all Dutch Jews were killed in the war. 😢
I want to see the whole concert. Wunderschön
there was no full concert. cohen went there after a regular concert to support the protesters with a song,
I just found a 3 minutes version of this same at: ruclips.net/video/KMSllLDuBc8/видео.html
And also a rehearsal (about 9 minutes) titled "leonard rehearsing 'az der rebbe zingt' (yiddish)";
Obviously it's an amateur video. At:
ruclips.net/video/EC1KRAiufUE/видео.html
Leonhard, sleep well, Ha Shem, Ha Melech is with you, Shalom.
ah mensch.
♥♥♥
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This is the first I am seeing of Cohen in such a purely Jewish context
Everything Leonard Cohen did was purely Jewish, even if most people listening and watching were not aware of it.
ruclips.net/video/cFMm_x1qlPY/видео.html
Well now. That was a surprise.
Hardly. Cohen was Very connected to his Jewishness. Right to the very last songs
Hardly? You miss my point. We all know that he was firmly rooted in his Jewish identity, strange as it was. That he recorded a Yiddish tune was for me a totally unexpected and first time experience. I had no idea that he had sung such tunes in any of his concerts.
It wasnt strange.
Where have those days gone when artists would go to a student-occupied unis to support protesters? Injustice is too loud not to be shouted back at.
There are no longer student occupied unis. Nor enough students willing to occupy anything. We’ve grown comfortable in our undeserved skins with our unsustainable creature comforts. We were raised by a generation who didn’t live through famine or war and we never experienced any hardship ourselves, so we’re taking all this for granted.
Tom Morello played for us during the Occupy movement. Those days have not completely passed, but it's true that too many people (especially Americans) are unwilling to seek justice outside their fake little comfort zone.
Oh my god, my comment aged so incredibly badly hahah. Just a week after I commented this, the two major lecture halls at my uni were occupied by protesting students. I guess I was wrong, and those days aren’t entirely over after all, like you said.
02:45 Lukas Resetarits nimmt Cohen die Gitarre ab
ist das wirklich lukas resetarits?
@@eurobubble7068 ja doch, er beschreibt die szene sogar in seinem kabarett programm: ruclips.net/video/IN1a82BHNzI/видео.html&t=3168
Leonard Eliezer Cohen had a great sense of humor. Singing a song in Yiddish to a bunch of Austrians -many of whom had not confronted their Nazi past. He's laughing his way through the song having fun seeing a bunch of Austrians clapping for the Jew...getting paid to make them feel just a little bit comfortable. He knew his audience. He didn't sing this in Israel...he wanted these Germans to hear what Yiddish sounds like....And in his own way saying a small FU to the crowd.
Perhaps. It was certainly important to sing in Yiddish in Austria. But there is an other fact: The audience did probably understand every word! The text he is singing is in very simple language and each verse is repeated many times. He is practically singing in German! The only words that are a bit different are "rebbe" for Rabbiner and [C]hassidim for the Jewish congregation.
Obviously you don't know anything about the background. This happened in the occupied Arena cultural center. The audience is leftist and too young to have any "nazi past", and most certainly he wasn't getting paid to play in "the best place to be in Vienna" (according to him). Check your prejudice.
Leonard Cohen was not like that at all.
And you may rest assured - the Arena was never for any people who did not confront the Nazi past, who did not mourn this past and did not utterly refute fascist politics .. It was for an open minded younger generation and Leonard Cohen was always loved and greatly appreciated in Vienna
I think your spiteful commentary is not at all in the spirit of Cohen and does not do him justice
Man, what a bunch of crap you wrote here. First you talk about Austria, then you name the audience "Germans ", then you put thoughts and attitudes into Leonard's head that certainly weren't there. As others have pointed out, this was some protest event with a leftist crowd of young people. Way to destroy a beautiful moment by an exceptional artist with hateful commentary.
Hier bleiben ist Solidarität is but a german sentence. Is it really in Vienna?
yes vienna arena
Georg Demmer cool thank you. Vielen Dank
Yes, the sentence is german and means "staying (here) is solidarity" - this footage is from the occupation of the "Arena" in Vienna 1976.
this took place in the 70s in an area that was used for concerts/events that was supposed to get deconstructed and sold to a private company. protestors started to occupy it and organise illegal concerts there. they somehow got cohen to come there after a regular concert somewhere else in vienna. he likely chose a yiddish song as a reference to viennas long jewish history. the situation ended with a compromise and the protestors got an area nearby that is still used for concerts today.
in austria they also speak some form of german 😉
And when the rebbe [censored], [self-censorced] alle the Chassdim !!!
As a matter of fact the Arena, where Leonard performed, was occupied by leftist activists so young, they fore sure did not even live during the horrible period of the Nazi regime. You were right that there were a considerable number of Nazis with Austrian origin. Including Hitler, Kaltenbrunner a.s.f.
the beginning is equal to "store room"
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