Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai

Who by Fire: Leonard Cohen in the Sinai is a 2022 work of narrative nonfiction by Canadian-Israeli journalist and author Matti Friedman. Published in the United States by Spiegel & Grau on March 29, 2022, the book reconstructs Leonard Cohen's largely undocumented concert tour along the front lines of the Yom Kippur War in October 1973. Drawing on Cohen's unpublished 45-page manuscript, pocket diaries held at McMaster University in Toronto, and interviews with Israeli soldiers and musicians who were present, Friedman chronicles how a singer on the verge of retirement found renewed purpose performing for Israeli soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula - and how that wartime experience shaped some of Cohen's most celebrated music.