Birth Name: Leonard Norman Cohen
Place of Birth: Westmount, Quebec, Canada
Date of Birth: 21 September 1934
Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish
Leonard Cohen is a Canadian singer-songwriter.
He was born in Westmount, an English-speaking area of Montreal, Quebec, into a middle-class Jewish family.
His mother, Marsha (Masha) Klonitsky, was the daughter of a Talmudic writer, Rabbi Solomon Klonitsky-Kline of Lithuanian Jewish ancestry. His paternal grandparents were Polish Jews Lyon Cohen, founding president of the Canadian Jewish Congress, born in Budwitcher, Poland, and Rachel Friedman.
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