Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Leonard Cohen Tribute in Yiddish: Batsheva Sings "Dance Me to the End of Love"


In February 2017, Toronto's Beth Tzedec Congregation celebrated the life, words and music of the legendary Leonard Cohen with a Kabbalat Shabbat service and dinner, special Shaẖarit service and a community concert. 

Batsheva Capek is a Canadian Jewish folksinger who is living in the USA with her song writer – composer husband. At the Leonard Cohen Tribute Concert, she sang her own Yiddish translation of Cohen's classic Dance Me to the End of Love.

She preceded the song with a short story about how she met Cohen at a dinner in Toronto's King Edward Hotel.

Enjoy!

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If you'd like to see Cohen's original music video of this song, here it is. So far it has been seen 50 million times on YouTube.


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