Leonard Cohen Gets a Star-Studded Tribute

Up on Montréal’s Mount Royal, the wind blew swiftly through Leonard Cohen’s grave on November 7th, the first anniversary of his death. The Cohen family plot at the Congregation Shaar Hashomayim Cemetery is hard to miss—near the front gate, its seven graves trace the Cohen’s deep roots in Montréal, going back to Leonard’s great-grandfather, Lazarus Cohen, buried there almost a century ago, in 1917.

Leonard’s headstone is immediately distinguishable, and not just for the makeshift shrine of flowers, fan art and yahrzeit candles. A symbol of Cohen’s own design, commonly referred to as The Unified Heart (two hearts, one upside, his 1984 poetry collection, and explained, in Cohen's mysterious way, in.