The work and biographies of prolific songwriters Debbie Friedman and Linda Hirschhorn, rabbis Geela Rayzel Raphael and Hanna Tiferet Siegel and others are illuminated in A Season of Singing: Creating Feminist Jewish Music in the United States by Sarah M. Ross. Ross also discusses how this new musical form arose from rich contexts of feminism, identity politics, folk music and Judaism. A publication of the Hadassah Brandeis Institute Series on Jewish Women. Upne.com