DEBBIE FRIEDMAN

'Debbie Friedman' (born c. 1952) is an American composer and singer of songs with Jewish religious content. She was born in Utica, New York but moved with her family to Minnesota at age 5.
She wrote many of her early songs as a song leader at Olin-Sang-Ruby camp in Oconomowoc, WI in the early 1970s.
Since her debut in 1971, she has published more than 19 albums. Her work is inspired by such diverse sources as Joan Baez, Peter, Paul and Mary, and a number of folk music artists. She uses English and Hebrew lyrics and writes for all ages.
In 2006 a movie was made about Debbie by producer Ann Coppel entitled "A Journey of Spirit". [1]
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In 2007 Ms. Friedman accepted an appointment to the faculty of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion's School of Sacred Music in New York where whe will instruct both rabbinic and cantorial students. article: [2]
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Contents

Discography

Affiliations

External links

Discography

Partial, see discography for the list on her Web site.

★ Songs of the Spirit- The Debbie Friedman Anthology

★ Light ''These'' Lights

★ Debbie Friedman Live in Concert

★ The Water in the Well

★ The Alef Bet

★ Debbie Friedman at Carnegie Hall

★ The World of Your Dreams

★ And You Shall Be a Blessing

★ Ani Ma-Amin

★ Not by Might Not by Power

★ Sing Unto God

Affiliations

★ Debbie Friedman is an alumna (1969) of Highland Park High School in Saint Paul, Minnesota. She was inducted into the school's Hall of Fame in 1999.[3]


★ Debbie Friedman is an honorary member of the 'American Conference of Cantors': [www.accantors.org]

External links

★ The Debbie Friedman Website and Fan Club

★ Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution from the Jewish Women's Archive

★ Judaism Wikia's article on Debbie Friedman

★ "A Journey of Spirit"