During Sukkot 5780/2019, Cantor Sarah Myerson and the Kane Street Shvesterhood collaboratively wrote this song about famous Jewish women throughout history.
We are the daughters of Miriam the Prophet
She played the timbrel and she led the women
Singing by the Sea
We are the daughters of Deborah the Judge
She gave good counsel in war and in peace
Chanting a hymn of victory
We are the daughters of Hannah the Prophet
Quietly praying with words and with tears
Giving thanks for fertility
We are the daughters of biblical women
Who sang and who danced and who played tambourine
Madama de Rossi, with hair dark and flowy,
Sang for the opera, then for the Duke
Played on the lute with a dulcimer tone
but never on shabbes when she stayed at home
Admired by Monteverdi and Fellino
She was the real thing, never a phony
Her voice soft and tender with madrigals sweet
Europa’s performances were hailed as a treat.
We are the daughters of biblical women
Who sang and who danced and who played tambourine
We are the daughters of Leonora Duarte
Baroque composer and violist
She hid her Converso identity
We are the daughters of Fanny Mendelssohn
Romantic composer and pianist
Career stifled by misogyny
We are the daughters of biblical women
Who sang and who danced and who played tambourine
We are the daughters of Fania Borach
she’s also known as Baby Snooks and Fanny Brice
Comedienne, singer, theater and film actress,
Barbara Streisand played her real nice
We are the daughters of Bracha Zefira
In Jewish music a true pioneer-a
Temani-Western a new ethnic fusion
Our musicial mother, it’s no illusion
We are the daughters of biblical women
Who sang and who danced and who played tambourine.