num_pages: 274
description: A unique memoir that interweaves poetry, narrative, meditation, and social history, A Spiritual Life explores the complex facets of a Jewish woman's spiritual coming-of-age, capturing the emotional and spiritual reality of contemporary Jews as well as religious seekers of all types. From the experiences of early childhood, to the spiritual awakening of a secular adolescent encountering Jewish tradition, to the alternately funny and searing tales of new-found independence, early married life, young motherhood, and midlife, Feld comments with remarkable honesty and clarity on the many stages of spiritual and artistic exploration and growth. Overarching all these accounts is the picture of how the cycle of the Jewish calendar year comes to provide an ever-renewing source of sustenance for the author's deepening spiritual expression.
language: English
title: A Spiritual Life: A Jewish Feminist Journey
titlecomplete: A Spiritual Life: A Jewish Feminist Journey (Suny Modern Jewish Literature and Culture)
genres: Judaism, Jewish, Poetry
ratings_count: 22
publisher: State University of New York Press