Return from exile
Subtitle: one woman's journey back to Judaism
By: by Carol Matzkin Orsborn.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 215
Subjects: Orsborn, Carol -- Religion.; Judaism -- United States.; Jewish women -- Religious life -- United States.
Description: At midlife, a spiritually hungry author of self-help books leaves her professional life to enroll in divinity school. Return from Exile is the engaging, often profound story of Carol Matzkin Orsborn's first year at Vanderbilt Divinity School, the year that transformed her life.

In this spiritual "pressure cooker," we share the author's friendships with similarly searching students, her encounters with challenging and supportive professors, and her first serious engagement with Jewish and Christian literatures. In a largely Christian environment, Orsborn confronts her unconsciously held prejudices and loyalties and discovers the hidden riches within her own tradition.

Eventually she finds her way back to the heart and soul of Judaism, but it is a very different Judaism from the one she left behind.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-215.