Title: A spiritual life
First published: 1999
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 newfound independence, early married life, young motherhood, and midlife, Feld comments with 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.
Subjects: American Jewish religious poetry, Biography, Feminism, Feminists, Jewish religious poetry, American, Jewish women, Judaism, Religious aspects, Religious aspects of Feminism, Religious life, Spiritual life, Jews, Diaries, Authorship, Identity, Feminism, religious aspects, judaism, Spiritual life, judaism, Jews, united states, biography, Women, religious life
Places: United States
People: Merle Feld (1947-)