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Merle Feld (born in 1947) is an educator, activist, author, playwright, and poet.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=ZEEK: Articles: Merle Feld Finds Her Words )〕 Merle Feld was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. In 1968 she graduated from Brooklyn College and moved to Boston, where she became involved with the newly founded Havurat Shalom, the community "often considered a flagship of the havurah movement."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=JTA: Countercultural Spirit Lives on at Iconic 1960s Havurah )〕 She began writing her first play, ''The Opening'', in 1981, and in 1983 began work on her second, ''The Gates Are Closing''. This play is often read in synagogues in preparation for the High Holidays. In 1984 she joined B'not Esh, a Jewish feminist community, and early on, during one of their annual retreats, shared her first poems.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bridges: A Jewish Feminists Journal Vol 16.1: A Congenial Anarchy: An Affirmation of Jewish Feminist Space )〕 In 1989 she went to Israel for a sabbatical, where she facilitated an all-female Israeli-Palestinian dialogue group on the West Bank, and demonstrated with Women in Black.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Publication of Merle Feld's "A Spiritual Life: A Jewish Feminist Journey" )〕 This part of her life was the basis of her third play, ''Across the Jordan'', which was included as part of the first anthology of female Jewish playwrights, ''Making a Scene'' (Syracuse University Press, 1997).〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Merle Feld )〕 In 1999 she published a memoir, ''A Spiritual Life: A Jewish Feminist Journey'', which has been translated into Russian and published in the former Soviet Union. A revised edition was published in 2007 as ''A Spiritual Life: Exploring the Heart and the Jewish Tradition.''〔 In 2000 she was named a "Woman Who Dared" by the Jewish Women's Archive for her peace activism.〔 In 2005 she became the founding director of the Albin Rabbinic Writing Institute, mentoring rabbinical students and recently ordained rabbis across the denominations.〔 In 2011 she published a collection of poems, ''Finding Words''.〔 She is married to Rabbi Edward Feld, and the two have a daughter, Lisa, and a son, Uri. ==External links== * (Merle Feld's website ) * (Text of "We All Stood Together," Merle Feld's most famous poem ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Merle Feld」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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