
Amazing Jewish Facts and Curiosities
Can You Believe It?
Ronald H. Isaacs(Author)
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published on 25. October 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
174 pages
978-0-7425-4354-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book presents an array of strange facts and curiosities about Jewish customs and rituals. In the great body of Jewish literature there are a plethora of fascinating (but relatively unknown), strange, and unusual statements, curiosities, oddities, and other bits of information that have accumulated over the centuries. This book gathers these curiosities and presents them thematically for the reader's pleasure.
Reviews / Votes
Rabbi Ron Isaacs has written a most informative and enjoyable book. The reader will appreciate the knowledge that is attained and will be entertained by the many curiosities that Rabbi Isaacs has selected. This is a book that should find itself on the bookshelves of those who are both learned and relatively new to the study of Judaism. -- Rabbi Vernon Kurtz, past president, the Rabbinical Assembly There is something that will inform and surprise the reader on almost every page of this book. Rabbi Isaacs has explored the backwoods and has wandered off the beaten track of the Jewish tradition in order to find these unusual facts and these little-known insights that he brings together in this fascinating book. I learned from it, and so will you. -- Rabbi Jack Riemer, National Rabbinic Network, Boca Raton This wonderful publication serves as a marvelous teaching tool for Jewish adult-education classes. Rabbi Isaacs reveals numerous Jewish facts that the average Jewish reader might not otherwise discover. -- RAbbi Bernhard H. Rosenberg, spiritual leader of Congregation Beth-El, Edison, New Jersey Everyone loves trivia. Rabbi Ronald Isaacs' new book is a collection of facts, superstitions and lore related to Judaism... Perusing the text, readers will discover things such as the archeological discover of Hanukkiah shaped like a pointed star, a remedy for a fever, and a prayer for the eradication of bad dreams. * Jewish Book World * This volume is a very good and efficient summary of many major elements of Jewish history....It is well-suited as an introductory text of Jewish history, and the Glossary and Index are quite useful. -- WG * Jewish World Book *More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
262 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7425-4354-6 (9780742543546)
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Person
Rabbi Ronald H. Isaacs has been the spiritual leader of the Temple Sholom in Bridgewater, New Jersey since 1975. He received his doctorate in instructional technology from Columbia University's Teachers College. He is the author of more than sixty books. His most recent publications include Legends of Biblical Heros, Every Person's Guide to Death and Dying in the Jewish Tradition, and Every Person's Guide to Jewish Philosophy and Philosophers. Rabbi Isaacs currently serves as chairperson of the publications committee of the Rabbinical Assembly of America and with his wife, Leora, designs and coordinates the adult learning summer experience called Shabbat Plus at Camp Ramah in the Poconos. He resides in New Jersey with his wife, Leora, and their children, Keren and Zachary.
Content
1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Jewish Holidays
Chapter 3 Medicine
Chapter 4 Unusual Superstitions
Chapter 5 Judaism and the Occult
Chapter 6 Oddities of Dreams and Dream Interpretation
Chapter 7 Fantastic Jewish Beasts
Chapter 8 Unusual Prayers and Oddities
Chapter 9 Bible Curiosities
Chapter 10 Amazing Miracles
Chapter 11 Education
Chapter 12 Unusual "Onlys"
Chapter 13 Miscellaneous Oddities
Chapter 2 Jewish Holidays
Chapter 3 Medicine
Chapter 4 Unusual Superstitions
Chapter 5 Judaism and the Occult
Chapter 6 Oddities of Dreams and Dream Interpretation
Chapter 7 Fantastic Jewish Beasts
Chapter 8 Unusual Prayers and Oddities
Chapter 9 Bible Curiosities
Chapter 10 Amazing Miracles
Chapter 11 Education
Chapter 12 Unusual "Onlys"
Chapter 13 Miscellaneous Oddities