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Amazing Jewish Facts and Curiosities: Can You Believe It? »

Authors: Ronald H. Isaacs
ISBN-13: 9780742543546, ISBN-10: 0742543544
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: January 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Author Biography: Ronald H. Isaacs

Book Synopsis

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.

	Introduction	vii
Chapter I	Jewish Holidays	1
	Rosh Hashana	2
	Omens	2
	Miscellany	3
	Yom Kippur	6
	Sukkot	11
	Hanukkah	16
	Purim	24
	Passover	31
	Shavuot	40
Chapter II	Medicine	49
Chapter III	Unusual Superstitions	61
Chapter IV	Judaism and the Occult	71
	Who's Who of Demons	74
	The Evil Eye	78
Chapter V	Oddities of Dreams and Dream Interpretation	83
Chapter VI	Fantastic Jewish Beasts	90
Chapter VII	Unusual Prayers and Prayer Oddities	96
Chapter VIII	Bible Curiosities	104
Chapter IX	Amazing Miracles	116
	Other Miraculous Signs of God	120
	Biblical Miracle Stories of Elijah	122
	Biblical Miracle Stories of Elisha	127
	Miracle Stories in Rabbinic Writings	131
Chapter X	Education	142
Chapter XI	Unusual "Onlys"	145
Chapter XII	Miscellaneous Oddities	148