title: Bubbe Meises: Jewish Myths, Jewish Realities
author: Rabbi Ronald H. Isaacs
description: Bubbe Meises is Yiddish for old wives tales. Isaacs offers readers an account of Jewish myths, misunderstandings, and misconceptions. He tells the origins of these misconceptions and how they have influenced Jews. There are chapters on basic Jewish beliefs, Hebrew and Jewish expressions, Jewish holidays, death and dying, ritual objects, superstitions, sex, Israel, medical ethics, prayers, and the Bible. The author succeeds in clarifying and explaining how many of them came into being and why Jews continue to believe them. For those readers whose grandmas never exposed them to all this wisdomplease read the book. --George Cohen
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  OUT OF THE
  
  
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  THE STORY OF A CHILD OF BUCHENWALD  
  WHO RETURNED HOME AT LAST
  
  
  CHIEF RABBI
  
  
  ISRAEL MEIR LAU
  
  
  Forewords by  
  Shimon Peres  
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  Elie Wiesel
  
  
  Translated from the Hebrew by Jessica Sctbon  
  and Shira Leibowitz Schmidt
  
  
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  Copyright © Yedioth Ahronoth Sifre Hemed, 2005  
  Copyright © Jerusalem Publications, 2009  
  English-language edition copyright © 2011 by Rabbi Israel Meir Lau  
  Foreword © by Shimon Peres  
  Foreword © Elie Wiesel
  
  
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