Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends. Gertrude Landa

The very cordial welcome given to my earlier volume of "Jewish Fairy Tales and Fables" has prompted me to draw further upon Rabbinic lore in the interest, chiefly, of the children. How the wise Rabbis of old took into account the necessities of the little ones, whose minds they understood so perfectly, is obvious from such legends as those dealing with boyish exploits of the great Biblical characters, Abraham, Moses, and David. These I have rewritten from the stories in the Talmud and Midrash in a manner suitable for the children of to-day.

I have ventured also beyond the confines of these two wonderful compilations. There is a wealth of delightful imagination in the legends and folk-lore of the Jews of a later period which is almost entirely unknown to children. I have drawn also on these sources for some of the stories here presented. My desire is to give boys and girls something Jewish which they may be able to regard as companion delights to the treasury of general fairy-lore and childish romance.

Aunt Naomi.

London, March, 1919.

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"Where is the door?"	Frontispiece
Og, riding gaily on the unicorn behind the Ark, was quite happy	26
A strange crowd of demons of all shapes and sizes poured into the synagogue with threatening gestures	36
He could not see what Sarah saw—a figure, a spirit, clutching a big stick	68
"The big fellow here got angry, beat the others and smashed them to bits"	88
He sprang from his stool, spluttering and cursing	100
He found a beautiful youth, clad in a deer skin, lying on the ground	112
With a cry, he put his fingers in his mouth to ease the pain and burned his tongue	126
They saw the land rise up like a huge mountain and a tremendous stream of water gush forth	134
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