The Project Gutenberg eBook, Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends, by Gertrude Landa

Title: Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends

Author: Gertrude Landa

Release Date: September 27, 2008 [eBook #26711]

Language: English

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Jewish Fairy Tales
and Legends

By

"Aunt Naomi"

(GERTRUDE LANDA)

SIXTEENTH THOUSAND

NEW YORK
BLOCH PUBLISHING CO., Inc.
"The Jewish Book Concern"
1943

Copyright, 1919,
Bloch Publishing Company.

PREFACE

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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