Gertrude Landa
Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066121044
Table of Contents
The Fairy Princess of Ergetz ToC
The Higgledy-Piggledy Palace ToC
The Quarrel of the Cat and Dog ToC
The Sleep of One Hundred Years ToC
King Alexander's Adventures ToC
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.
ILLUSTRATIONS
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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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