Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends. Gertrude Landa

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       Gertrude Landa

      Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066121044

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       ILLUSTRATIONS

       The Palace of the Eagles ToC

       The Giant of the Flood ToC

       The Fairy Princess of Ergetz ToC

       The Higgledy-Piggledy Palace ToC

       The Red Slipper ToC

       The Star-Child ToC

       Abi Fressah's Feast ToC

       The Beggar King ToC

       The Quarrel of the Cat and Dog ToC

       The Water-Babe ToC

       Sinbad of the Talmud ToC

       The Outcast Prince ToC

       The Story of Bostanai ToC

       From Shepherd-Boy to King ToC

       The Magic Palace ToC

       The Sleep of One Hundred Years ToC

       King for Three Days ToC

       The Palace in the Clouds ToC

       The Pope's Game of Chess ToC

       The Slave's Fortune ToC

       The Paradise in the Sea ToC

       The Rabbi's Bogey-Man ToC

       The Fairy Frog ToC

       The Princess of the Tower ToC

       King Alexander's Adventures ToC

PREFACE

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      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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