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Title: Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends

Author: Gertrude Landa

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JEWISH FAIRY TALES AND LEGENDS

[Illustration: "Where is the door?" (Page 21)]

JEWISH FAIRY TALES AND LEGENDS

by

"Aunt Naomi"
(GERTRUDE LANDA)

When Childhood's toys have passed away,
May Books become another play.
Then may each book a blessing give
And bring you pleasure while you live.

--_Ruth 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