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Jewish legends

Here are entered collections of and works about Jewish legends, including comprehensive works covering both Old Testament legends and post-Biblical Jewish legends. Works on legends in the Bible and on extra-Biblical legends about Biblical characters and events are entered under Bible -- Legends. Works limited to legends in or about the Old or New Testament are entered under Bible. Old Testament -- Legends or Bible. New Testament -- Legends.

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• The Chronicles of Jerahmeel, or, The Hebrew Bible Historiale: Being a Collection of Apocryphal and Pseudo-Epigraphical Books Dealing With the History of the World From the Creation to the Death of Judas Maccabeus (1899), ed. by Moses Gaster and El'azar ben Asher ha-Levi (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Great March: Post-Biblical Jewish Stories, Book I, by Rose G. Lurie, illust. by Todros Geller and Belle Baranceanu (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• The Legends of the Jews (6 public domain volumes), by Louis Ginzberg, trans. by Henrietta Szold and Paul Radin, contrib. by Isaac Husik (Gutenberg and Internet Archive texts and page images)
• Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends (New York: Bloch Publishing Co., c1919), by Gertrude Landa (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
• Tractatus de Diversis Historiis Romanorum et Quibusdam Aliis, Verfasst in Bologna i.j. 1326 (Codex Gudianus 200, in Latin, with German notes; Erlangen: Fr. Junge, 1893), ed. by Salomon Herzstein
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• In the Pale: Stories And Legends of the Russian Jews (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1897), by Henry Iliowizi
  • multiple formats at archive.org
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• The Three Additions to Daniel: A Study, by William Heaford Daubney (multiple formats at CCEL)
• The Golem; legends of the ghetto of Prague (Golem, 1925), by Chajim Bloch and Harry Schneiderman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Neue beiträge zur semitischen sagenkunde. (E. J. Brill, 1893), by Max Grünbaum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Myth and legend of ancient Israel (Gresham Publishing Co., 1928), by A. S. Rappoport (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sipure lamed ṿaṿ tsadiḳim : ayngeṭeylṭ in tsṿey ṭheylen loyṭ A.B ... (Ṿarsha, 1912) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The chronicles of Jerahmeel; or, The Hebrew Bible historiale. Being a collection of apocryphal and pseudo-epigraphical books dealing with the history of the world from the creation to the death of Judas Maccabeus. Translated for the first time from an unique manuscript in the Bodleian library by M. Gaster, PH.D. Together with an introduction, critical notes, a full index, and five facsimiles. (The Royal Asiatic society, 1899), by active 14th century Eleazar ben Asher ha-Levi, Moses Gaster, active 12th century Jerahmeel ben Solomon, and Bodleian Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die sagen der Juden. Gesammelt und bearbeitet von Micha Josef bin Gorion ... (Rütten & Loening, 1913), by Micah Joseph Berdichevsky, Emanuel Bin-Gorion, Rahel Bin Gorion, and Midrash (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Abraham, Isaak und Jakob; Auswahl aus den Sagen der Juden, hrsg (Literarische Anstalt, Rütten & Loening, 1917), by Micah Joseph Berdichevsky and Rahel Bin Gorion (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The legends of the Jews (The Jewish publication society of America, 1909), by Louis Ginzberg, Henrietta Szold, Paul Radin, and Boaz Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tseʼenah u-reʼenah : ʻim hosafot rabot : Naḥalat Tsevi, Nofet tsufim, Sefer ha-Yashar, Shalah ha-ḳadosh, Liḳuṭe yeḳarim, Ohel Yaʻaḳov, Mishle Yehudah, Ḳol Yaʻaḳov : ṿi oykh di falgende maʻlot ṿe-hosafot Peninim yeḳarim ... miṭ hunderṭ un tsehn perushim oyf ʻIvri Ṭayṭsh. (Hibru pablishing ḳompani, 1927), by Yaakov ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Liḳuṭe agadah : mi-tokh ha-Talmud ṿeha-midrash (Shiloh, 1919), by Ẓevi Scharfstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sefer ha-maʻaśiyot (Hotsaʼat "Devir,", 1925), by Mordekhai Ben-Yeḥezki'el (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Prager golem, von seiner "geburt" bis zu seinem "tod" (B. Harz, 1920), by Chajim Bloch and Hans Ludwig Held (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Sagen der Juden. (Rüttem & Loening, 1914), by Micah Joseph Berdichevsky, Emanuel Bin-Gorion, and Rahel Ramberg Bin Gorion (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Legend des Baal-schem (Literarische Anstalt, Rütten und Loening, 1908), by Martin Buber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jüdische Sagen und Legenden für jung und alt (J. Kauffmann, 1902), by Bernhard Kuttner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ursprung der sagen van Abraham, Isaac und Jacob. (F. Duncker, 1871), by Aaron David Bernstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Me-otsar ha-agadah. (Berlin, "Aḥisefer,", 1913), by Micah Joseph Berdichevsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die legenden der Juden (C.A. Schwetschke & sohn, 1919), by Judah Bergmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sagen polnischer Juden (B. Harz, 1920), by Alexander Eliasberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Tales from our gaonim (sages). ([Brooklyn] : [publisher not identified], 1967-, 1967), by Sholom Klass and Brooklyn Jewish press (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jüdische Sagen und Legenden für jung und alt (J. Kauffmann, 1920), by Bernhard Kuttner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Legende des Baalschem (Literarische Anstalt Rütten und Loening, 1918), by Martin Buber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Myth and legend of ancient Israel ... (The Gresham publishing company, ltd., 1928), by A. S. Rappoport (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• In deinen Toren Jerusalem; jüdische Legenden nacherzählt von Else Schubert-Christaller. (Eugen Salzer-Verlag, 1964), by Else Schubert-Christaller (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Treasures of two worlds : unpublished legends and traditions of the Jewish nation ([s.l.], 1910), by Naphtali Herz Imber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fairy tales from grandfather's big book : Jewish legends of old retold for young people (Behrman's House, Inc., 1949), by Edith Lindeman Calisch (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Report for the year 1894-1895 : 1st Tammuz, 5654, to 30th Sivan, 5655 ; and, Report for the year 1895-1896 : 1st Tammuz, 5655, to 30th Sivan, 5656 (The College, 1896), by England) Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate and Moses Gaster (page images at HathiTrust)
• The chronicles of Jeraḥmeel; or, The Hebrew Bible historiale : being a collection of apocryphal and pseudo-epigraphical books dealing with the history of the world from the creation to the death of Judas Maccabeus (Royal Asiatic Society, 1899), by ha-Leṿi Elʻazar ben Asher, Moses Gaster, 12th cent Jerahmeel ben Solomon, and Bodleian Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cristiani ed Ebrei nel Medio Evo : quadro di costumi ; con un ̀appendice di ricordi e leggende giudaiche della medesima epoca (Successori le Monnier, 1866), by Giuseppe Levi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jüdische Legenden (Modernes Verlagsbureau, 1909), by Leo Tolstoy, Emanuel Mischnajewsky-Runin, and J. Teneromo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Buch der Sagen und Legenden jüdischer Vorzeit (Verlag der J. F. Cast'schen Buchhandlung, 1842), by Abraham M. Tendlau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leben und Worte des Balschemm; nach Chassidischen Schriften. (Welt-Verlag, 1920), by Solomon Asher Birnbaum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sefer Divre Noʻam = Sefer divre Noam : ... devarim ... she-hayu ben ha-Rav ... Yaʻaḳov Shimshon mi-Shepeṭiṿḳe ... u-ven ha-Rav ... Yeḥezḳʾel Landa ... : [maʻaśeh] gam nilṿah la-zeh Maʻaśeh yeshurun : maʻaśeh nora asher ḳarah bi-shenat 5383 ... ba-ʻir Raguzah. (M.Y. Fayerman, 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Spruchpoesie des Talmud (Otto Hendel, 1908), by Max Weinberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sipurim = Lehrreiche Erzählungen und Anekdoten gesammelt aus dem Talmud, den Medraschim und anderen jüdischen Schriften. (A. Weichelt, 1877), by S. E. Blogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jeschurun : Taschenbuch für Schilderungen und Anklänge aus dem Leben der Juden auf das Jahr 5601 israelitischer Zeitrechnung (Verlag von L. Fort, 1841), by Siegmund Frankenburg and Carl Maien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Big Bible stories. (W.H. Bach, 1897), by W. H. Bach (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the heart of Israel. (J. Pott & company, 1905), by Bernard Drachman and A. Warshawsky (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bobe mays̀eBaba maʻaśeh. (Drukarnie H. E. Bomberg, 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sagen aus dem Orient. (Macklot, 1847), by Meir Letteris (page images at HathiTrust)
• Israëlitische Galerij, of Verzameling van joodsche Legenden, Mythen, Kronijken, Vertellingen, enz.... (Amsterdam, 1853), by L. Goudsmit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Das buch der sagen und legenden jüdischer vorzeit (J. F. Cast, 1845), by Abraham M. Tendlau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rabbinische mythen, erzählungen und lügen. Nebst zwei balladen der christlichen mythologie im mittelalter. (Weilburg, 1833), by G. G. Bredow (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kol agadot Yiśraʾel. (Hotsaʾat Tushiyah, 1839), by I. B. Levner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sagen des Morgenlandes. (W. Adolf u. co., 1852), by Julius Kossarski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jødiske noveller, fortaellinger og folkesagn. (A.F.Høst, 1861., 1861), by Asser Daniel Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tseʼenah u-reʼenah : ʻim hosofes rabes ... (Hibru poblishing ḳompani, 1912), by Yaakov ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sipurim : ayne zammlung : Yidisher folḳszagen, miṭhen, legenden, ḳroniḳen ... (Ṿ. Pasheles, 1863), by Wolf Pascheles (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jewish tales and legends = [Sipurim ve-igroth mi-ha-talmud ve-ha-midrash (romanized form)] : supplementary readings to the Torah (Hebrew Pub. Co., 1929), by Menaḥem G. Glen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Otsar ha-Torah (S. Freund, 1859), by J. H. Kohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kohns Bibelschatz (Landau, 1857), by J. H. Kohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Legende des Baal-schem. (Literarische Anstalt, Rütten und Loening, 1922), by Martin Buber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Altjüdische Legenden : eine Auswahl aus dem Born Judas (Leipzig : Insel-Verlag, [1922], 1922), by Micah Joseph Berdichevsky and Rahel Bin Gorion (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sagen der Ebräer. (In Commission der C. H. Beck'schen Buchhandlung, 1828), by Hyman Hurwitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Sagen der Juden : [jüdische Sagen und Mythen] (Rüttem & Loening, 1919), by Micah Joseph Berdichevsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Evreĭskī͡ia legendy po Talmudu, midrashim i drugim pervoistochnikam : ot sotvorenī͡ia Mīra do smerti Moisei͡a (Sīon, 1903), by I. B. Levner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Or le-14 (bi-defus M. A. Belinson, 1864), by Isaac Baer Levinsohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sippurim, Prager Sammlung jüdischer Legenden in neuer Auswahl und Bearbeitung. (R. Löwit, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sefer Shivḥe ha-Beshṭ : ṿe-hu sipure niflaʼot ... ha-rav ... M. Yiśraʼel Beshṭ . ([Ḥ. mo. l.], 1884), by of Linits Dov Baer ben Samuel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaves of antiquity; the poetry of Hebrew tradition (Universalist Pub. House, 1893), by Johann Gottfried Herder, Caroline M. Sawyer, and Caroline Mehetabel Fisher Sawyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the Pale : stories and legends of the Russian Jews (Coates, 1900), by Henry Iliowizi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The legends of the Old Testament, traced to their apparent primitive sources. (Trübner, 1874), by Thomas Lumisden Strange (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rabbinic wisdom (Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1921), by Jennie Reizenstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tseʼenah u-reʼenah (בדפוס אברהם צבי ראזענקראנץ ור׳ מנחם מענדיל שריפטזעטצער, 1895), by Yaakov ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Stories from the rabbis (C.L. Webster & Company, 1893), by A. S. Isaacs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hebrew tales (Bloch publishing co., 1911), by Hyman Hurwitz and George Alexander Kohut (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kol agadot Yiśraʾel. ([s.n.], 1902), by I. B. Levner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Semitic legends : a paper read before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool (Liverpool, 1874), by Baron Louis Benas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaves of antiquity : or, The poetry of the Hebrew tradition (Hallock and Lyon, 1849), by Johann Gottfried Herder, Caroline M. Sawyer, and Caroline Mehetabel Fisher Sawyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jewish story book. (K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & co., ltd., 1910), by Jack M. Myers (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Likụtẹ agadah : mi-tokh ha-Talmud vẹha-midrash (Shiloh, 1919), by Zẹvi Scharfstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rabbinische Legenden (Carl Armbruster, 1821), by Gottlieb von Leon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der born Judas; Legenden, Märchen und Erzählungen (Leipzig, 1919), by Micah Joseph Berdichevsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah ʻim megilot ṿe-hafṭarot : bi-leshon Ashkenaz : tseʼenah u-reʼenah. (Be-vet uvi-defus Zeḳel ben Aharon, 1789), by Yaakov ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maʻasiyot (Bi-defus he-ḥadash shel Shelomoh Bekhor Ḥutsin, 1891), by Eleazar ben Aaron ʻIrāqī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Qiṣṣat Natan Raṣiṣutā ([printed by Shelomoh Bekhor Hutsin], 1888) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der born Judas : legenden, märchen und erzählungen (Inselverlag, 1900), by Rahel Ramberg Bin Gorion and Micah Joseph Berdichevsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mischle Sindbad, Secundus Syntipas. Edirt, emendirt und erklärt. (Verlag des Bibliographischen Bureaus, 1891), by Paulus Cassel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lost legends of Israel. (Philosophical Library, 1961), by Dagobert D. Runes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Legende des Baalschem. (Rütten und Loening, 1920), by Martin Buber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Für unsere Jugend : ein Unterhaltungsbuch für israelitische Knaben und Mädchen (J. Kauffmann, 1916), by Elias Gut (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Lost legends of Israel. (Philosophical Library, 1961), by Dagobert D. Runes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sefer ʻOśeh pele (Mosheh Yehoshuʻah Ṭuvyana, 1870), by Yosef Shabtai Farḥi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great march : post-Biblical Jewish stories (Dept. of Synagogue and School Extension of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, 1931), by Rose G. Lurie, Todros Geller, and Union of American Hebrew Congregations. Department of Synagogue and School Extension (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ein Versuch, den Charakter Alexanders des Grossen nach der jüdischen Sage darzustellen (Mähr.-Weisskirchen : Verlag des k.k. Staatsgymnasiums, 1904., 1904), by Jakob Rabbinowicz (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prager bilbul : do ṿerṭ bashribin di geshikhṭe ṿos hoṭ zikh giṭrofin in di groyse shṭoṭ Prag ṿi zey hobin zikh gihaṭ ʻalilot dam far Pesaḥ und zey zeynen nitsul giṿorin be-derekh nes ʻa.y. ... Maharal mi-Prag ... un mir dorfin danḳen Goṭ az er hoṭ oyf unz meshaneh ʻitim giṿen le-ṭovah. (880-02 Ṿilna : [o.f.], 1869., 1869) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The chronicles of Jerahmeel. (London : The Royal Asiatic society, 1899., 1899), by 12th century Eleazar ben Asher ha-Levi, Moses Gaster, active 12th century Jerahmeel ben Solomon, and Bodleian Library (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sefer Aḥiḳar he-ḥakham (Berlin : Moriah-Devir, [683, 1923], 1923), by Ahikar and A. Yellin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fun Yidishn ḳṿal : (geshikhṭn un legendn) : a leyenbukh far shul un hoyz (Star Hebrew Book Co., 1926), by E. Y. Goldshmidṭ (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Legende von Rabbi Akiba. (J. Kauffmann, 1928), by Emil Cohn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kwiaty wschodnie; zbiór zasad moralnych, teologicznych, przysłów, reguł towarzyskich, allegoryi i powieści wyjętych z Talmudu i pism ówczesnych; ułożył A. Buchuer [sic] ... (W drukarni pod firmą M. Chmielewskiego, 1842), by Abraham Buchner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Legends from the Midrash / Israel J. Zevin (Tashrak publ, 1926), by Y. Y. Zeṿin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kol agadot Yiśraʼel (Tushiyah, 1912), by I. B. Levner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Me-agadot ha-Ḳeraʼim (Menorah, 1921), by Reuven Fahn (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Legends of Old Testament characters, from the Talmud and other sources, by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg ebook)
• From the Heart of Israel: Jewish Tales and Types, by Bernard Drachman, illust. by A. G. Warshawsky (Gutenberg ebook)

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