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• Legends of the Patriarchs and Prophets and Other Old Testament Characters, from Various Sources (New York: American Book Exchange, 1881), by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Legends of the Jews (legends volumes only (others are not public domain)), by Louis Ginzberg, trans. by Henrietta Szold and Paul Radin, contrib. by Isaac Husik (Gutenberg and Internet Archive texts and page images)

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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 (legends volumes only (others are not public domain)), 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
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  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • 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)
• From the heart of Israel. (New York, J. Pott & company, 1905), by Bernard Drachman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Big Bible stories. (Lilly Dale, N.Y. : W.H. Bach, 1897), by W. H. Bach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der born Judas : legenden, märchen und erzählungen / (Leipzig : Inselverlag, [1922-24]), by Rahel Ramberg Bin Gorion and Micah Joseph Berdichevsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Bobe mays̀e : ... uf ʻIvri Ṭoyṭsh ... (Ṿarsha : Drukarnie H. E. Bomberg, 1861) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tseʼenah u-reʼenah : ʻim hosofes rabes ... (Nyu Yorḳ : Hibru poblishing ḳompani, 673 [1912 or 1913]), by Yaakov ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Sagen der Juden : [jüdische Sagen und Mythen] / (Frankfurt a. M. : Rüttem & Loening, 1919), by Micah Joseph Berdichevsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Heimann Hurwitzens Sagen der Ebräer : aus den Schriften der alten ebräischen Weisen, mit nachgewiesenen Stellen, wo solche im Talmud und in den Midraschim zu finden sind, mit mehreren neu hinzuekommenen Erzählungen und mit einer Einleitung versehen / (Nördlingen : In Commission der C. H. Beck'schen Buchhandlung, [pref. 1828]), by Hyman Hurwitz (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sagen polnischer Juden / (Berlin : B. Harz, 1920.), by Alexander Eliasberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Leaves of antiquity; the poetry of Hebrew tradition; (Boston, Universalist Pub. House, 1893), by Johann Gottfried Herder and Caroline Mehetabel Fisher Sawyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tseʼenah u-reʼenah : ʻim hosafot rabot ... Ṿi oykh di folgende mayles̀ ṿehesefes̀ Pninem yeḳarem ... ([New York] : Hibru Poblishing Ḳo., 663 [1902 or 1903]), by Yaakov ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi (page images at HathiTrust)
• In the Pale : stories and legends of the Russian Jews / (Philadelphia : Coates, 1900), by Henry Iliowizi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kol agadot Yiśraʾel. (Piotrków : Hotsaʾat Tushiyah, 600- [1839 or 1840- ]), by I. B. Levner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rabbinic wisdom / (Cincinnati : Union of American Hebrew Congregations, c1921), by Jennie Reizenstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die legende des Baalschem / (Frankfurt am Main : Literarische Anstalt, Rütten und Loening, 1908), by Martin Buber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The legends of the Old Testament, traced to their apparent primitive sources. (London, Trübner, 1874), by Thomas Lumisden Strange (page images at HathiTrust)
• Religionsgeschichtliche Studien/ (Leipzig: O. Leiner, 1876), by Moritz Güdemann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Semitic legends : a paper read before the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool / (Liverpool, 1874), by Baron Louis Benas (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Born Judas : Legenden, Märchen und Erzählungen / (Leipzig, Insel-Verlag, [1916-1922]), by Micah Joseph Berdichevsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Leaves of antiquity : or, The poetry of the Hebrew tradition / (New York : Hallock and Lyon, 1849), by Johann Gottfried Herder, Caroline M. Sawyer, and Caroline Mehetabel Fisher Sawyer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Qṣt Ntn Rṣyṣtʼ. ([Baghdad] : [printed by Shelomoh Bekhor Hutsin], [between 1888 and 1900]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jeschurun : Taschenbuch für Schilderungen und Anklänge aus dem Leben der Juden auf das Jahr 5601 israelitischer Zeitrechnung / (Leipzig : Verlag von L. Fort, 1841), by Siegmund Frankenburg and Carl Maien (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sipurim : ayne zammlung : Yidisher folḳszagen, miṭhen, legenden, ḳroniḳen ... / (Prag : Ṿ. Pasheles, 624 [1863 or 1864]), by Wolf Pascheles (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 / (London : Royal Asiatic Society, 1899), by ha-Leṿi Elʻazar ben Asher, Moses Gaster, 12th cent Jerahmeel ben Solomon, and Bodleian Library. Manuscript. Hebrew d.11 (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 / (Ramsgate : The College, 1896), by England) Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate, Moses Gaster, and England). Report for the year 1895-1896 Judith Montefiore College (Ramsgate (page images at HathiTrust)
• Cristiani ed Ebrei nel Medio Evo : quadro di costumi ; con un ̀appendice di ricordi e leggende giudaiche della medesima epoca / (Firenze : Successori le Monnier, 1866), by Giuseppe Levi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Jewish story book. (London, 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 / (Nuyork ̣: Shiloh, 679, 1919), by Zẹvi Scharfstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jüdische Legenden / (Berlin : Modernes Verlagsbureau, 1909), by Leo Tolstoy, Emanuel Mischnajewsky-Runin, and J. Teneromo (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Kol agadot Yiśraʾel. (Warsaw : [s.n.], 662-670, 1902-1910), by I. B. Levner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sipurim = Lehrreiche Erzählungen und Anekdoten gesammelt aus dem Talmud, den Medraschim und anderen jüdischen Schriften. (Hannover, A. Weichelt, 1877), by S. E. Blogg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Me-otsar ha-agadah. (Berlin, "Aḥisefer,", [1913], 674), by Micah Joseph Berdichevsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ewige Weisheit : Spruchpoesie des Talmud und der rabbinischen Literatur, nebst Fabeln, Parabeln und Sagen derselben / (Halle a.S. : Otto Hendel, [1908]), by Max Weinberg (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die legenden der Juden, (Berlin, C.A. Schwetschke & sohn, 1919), by Judah Bergmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Leben und Worte des Balschemm; nach Chassidischen Schriften. (Berlin, Welt-Verlag, [1920]), by Solomon Asher Birnbaum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Legende des Baalschem. (Frankfurt am Main, Rütten und Loening, 1920), by Martin Buber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Jüdische Sagen und Legenden für jung und alt (Frankfurt am Main, J. Kauffmann, 1902-), by Bernhard Kuttner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der born Judas; Legenden, Märchen und Erzählungen, (Leipzig, [1919-24]), by Micah Joseph Berdichevsky (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Israëlitische Galerij, of Verzameling van joodsche Legenden, Mythen, Kronijken, Vertellingen, enz.... (Amsterdam, 1853), by L. Goudsmit (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jødiske noveller, fortaellinger og folkesagn. (København, A.F.Høst, 1861.), by Asser Daniel Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lost legends of Israel. (New York, Philosophical Library, [c1961]), by Dagobert D. Runes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Or le-yud dalet : hu maʾamar binat-mashal : yafits or ʻal arbaʻah ʻaśar maʾamre hagadah [Mythen] be-divre hạzal ... (Odesa, bi-defus M. A. Belinson, 624 [1864]), by Isaac Baer Levinsohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah ʻim megilot ṿe-hafṭarot : bi-leshon Ashkenaz : tseʼenah u-reʼenah. (Zultsbakh : Be-vet uvi-defus Zeḳel ben Aharon, 549 [1789]), by Yaakov ben Yitzchak Ashkenazi (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jüdische Sagen und Legenden für jung und alt, (Frankfurt am Main, J. Kauffmann, 1920), by Bernhard Kuttner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Ursprung der sagen van Abraham, Isaac und Jacob. (Berlin, F. Duncker, 1871), by Aaron David Bernstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sagen des Morgenlandes. (Berlin, W. Adolf u. co., 1852), ed. by Julius Kossarski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Lost legends of Israel. (New York : Philosophical Library, [1961]), by Dagobert D. Runes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Treasures of two worlds : unpublished legends and traditions of the Jewish nation / (Los Angeles : [s.l.], c1910), by Naphtali Herz Imber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Prager golem, von seiner "geburt" bis zu seinem "tod"; (Berlin, B. Harz, 1920), by Chajim Bloch and Hans Ludwig Held (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Der Bibelschatz : ein Familienbuch für jeden Stand, besonders für Frauen und für die reifere Jugend beiderlei Geschlechtes ... / (Prag : S. Freund, 1859), by J. H. Kohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Bibelschatz : ein Familienbuch vorzg̈lich für Frauen und für die reifere Jugend beiderlei Geschlechtes ... / (Prag : Landau, 1857), by J. H. Kohn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Legende des Baal-schem. (Frankfurt am Main, Literarische Anstalt, Rütten und Loening, 1922 [c1916]), by Martin Buber (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Rabbinische Legenden / (Wien, Carl Armbruster, 1821), by Gottlieb von Leon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Evreĭskī͡ia legendy po Talmudu, midrashim i drugim pervoistochnikam : ot sotvorenī͡ia Mīra do smerti Moisei͡a / (Varshava : Sīon, 1903), by I. B. Levner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Das Buch der Sagen und Legenden jüdischer Vorzeit / (Stuttgart : Verlag der J. F. Cast'schen Buchhandlung, 1842), by Abraham M. Tendlau (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Legende des Baalschem / (Frankfurt am Main : Literarische Anstalt Rütten und Loening, c1916), by Martin Buber (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. (Ṿarsha : M.Y. Fayerman, 1892) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sefer Shivḥe ha-Beshṭ : ṿe-hu sipure niflaʼot ... ha-rav ... M. Yiśraʼel Beshṭ . (Lemberg : [Ḥ. mo. l.], 645 [1884 or 1885]), by of Linits Dov Baer ben Samuel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sefer ha-maʻaśiyot : kolel maʻaśim niflaʼim ṿe-sipurim noraʼim ha-ʻorerim ha-libot le-yirʼah ule-ahavah et H. ... / (Bagdad : Bi-defus he-ḥadash shel Shelomoh Bekhor Ḥutsin, 652 [1891 or 1892]), by Eleazar ben Aaron ʻIrāqī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mischle Sindbad, Secundus Syntipas. Edirt, emendirt und erklärt. (Berlin, Verlag des Bibliographischen Bureaus, 1891), ed. by Paulus Cassel (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Golem; legends of the ghetto of Prague, (Vienna, Golem, [©1925]), by Chajim Bloch, trans. by Harry Schneiderman (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Abraham, Isaak und Jakob; Auswahl aus den Sagen der Juden, hrsg. (Frankfurt a. M., Literarische Anstalt, Rütten & Loening, 1917), by Micah Joseph Berdichevsky, trans. by Rahel Bin Gorion (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sipure lamed ṿaṿ tsadiḳim : ayngeṭeylṭ in tsṿey ṭheylen loyṭ A.B ... (Ṿarsha, 672 [1912]) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sippurim, Prager Sammlung jüdischer Legenden in neuer Auswahl und Bearbeitung. (Wien : R. Löwit, 1921) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Altjüdische Legenden : eine Auswahl aus dem Born Judas /, by Micah Joseph Berdichevsky and Rahel Bin Gorion (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Liḳuṭe agadah : mi-tokh ha-Talmud ṿeha-midrash/ (Nuyorḳ : Shiloh, 679-[1918 or 1919]), by Ẓevi Scharfstein (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die sagen der Juden. Gesammelt und bearbeitet von Micha Josef bin Gorion ... (Frankfurt a. M., Rütten & Loening, 1913-27), by Micah Joseph Berdichevsky, Emanuel Bin-Gorion, Rahel Bin Gorion, and Midrash (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Die Sagen der Juden. (Frankfurt a. M. : Rüttem & Loening, 1914-27), by Micah Joseph Berdichevsky, Emanuel Bin-Gorion, and Rahel Ramberg Bin Gorion (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Für unsere Jugend : ein Unterhaltungsbuch für israelitische Knaben und Mädchen / (Frankfurt am Main : J. Kauffmann, [1916?-), by Elias Gut (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Neue beiträge zur semitischen sagenkunde, (Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1893), by Max Grünbaum (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fairy tales from grandfather's big book : Jewish legends of old retold for young people / (New York : Behrman's House, Inc., 1949, c1938), by Edith Lindeman Calisch (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. (London, The Royal Asiatic society, 1899), by 14th cent Eleazar ben Asher ha-Levi, Moses Gaster, active 12th century Jerahmeel ben Solomon, and Bodleian Library. Manuscript. (Hebrew d. 11.) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• ʻOśeh pele : maʻaśeh Shelomoh, nes Purim, megilat Yehudit, megilat Anṭiyokhus, maʻaśeh yerushalmi, sipur bustanaʼi : ... bi-sheloshah ḥalaḳim / (Livorno : Mosheh Yehoshuʻah Ṭuvyana, 630, 1870), by Yosef Shabtai Farḥi (page images at HathiTrust)
• The legends of the Jews, (Philadelphia, The Jewish publication society of America, 1909-38), by Louis Ginzberg and Boaz Cohen, trans. by Henrietta Szold and Paul Radin (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• From the Heart of Israel: Jewish Tales and Types, by Bernard Drachman, illust. by A. G. Warshawsky (Gutenberg ebook)

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