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Gertrude Landa

Best known for retelling Jewish folklore for young readers, this British writer also worked as a journalist, novelist, and playwright. Writing under the name “Aunt Naomi,” she helped bring Jewish stories and family life into popular early 20th-century print.

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Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends

Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends

by Gertrude Landa

About the author

Born Hannah Annie Gertrude Gordon Landa in 1892, she was a British Jewish journalist, novelist, and playwright who is often listed simply as Gertrude Landa. She also wrote under the pseudonym “Aunt Naomi,” a name connected with her work for younger readers.

She wrote a children’s column for the Jewish Chronicle and published Jewish Fairy Tales and Legends in 1919, a collection that helped preserve and share traditional Jewish stories in an accessible way. Sources consulted during this search also describe her as the sister of writer Samuel Gordon.

Gertrude Landa was married to the Anglo-Jewish writer Myer Jack Landa, and the two are said to have collaborated on novels and plays. She died in 1941.