Judah Loeb Landau (M / Austria, 1866-1942), playwright

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Judah Loeb Landau (1866-1942) was a Austrian-born Jewish South-African playwright. Born in Galicia, in 1893 moved to Brody, Germany and then to Vienna, where he receive his rabbinical diploma in 1898. After briefly serving as the rabbi of an orthodox community in Manchester, England, finally settled in 1903 in Johannesburg, South Africa. One of the pioneers in the field of modern Hebrew drama, still in his youth wrote some powerful plays inspired by Second Temple Jewish history.

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