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

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.

Works

Plays

• Bar Kokhba (1884 Landau), play
• The Destruction of Jerusalem (1885 Landau), play
• Herod, King of the Jews (1887 Landau), play
• Alexander Jannaeus (1897 Landau), play

External links

• Wikipedia.de