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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Rosenthal, Herman (1901). "Abba Glusk Leczeka". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia . Vol. 1. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 31.
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