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- ↑ "Illustrations of Moses in the Amsterdam Haggadah, 1695". Jewish Theological Seminary. 9 January 2015. Retrieved 21 December 2019.
- ↑ Garel, M. (1987). "La première carte de terre sainte en Hébreu (Amsterdam, 1620/21)". Studia Rosenthaliana . 21 (2): 131–39.