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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Jacobs, Joseph; Seligsohn, M. (1903). "Conat, Abraham ben Solomon". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia . Vol. 4. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. pp. 203–204.
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