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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Gottheil, Richard (1903). "Eleazar, Abraham". In Singer, Isidore; et al. (eds.). The Jewish Encyclopedia . Vol. 5. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. p. 96.
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