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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Orient recording company notes by historian pl:Jerzy Płaczkiewicz - ↑ http://yiddishmusic.jewniverse.info/astonadam/index.html Biographies of noted Jewish musicians
- ↑ Biblioteka Polskiej Piosenki
