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- ↑ Leveson, Marcia (1996). People of the Book: Images of the Jew in South African English Fiction, 1880-1992. Witwatersrand University Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-1-86814-263-7.
- ↑ Spolsky, Bernard (27 March 2014). The Languages of the Jews: A Sociolinguistic History. Cambridge University Press. p. 229. ISBN 978-1-139-91714-8.
