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- ↑ Louanges des Sages (PDF) (in French). Association des Juifs Originaires de Tunisie. p. 2.
- 1 2 Valensi, Lucette; Udovitch, Abraham (1984). Juifs en terre d'islam : les communautés de Djerba (in French). Paris: Archives contemporaines. pp. 17–18. ISBN 2-903928-05-3.
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