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- Perles, in Revue Etudes Juives, i.299;
- idem, Beiträge zur Gesch. der Hebr. und Aramäischen Studien, Munich, 1884, pp. 154, 180;
- Steinschneider, in Hebräische Bibliographie, xxi.81.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Baruch of Benevento". The Jewish Encyclopedia . New York: Funk & Wagnalls.
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