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- ↑ Paul Kriwaczek, Yiddish Civilisation, Vintage Books, © 2005, p. 247: 'Der Rebbe Elimelech,' inspired by the children's song 'Old King Cole,' was the work of a Communist satirist... Isaac Reis, who went by the pen-name Moshe Nadir, Moses the Rare."
- ↑ https://folkways.si.edu/mark-olf/der-rebbe-elimelech-the-rabbi-elimelech/judaica/music/track/smithsonian
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