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- Bernfeld, Toledot ha-Reformazion be-Yisraél, p. 199, Cracow, 1900;
- Allg. Zeit. des Jud. 1845, p. 125; 1853, p. 664;
- Heinrich Grätz, Gesch. xi. 480, 482, 517;
- Jost's Annalen, ii. 219; iii. 217, 225, 235, 250, 268;
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