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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "DORBOLO". The Jewish Encyclopedia . New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Its bibliography:
- Gross, in Berliner's Magazin, x. 75;
- Introduction to the Maḥzor Vitry, ed. Hurwitz, p. 36;
- Perles, in Grätz Jubelschrift, p. 31;
- Berliner, ib., pp. 176, 177;
- Epstein, in Monatsschrift, xli. 307;
- Charles Taylor, Appendix to The Sayings of the Jewish Fathers, pp. 12 et seq., Cambridge, 1900.