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- ↑ Kayserling, Meyer (1890). "Baroccas, Mordechay". Biblioteca española-portugueza-judaica: Dictionnaire bibliographique des auteurs juifs, de leurs ouvrages espagnols et portugais et des oeuvres sur et contre les Juifs et le judaïsme (in French). C. J. Trubner – via Google Books.
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