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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). "Ibn Ezra, Joseph ben Isaac". The Jewish Encyclopedia . New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Its bibliography:
- Introduction to the Azamot Yosef
- David Conforte, Kore ha-Dorot, p. 43b;
- Azulai, Shem ha-Gedolim, i. 77, ii. 108;
- David Cassel, in Ersch and Gruber, Encyc. section ii., part 31, p. 74;
- Moritz Steinschneider, Cat. Bodl. col. 1460.S. I. Br.
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