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- ↑ Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora
- ↑ What's in a name? Kaplan at JewishGen.org
- ↑ Patrick Hanks & Flavia Hodges ‘A Dictionary of Surnames’ OUP 1989 ‘Kaplan’
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