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- ↑ Dorit Sallis; Marek Web (1996). Jewish Documentary Sources in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus: A Preliminary List. Jewish Theological Seminary of America. p. 118.
- 1 2 3 David Shneer (13 February 2004). Yiddish and the Creation of Soviet Jewish Culture: 1918-1930. Cambridge University Press. p. 249. ISBN 978-0-521-82630-3.
- ↑ L'Internationale communiste: organe du Comité exécutif de l'Internationale communiste, eds. 9-12. Smolny. 1920. p. 1352.
- 1 2 National Library of Russia. Yiddish Newspapers (in the Latin alphabet) Archived 2017-07-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry The Hebrew University Jonathan Frankel Tamara and Saveli Grinberg Professor of Russian Studies, Jerusalem (Emeritus) (22 April 2005). Dark Times, Dire Decisions : Jews and Communism: Jews and Communism. Oxford University Press. p. 63. ISBN 978-0-19-534613-8.