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- ↑ "Surname Database: Lapidus Last Name Origin". The Internet Surname Database. Retrieved 1 February 2019.
- ↑ Wexler, Paul (December 1987). Explorations in Judeo-Slavic linguistics. Brill. p. 50. ISBN 978-90-04-07656-3.
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