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- ↑ "Yiddisher Black cantors from 100 years ago rediscovered thanks to rare recording". The Times of Israel . Retrieved 2022-04-23.
- ↑ "Black Jewish Congregations in Harlem". New York 1920s. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
- ↑ "Object Lesson: James Van Der Zee photographs of Daddy Grace and Rabbi Mordecai Herman". New Orleans Museum of Art. 31 March 2020. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
- ↑ "A Black-Jewish perspective on the Jazz Age". The Times of Israel . Retrieved 2022-04-23.
- ↑ "Black Culture and Black Zion". Swarthmore College . Retrieved 2022-04-23.
- ↑ "On Jerusalem Walls, Artist Memorializes Black Rabbi from Harlem". The Forward. 31 March 2016. Retrieved 2022-04-23.
- ↑ "A Case of Mistaken Identity: Black Jews & Hebrew Israelites". TribeHerald.com. 16 August 2020. Retrieved 2022-04-23.