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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Singer, Isidore; et al., eds. (1901–1906). The Jewish Encyclopedia . New York: Funk & Wagnalls.{{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty|title=(help)
- ↑ "Costa [née Mendes], Catherine [Rachel] da". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/72024.(Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ↑ Adler, Cyrus; Singer, Isidore (1964). The Jewish Encyclopedia: A Descriptive Record of the History, Religion, Literature, and Customs of the Jewish People from the Earliest Times, Volume 4. Ktav. p. 289.