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- ↑ Dr. N. M. Gelber, History of the Jews in the Bukowina (1774-1914), in: Hugo Gold (ed.), History of the Jews in the Bukowina, Tel Aviv, Volume 1 (1958)
- ↑ Rozenblit, Marsha L. (2004). Reconstructing a National Identity: The Jews of Habsburg Austria During World War I. Oxford University Press US. p. 272. ISBN 978-0-19-517630-8 . Retrieved 2009-11-21., p.50 and p.187 n72
- 1 2 German : Der frühere Bürgermeister von Czerowitz Senator Dr. Salo von Weisselberger gestorben , Die Neue Welt (Vienna), March 27, 1931, nr. 186, p.6
- ↑ McCagg, William O. (1992). A history of Habsburg Jews, 1670-1918. Indiana University Press. p. 289. ISBN 978-0-253-20649-7 . Retrieved 2009-11-21., p.218
- ↑ "Rümänien - Bei den Senatswahlen in Czernowitz" (PDF) (in German). Vienna-Bratislava: Jüdische Presse ("Organ für die Interessen des orthodoxen Judentums). March 17, 1922. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 July 2011. Retrieved 21 November 2009., p.66
External links
- Photograph of (Salo von) Weisselberger, in: Hugo Gold (ed.), History of the Jews in the Bukowina, Tel Aviv, Volume 1 (1958)
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