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- ↑ "Justice, Community, and Adrienne Rich". Jewish Women's Archive . Retrieved 2022-03-29.
- ↑ "Jewish Book Month recommended reading: Adrienne Rich". Guernica. Guernica Magazine. 30 November 2007. Retrieved 2022-03-29.
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- ↑ Kerbel, Sorrel (2010). The Routledge Encyclopedia of Jewish Writers of the Twentieth Century. New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0415876414.