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- 1 2 3 Edna Nahshon, profile at the JTS
- ↑ Edna Nahshon's Oral History (video with transcript)
- ↑ YIDDISH THEATER IN AMERICA – AN OVERVIEW, "About the Speaker"
- ↑ "Jews and shoes", WorldCat