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- ↑ 1972 Encyclopedia Judaica: "Eliezer ben Joel HaLevi of Bonn"
- ↑ Trachtenberg, Joshua (2004) [Originally published 1939]. Jewish Magic and Superstition. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. p. 318. ISBN 9780812218626.
