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References
- Moritz Steinschneider, Hebr. Bibl. xiii. 106 et seq.;
- Heinrich Grätz, Gesch.der Juden, vi. 1, note 1; vii. 41;
- idem, Schechet Benveniste über Maimuni's Wirksamkeit, in Monatsschrift, xxv. 509 et seq. (the letter is reprinted in Grätz, Hebr. tr. H. Appendix, p. 11);
- Revue. Etudes Juives, xxxix. 62 et seq., 217 et seq.
