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Since early 1900th was one of the leaders of the World Jewish Health
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historian, scholar, and politician, and one of the leaders of
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public profile, with a comment of his grandson (a correction). In English
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Der Handel der westeuropäischen Juden mit dem alten
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Studies in History, vol.2. Vilna, 1937 (in Yiddish)
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