Elliot N. Dorff; Jonathan K. Crane (2016). The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Ethics and Morality(en inglés). ISBN0190608382. «Born in Zhagory, Lithuania, in 1810, Lipkin studied as a youth with Rabbi Tzvi Hirsh Braude of Salant, and under Rabbi Yosef Zundel of Salant.»
«Ohr Yisroel, Rabbi Salanter - Part 1»(en inglés). 1 de marzo de 2013. «Rabbi Salanter was appointed Rosh Yeshiva of Tomchai Torah in Vilna about 1842.»