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| − | [[Morris Waxman]] (1876-1931)[https://www.jta.org/1931/11/06/archive/death-of-morris-waxman-famous-yiddish-actor-was-well-known-figure-in-london] was a Yiddish actor, active in England and the USA.
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| − | He was born in Lodz, in Poland, and went to London with his parents when he was 15, his father occupying a post as Cantor in the Blashke Synagogue in London for 25 years. His grandfather, Rabbi Jacob Waxman, was Rabbi of Blashke.
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| − | He died in Los Angeles of heart failure on November 6, 1931.
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| − | Mr. Waxman, who was 55 years of age, was In London, he and his sister, Fanny Waxman, who is now a well-known Yiddish actress, joined the choir of the Yiddish Theatre, and were also given small parts. As a boy in Poland he had already played in amateur Yiddish theatricals. He toured for a time on the ### and when he returned to London in 1896 he played with Kessler, Feinman, Magulesco, and other famous Yiddish actors. He was invited t o go to America and there he played with Jacob Adler in New York and in many other American cities. He was in London again a few years later, and then went to South Africa where he played in English productions.
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| − | In 1906 Waxman started the London Yiddish Theatre at the Pavilion in Whitechapel, and he was one of the founders of the Company which was formed to establish a permanent Yiddish Art Theatre, in London, which became the Feinman Yiddish People’s Art Theatre named in honour of Sigismund Feinman, who had recently died. The Theatre is now a cinema.
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| − | He played in London many times after that, between tours in the Argentine and the various countries in Eastern Europe. In 1920, after playing a season at the Pavilion Theatre in London, he appeared at the Court Theatre in London in an English play by Mr. Bertram Jacobs, called “The Priest and the Jew”.
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| − | Since his return to America soon after, he had been touring the country mostly in English plays on Jewish themes.
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| − | == Sources ==
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| − | "Death of Morris Waxman Famous Yiddish Actor: Was Well-known Figure in London", ''Jewish Telegraphic Agency Archive''[https://www.jta.org/1931/11/06/archive/death-of-morris-waxman-famous-yiddish-actor-was-well-known-figure-in-London]
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