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Lives in the Yiddish
Theatre
Meier/Morris/Maurice
Axelrad (1879-1953), born
At the age of
thirteen, Morris joined a circus and became the camel keeper.
After this he returned home without any money and thus decided to
act
Morris' choice of a
theater career caused Morris' parents to sit shiva for him.
Ties were broken with |
Further, Morris' brother David Axelrad became a scenery painter in the Yiddish Theatre and several others in the family followed his lead into the performance end of the Theatre even in America. However, his nephew, Dr. Jacob Weingreen (1907-1995) took a more scholarly route and became the first Hebrew Chair at Trinity College in Dublin and author of a definitive Hebrew grammar entitled "A Practical Grammar of Classical Hebrew." He and his wife Bertha (who was from South Africa) also played a pivotal role in assisting Holocaust survivors. |
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