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  • ...lip Trust Fund, the Nightingale House home for elderly Jews and the Ealing Jewish Youth Club.<ref name=rats/> He is the father of entertainers [[Kaplan Kaye]] and Melody Kaye.
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  • [[Category:British entertainers]] [[Category:British people of Polish-Jewish descent]]
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  • ...front-of-cloth variety turn", he was one of the United Kingdom's foremost entertainers during the [[Second World War]].<ref name="sweet">{{cite web |last1=Sweet | ...he time of the [[Second World War]], Trinder was one of Britain's foremost entertainers and regularly appeared in his own shows at the London Palladium.<ref name="
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  • ...May 2003 |access-date=10 May 2019 |quote=Me mam was from Germany. She was Jewish. I think most of her family got killed off in the Holocaust.}}{{subscriptio ...nfused his personality", eroding "a virtuosity equalled by only a very few entertainers".<ref name="Timesobit"/>
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  • ...m "Bill" Sellers and Agnes Doreen "Peg" ({{née}} Marks). Both were variety entertainers; Peg was in the Ray Sisters troupe.<ref name="Milligan (DNB)" /> Although c ...led that a teacher scolded the other boys for not studying, saying: "''The Jewish boy knows his [[w:catechism|catechism]] better than the rest of you!''"{{sf
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  • ...3}}}} At the time of his birth, Chaplin's parents were both [[music hall]] entertainers. Hannah, the daughter of a shoemaker,{{sfn|Robinson|p=3}} had a brief and u ...brief attempt at a solo act was a failure.{{efn|Chaplin attempted to be a "Jewish comedian", but the act was poorly received and he performed it only once.{{
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