Meyer Waxman

Meyer Waxman (Yiddish: מאיר וואַכסמאַן‎; 1887 – March 7, 1969) was an Imperial Russian-born American rabbi, historian, and scholar.

Waxman was born in Slutsk, and received a traditional education at Hasidic yeshivas there and in Mir.

[2] He served for some years in rabbinical posts in Sioux City and in Albany, before returning to New York to become founder and principal of the Mizrachi Teachers Seminary (1917–21).

[3] After his retirement, he left for Israel to serve as visiting professor at Bar-Ilan University.

Many of his articles were collected in volumes of essays, Ketavim Nivḥarim (2 vols., 1943–44), Galut u-Ge'ullah (1952), and Moreh ha-Dorot (1963).