Yitzchak Lowy
Yitzchak Lowy (1887–1942), also known as Yitskhok Levi, Jizchak Löwy, Jacques Levy, Djak Levi, was a Polish Yiddish theater actor.
Early life; career
[edit]Lowy was born in Warsaw, Poland. In 1907, he joined a Yiddish theater troupe and toured Europe. From October 1911 through 1912, the troupe stayed in Prague, where Lowy became good friends with Austrian-Czech writer Franz Kafka.
Death
[edit]From the Warsaw Ghetto, it is likely that he was deported in the summer of 1942 and then murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp.[1]
See also
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References
[edit]- ^ Gray, Richard T.; Ruth V. Gross; Rolf J. Goebel (2005). A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia. pg. 183: Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 344. ISBN 0-313-30375-4.
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