Yitzchak Lowy
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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 | edit source]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 | edit source]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
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- 1887 births
- 1942 deaths
- 20th-century Polish male actors
- Expatriate male actors
- Jewish Polish male actors
- Male actors from Warsaw
- Polish expatriates in the Czech Republic
- Polish Jews who died in the Holocaust
- Polish male stage actors
- Polish people who died in Treblinka extermination camp
- Yiddish theatre performers
- Polish stage actor stubs
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