Yitzchak_Lowy

Yitzchak Lowy

Yitzchak Lowy

Polish theatre actor

Yitzchak Lowy (1887–1942), also known as Yitskhok Levi, Jizchak Löwy, Jacques Levy, Djak Levi, was a Polish Yiddish theater actor.

Lowy was born in Warsaw, Poland. In 1907, he joined a Yiddish theater troupe and toured Europe. From October 1911 through 1912 the troupe stated in Prague, where Lowy became good friends with Franz Kafka. He was murdered in the Treblinka extermination camp.[1]

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    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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
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