Lives in the Yiddish Theatre
 SHORT BIOGRAPHIES OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THE Yiddish THEATRE
aS DESCRIBED IN zALMEN zYLBERCWEIG'S "lEKSIKON FUN YIDISHN TEATER"
 1931-1969
 

Izzy (Isak) Sapozhnikov


S. was born in 1909 in Kiev, Ukraine.

In 1925 he completed an electro-technical technium.

From 1925 until 1941, when the Soviet Union fought the Nazis, he had worked in the Yiddish theatre in Kiev as a manager of an electrical lighting business.

S. volunteered to go away to fight against the Nazis, and not [lozndik] taken in captivity, he perished bravely in 1942.


Sh. E. from Yonah Radinov.


 

 

 

 

 

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Adapted from the original Yiddish text found within the  "Lexicon of the Yiddish Theatre" by Zalmen Zylbercweig, Volume 5, page 4403.
 

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