Itzhak Neyman

Born in 1869 in Koenigsberg, Preußen. As a child of nine he came over with his parents to New York, where he was educated in a yeshiva and after became a mechanic.

At the age of thirty he went to Egypt, where he was active in several Yiddish organizations and more times divided as a member in the central committee of the lawyer's organization in Egypt.

In the early times, N. used to be taken with literary work and wrote in Hebrew and Yiddish plays and fictional work with society-like themes.

In 1904 in Cairo he staged with great success N.'s play in Yiddish "Di yrushh".

G. often experimented with various inventions in the mechanics and also [obgegeben] with painting.

After a long illness, on 28 July 1931 he passed away in a Jewish hospital in Cairo.

Necrology in "Duar hyum", Jerusalem, 4 August 1931.