Siegmund zishe breitbart biography

          A Polish-born circus performer, vaudeville strongman and Jewish folklore hero..

          Zishe Breitbart

          Polish circus performer

          Zishe Breitbart

          Breitbart in 1923

          Born

          Siegmund Breitbart


          (1893-02-22)22 February 1893

          Stryków, Congress Poland

          Died12 October 1925(1925-10-12) (aged 32)

          Berlin, Germany

          Known forStrongman feats

          Siegmund Breitbart (22 February 1893 – 12 October 1925), also known popularly as Zishe or Sische Breitbart (Yiddish: זישע ברייטבאַרט), was a Polish-born circus performer, vaudevillestrongman and Jewish folklore hero.

          Siegmund Breitbart was born on Feb. 22, , into a poor Orthodox Jewish family in Lodz, Poland.

        1. Siegmund “Zishe” Breitbart was born in into a family of blacksmiths from Stryków, a town in Poland located not far from Łódź.
        2. A Polish-born circus performer, vaudeville strongman and Jewish folklore hero.
        3. Siegmund “Zishe” Breitbart was born to a family of locksmiths in Lodz (now Poland, then Russia) in In his autobiography, he reports.
        4. Siegmund Breitbart was born on February 22nd, in Stryków, near Łódź, Poland.

          5. He was known as the "Strongest Man in the World" and Eisenkönig ("Ironking") during the 1920s.

          Early life

          Breitbart was born into an observant Jewish family of blacksmiths in Stryków near Łódź (Poland), on February 22, 1893.[1]

          Strongman

          Breitbart performed extensively in Europe and America touring with the Circus Busch using a strength act themed to fit his former background as a blacksmith.

          He bent iron bars around his arm in floral patterns, bit through iron