Siegmund zishe breitbart biography
Meet the Jewish Circus Performer Who Could Bend Iron with His ...!
Zishe Breitbart
Polish circus performer
Zishe Breitbart | |
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Breitbart in 1923 | |
| Born | Siegmund Breitbart (1893-02-22)22 February 1893 Stryków, Congress Poland |
| Died | 12 October 1925(1925-10-12) (aged 32) Berlin, Germany |
| Known for | Strongman 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 zishe breitbart biography
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