Sapira Explained

Sapira, Şapira and Šapira are variants of the Jewish Ashkenazi surname Shapiro.

Notable people with the surname include:

Sapira

• Emmanuel Sapira (1900–1943), Romanian-born Belgian chess master
• Mircea Sapira, participant at 1937 World Table Tennis Championships – Men's team of Romania
• Sylvia Sapira, (1908–1981) American harpsichordist

Șapira

• Avraham Șapira, deputy of Guttman Landau, president of the Chișinău Ghetto Committee

Šapira

• Jankelis Šapira, member of the Vilnius Soviet of Workers Deputies, 1919
• Judal Šapira, killed under Stalin (1937 mass execution of Belarusians)
• or Haim Nachman Shapira (1895-1943), Semitologist and Zionist, lived mainly in Lithuania
• Leiba Šapira, member of the Lithuanian Central Bureau of the Young Communist League of Lithuania and Belorussia (1919-1920)
• Zalmenas Šapira, secretary of the communist Lithuanian People's Aid Union

See also

• Shapiro, surname (article); variants:
  • Chapiro
  • Sapir (surname)
  • Sapiro
  • Schapira
  • Schapiro
  • Shapero
  • Shapira
  • Spear (surname)
  • Spero
  • Spira (surname)
  • Spiro (surname)
  • Szapiro
  • Szpiro
  • Spire – see André Spire
• Speyer, the German city from which Sapira, Spero, etc. are based off of
• Hakham Sapira Synagogue, Tunis