Shahak Shapira
German-Israeli artist, comedian, author and musician (b. 1988)
Shahak Shapira (Hebrew: שחק שפירא, born 1 April 1988) is a German-Israeli artist, comedian, author and musician. He is currently based in Berlin, Germany.
Early life
Shapira was born in Petah Tikva, Israel and raised in Oranit. Shapira's maternal grandfather was a Holocaust survivor. Shapira's paternal grandfather, Amitzur Shapira, was an Israeli sprinter and a coach for the Israeli track and field team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany. He was murdered by Palestinian militants in the Munich massacre.
In 2002, Shapira immigrated with his mother and younger brother to Germany. The family took residence in the small town of Laucha in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt. With the Neo-Nazi party (NPD) reaching its statewide highest outcome of 13.55% in 2009's local elections, Shapira described the town as an "eastern German NPD-Stronghold". In 2010, Shapira's younger brother was physically attacked and called a "Jewish pig" by a right-wing extremist.
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