In the 1920s, the son of a destitute blacksmith from Lodz, Poland, amazed the world with his feats of strength. Heralded as the modern Samson and the Iron King, Zishe Breitbart became a Jewish folk hero, twisting bars of iron, pulling trains by his teeth and killing bulls with his fists.
\n\”I do not see Jews as victims fated to perish in a Holocaust,\” says German filmmaker Werner Herzog. \”I see them as the strongest and most confident people in the world.\”\n\nTrue to this vision, Herzog has titled his latest film \”Invincible.\” At its center, he has put Zishe Breitbart, an actual, shtetl-raised, pious blacksmith, who in the early 1930s was acclaimed by German and American audiences as \”the strongest man in the world.\”
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