Sapira

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

Å apira

• Jankelis Å apira, member of the Vilnius Soviet of Workers Deputies, 1919
• Judal Å apira, killed under Stalin (1937 mass execution of Belarusians)
• or Haim Nachman Shapira (1895-1943), Semitologist and Zionist, lived mainly in Lithuania
• Leiba Å apira, member of the Lithuanian Central Bureau of the Young Communist League of Lithuania and Belorussia (1919-1920)
• Zalmenas Å apira, 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 which Sapira, Spero, etc. are based on
• Hakham Sapira Synagogue, Tunis