Shakne Epshtein

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Shakne Epshtein was a Jewish-Russian journalist and the secretary and editor of the JAC's newspaper, Einikait (Unity). Solomon Mikhoels, the chairman of JAC and Epshtein approached Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet foreign minister and a Stalin's henchman, with an idea of creation of a Jewish republic in the Crimea or in the Volga area (in place of the dismantled Volga Germans republic). Both ideas were rejected due to the growing state sponsored of anti-semitism and Stalin's distrust of Molotov. He died in 1945.

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