Shakne Epshtein
Shakne Epshtein was a Russian journalist and the secretary and editor of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee 's newspaper, Eynikayt. Solomon Mikhoels, the chairman of JAC and Epshtein approached Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet foreign minister, with an idea to create a Jewish republic in the Crimea or in the Volga area. Both ideas were rejected due to the growing state-sponsored anti-semitism and Stalin's distrust of Molotov. Epshtein died in 1945.
