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'''Jakub Egit''' (27 September 1908 &ndash; 1996)<ref name="Grabski">{{cite book|last = Grabski|first = August|title = Działalność komunistyczna wśród Żydów w Polsce (1944-1949)|publisher = [[Jewish Historical Institute]]|date = 2004|___location = [[Warsaw]]|page = 108|language = Polish}}</ref> was a [[Poland|Polish]] [[Jew]]ish leader. He was born in [[Boryslav|Boryslaw]], Poland[[Austria-Hungary]]. His older brotherparents, Marek, afterand whomShaindel, and his sonsiblings, isMarcus, namedRachel, perishedReisl, inJonas theand Flossenburg concentration camp January 1Genia, 1945were onall whatkilled isbetween known1943 asand "the death march1945."

In 1945, Egit began a project to create a settlement of 50,000 Jews in [[Dzierżoniów County]] (formerly Reichenbach), incl. the town of [[Dzierżoniów]] (formerlythe Reichenbachpeak number of Jews in Drobniszew reached 17,800 in November 1946<ref>[http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/dzierzoniow/5,history/?action=view&page=10 Jewish community before 1989] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160322142355/http://www.sztetl.org.pl/en/article/dzierzoniow/5,history/?action=view |date=2016-03-22 }}</ref>), [[Bielawa]], [[Pieszyce]], [[Piława Górna]], etc., a [[recoveredRecovered territoriesTerritories|Recovered Territory]] near [[Wrocław]] in [[Silesia]], [[People's Republic of Poland]]. Egit's motivation waswanted to "exact retribution and justice by makingmake the former German territory into a Jewish settlement".{{Who|date=March 2009}} Initially, with Soviet Communist support, Egit's plan went well; starting with a small group of concentration camp survivors, the settlement grew to encompass Jewish schools, hospitals, [[kibbutzim]], orphanages and a book publisher in [[Wrocław]]. However, in 1948 the Communists withdrew their support. Egit was put in jail and the majority of [[Dzierżoniów]]'s citizens subsequently emigrated to [[Israel]].

From his release in 1950, Egit was editor of ''[[J'idysz Buch]]'' in [[Warsaw]]. In 1957 he emigrated to [[Canada]], where he became a prominent member of [[History of the Jews in Canada|Canada's Jewish community]]. In 1991, he published his autobiography ''Grand Illusion''.

Egit died in Florida in 1996.

==References==

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== Further reading ==

* ''Microcosm: Portrait of a Central European City'' [[Norman Davies]] and [[Roger Moorhouse]]

* ''Grand Illusion'', Jacob Egit

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| NAME = Egit, Jakub

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| SHORT DESCRIPTION = Canadian writer

| DATE OF BIRTH = Sept. 27, 1908

| PLACE OF BIRTH = Boryslaw, Poland

| DATE OF DEATH = 1996

| PLACE OF DEATH = Florida, USA

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