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'''Jakub Egit''' (born 1908) was a [[ZionistPoland|Poish]] leader and [[SovietJew]]ish soldierleader.

In 1945, Egit began a project to create a settlement of 50,000 Jews in the town of [[Dzierżoniów]] (formerly Reichenbach), a [[recovered territories|Recovered Territory]] near [[Wrocław]] in [[Silesia]], [[People's Republic of Poland]]. Egit's motivation was to "exact retribution and justice by making the former German territory 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]].

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[[Category:1908 births]]

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[[Category:Silesian Jews]]

[[Category:Soviet Jews]]

[[Category:Russian Jews]]

[[Category:Russian people of Polish descent]]

[[Category:Jewish Canadian writers]]

[[Category:Russian expatriates in Canada]]

[[Category:Canadian Zionists]]

[[Category:People from Dzierżoniów]]