Shakne Epshtein

Shakne Epshtein was a Belarusian Jewish journalist, active in the United States and Soviet Union, who served as 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 establish a Jewish autonomy in Crimea. The proposal was rejected.
File:Jewish-Federation-1917.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.3|Leadership of the Jewish Socialist Federation in 1917.
Seated : Ben-Tsien Hofman, Max Goldfarb, Morris Winchevsky, A. Litvak, Hannah Salutsky, Moishe Terman.
Standing: 'Shauchno Epstein', Frank Rozenblat, Baruch Charney Vladeck, Moissaye Olgin, Jacob Salutsky.