Prominent Jewish figures in the civil and military life of the Soviet Union paid tribute today to Shachno Epstein, executive-secretary of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, who died early Saturday of a cerebral hemorrhage.
Mr. Epstein, who was 64 at the time of his death, had been a writer and editor for 40 years and played a prominent part in the Russian revolutionary movement. After being arrested several times in Russia for illegal activities, he fled to the United States in 1907 and was active in the Socialist movement there until 1917, when he returned to the Soviet Union.
After editing several newspapers in Russia, in 1921 he again went to the United States where he remained until 1927 when he returned to Russia. During his second period of residence in America he was a founder and editor of the New York Communist Yiddish newspaper “Freiheit.”
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