Jakub Egit (27 September 1908–1996) was a Polish Jewish leader. He was born in Boryslaw, Poland. His parents Marek and Shaindel and siblings, Marcus, Rachel, Reisl, Jonas, and Genia were all killed in 1943-45.In 1945, Egit began a project to create a settlement of 50,000 Jews in the town of Dzierżoniów (formerly Reichenbach), a Recovered Territory near Wrocław in Silesia, People's Republic of Poland.