There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok - Hardcover

Eliach, Yaffa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316232521 ISBN 13: 9780316232524

Publisher: Little Brown & Co, 1998

Synopsis

Traces the history of the Jewish community in Eisiskes, Lithuania, describes its social life and customs, and puts a human face on one of the many villages destroyed by the Nazis

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Review:

Eishyshok, in Lithuania, was for nine centuries a center of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, where Jews lived "under all the various governments that had fought for control of it: Lithuanian, Polish, German, Russian, and Soviet." But as a result of the Holocaust, writes Eishyshok native Yaffa Eliach in this rich, vastly detailed history, "nearly a millennium of vibrant Jewish life had been reduced to stark images of victimization and death." Eliach offers his chronicle by way of a memorial to those lost citizens and their disappeared history, working through archives, family photo albums, and the memories of survivors. It is a fine and fitting memorial indeed, one that ranks alongside the important work of Raul Hilberg and Lucy Dawidowicz. --Gregory McNamee

About the Author:

Along with Jacqueline Onassis, Eliach was named one of CBS TV's Women of the Year in 1994. She has also been profiled in People, Vogue, USA Today and The Washington Post.

About this edition

• Publisher: Little Brown & Co
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0316232521
• ISBN 13: 9780316232524
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 818