There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok
There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok by Yaffa Eliach
English | January 1, 1998 | ISBN: 0316232521, 0316232394, 9780316593564 | True EPUB | 818 pages | 98.3 MB
English | January 1, 1998 | ISBN: 0316232521, 0316232394, 9780316593564 | True EPUB | 818 pages | 98.3 MB
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