There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok
by Yaffa Eliach
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For 900 years the Polish shtetl was a home to generations of Jewish families. In 1944 almost every Jew was murdered and with them died a way of life that had survived for centuries. Yaffa Eliach has written a landmark history of the shtetl.Tags
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A detailed, meticulously researched, and sobering account of one village's rich history and heritage and ultimate destruction in the Holocaust. Has many interesting individuals coupled with photographs and is a book that has a strong impact on any reader regardless of background. The compelling interest and life's work of the author. Long narrative, but never seems so because of the subject and the author's skill. Have read the twice.
Eliach's Nine century saga of Eastern European Jewish life is richer and fuller than any other written.
NO OF PAGES: 818 SUB CAT I: Holiness SUB CAT II: European Jews SUB CAT III: DESCRIPTION: Professor Yaffa Eliach, whose haunting collection of photographs at the Holocaust Memorial Museum gave faces to a murdered people, has written the history of that people. Eliach's nine-century saga of Eastern European Jewish life is richer and fuller than any ever written. Her research took her from family attics on six continents to state archives no scholar had seen since the start of the Cold War. Confronted with the near disappearance of the world of the shtetl, Eliach was indefatigable in her search for the truth--of a people, a place, a culture.NOTES: SUBTITLE: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok
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Yaffa Eliach was born Yaffa Sonenson in Eishyshok, Lithuania on May 31, 1937. Her family went into hiding in 1941 and managed to survive until the area's liberation in July 1944. After World War II, she traveled to Palestine with an uncle and eventually reunited with her father and brother. She immigrated to the United States in 1954 and received show more a doctorate from the City University of New York in 1973. She dedicated her life to the study and memorialization of the Holocaust and its victims. She worked as a professor of history and literature in the department of Judaic studies at Brooklyn College and founded the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Yeshivah of Flatbush in Brooklyn. She collected hundreds of photographs from the shtetl where she was born. Some 1,500 photographs were selected for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Tower of Faces, where they are arranged in a narrow chasm that visitors walk through. She also wrote several books including Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust and There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok. She died after a long illness on November 8, 2016 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Eishyshok, Lithuania
- Dedication
- IN MEMORY OF MY DEAR
PARENTS, ZIPPORAH
KATZ SONENSON, THE
GREAT LOVER OF
HUMANITY, AND MOSHE
SONENSON, THE GREAT
STORYTELLER, WHOSE
DEDICATION TO THEIR
CHILDREN, FAMILY, AND
COMMUNITY HAVE
INSPIR... (show all)ED ME ALL MY
LIFE. IN MEMORY ALSO
OF ALL THE OTHER
MEMBERS OF THE KATZ
AND SONENSON FAMILIES,
AND ALL OF THE
MARTYRS OF EISHYSHOK MURDERED
DURING THE HOLOCAUST
AND POST-LIBERATION PERIOD.
MAY THEIR MEMORY
LIVE FOREVER AND EVER.
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- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality
- DDC/MDS
- 947.93 — History & geography History of Europe Eastern European Counties and Russia Baltic States [Formerly, Caucasus Generally] Lithuania
- LCC
- DS135 .L52 .E36 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Asia History of Asia Israel (Palestine). The Jews Jews outside of Palestine
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