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There Once Was a World
Yaffa Eliach
Author:
Yaffa Eliach
Publisher:
Little Brown and Company
ISBN:
0316232394 ···
Paperback ··· 818
pages.
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Overview:
In the soaring, three-story space that
is the Tower of Life at the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum in
Washington, D.C., sixteen hundred
photographs collected by the historian
Yaffa Eliach give face to a murdered
people. In There Once Was a World,
Eliach brilliantly and movingly
records the history of that people.
Nineteen years of scholarship, a
poet's ear, and a storyteller's voice
have yielded what is perhaps the
richest, fullest, most detailed
portrait of Eastern Jewish life that
we will ever have, a book that
encompasses both the sweep of history
and an intimate view of the day-to-day
lives of generations of small-town
Jews, in all their uniqueness and
universality. Eliach's own roots in
Eishyshok - she is a descendant of one
of the five founding families and
herself one of only twenty-nine
survivors - give her work an unrivaled
depth and passion. 818 pages.
"Eishyshok (the Yiddish name for
Ejszyszki, as it is known in Polish,
and Eisiskes in Lithuanian) had been
home not just to my family and to
several thousand other Jews just
before the Holocaust, but home to
generation upon generation of Jews,
going back to the eleventh century. In
fact, Eishyshok is the site of one of
the oldest Jewish settlements in that
part of the world." c. 1998 Yaffa
Eliach
