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

Author: Yaffa Eliach

For 900 years, the Polish shtetl, Yiddish for “small town”, was a home to generations of Jewish families. But by 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.

The shtetl of Eishyshok is memorialized inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s main exhibition. 

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864 Pages