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

by Yaffa Eliach

Release Date: 06 October, 1999

Edition: Paperback

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a lost world that lives in the soul of all jews...

In her very detailed and extensive account of life in a jewish market town of Eastern Europe, the author gives a vivid glimpse of the daily life, emotions and longings of its members. A real interesting book that transports us to the middle of a vibrant community that lived, cried, and smiled during all their history until the bitter end.

A must read for anyone intereste in the jewish culture and it's ethos.

Timely & Relevant

This book is especially significant and timely in light of the recent apology by Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski for the wartime massacre of Jewish villagers by their Polish neighbors 60 years ago. Read this book for a wonderfully detailed account of a town and a way of life that has been lost forever. It's disheartening to see how many of the Polish reviewers of this book are victims of the decades of propaganda that has taught them to believe that Poles were not collaborators in Nazi atrocities.