There once was a world : a nine-hundred year chronicle of the shtetl of Eishyshok

by Yaffa Eliach

Hardcover, 1998

Status

Available

Call number

R 947.93 ELI

Collection

Publication

Little Brown & Co (T) (1998), Edition: 1st, 818 pages

Description

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.

Awards

National Book Award (Finalist — Nonfiction — 1998)
National Jewish Book Award (Finalist — Non-Fiction — 1998)

Language

Original language

English

Physical description

818 p.; 8 x 2.25 inches

ISBN

0316232521 / 9780316232524

Local notes

One copy held in general collection

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