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

Name: There Once Was a World A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok
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ISBN: 9780316232395

ISBN-10: 0316232394

ISBN-13: 9780316232395

Edition: 1999

Authors: 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.

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Little Brown & Company
Publication date: 10/6/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 864
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English




Beginnings and Endings


Introduction: The Quest for Eishyshok: Restoring a Vanished Past



Origins and History of Eishyshok: 1065-1941



The Shulhoyf



The Synagogue and Beth Midrash



Rabbis and Rebbetzins



Other Members of the Clergy



Heder Education



The Yeshivah: Town and Gown



The Bathhouse: The Perfect Rest



Mutual Aid Societies



The Old and New Houses of Eternity



The Shtetl Economy



Agriculture



Commerce



Handicrafts



Transportation



Market Day



Family and Community



The Shtetl Household



Rites of Passage



Life on the Fringe



Holidays



Medical Care



Modern Times



Entering Modernity: The Haskalah



Zionism



Cultural Life



Emigration to America



The Bitter End: 1933-41



On the Eve of the Storm



Di Shehita (The Slaughter)



In Ghetto Radun



In Hiding



In the Forests



Liberation and Its Aftermath


Notes


Sources


Glossary


Index