There once was a world - Yaffa Eliach
a 900-year cgronicle of the Shtetl of Eishishok
KORTE INHOUD
Two million visitors a year enter the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum where 1600photographs from the stetl Eishyshok constitute what many consider to be the most moving exhibit in the museum - The Tower of Life. In this soaring, three story space we see the people of Heisyshok at hteir weddings and bahr mitzvahs, their social clubs and literary gatherings, their winter sports and summer camps.
Now Professor Yaffa Eliach, who's haunting collection of photographs gave faces to a murdered people, has written the history of that people.
Eliach's nine-century saga of Eastern European Jewish life is richer and fuller than any ever written. Her research took her from family attics on six continents to state archives no scholar had seen since the start of the Cold War. Confronted with the near total disappearance of the world of the stetl Eliach was indefatigable in her search for the truth - of a people, a place, a culture.
Some of what she found was as familiar as the chicken soup on a Jewish table, or an imag...
Now Professor Yaffa Eliach, who's haunting collection of photographs gave faces to a murdered people, has written the history of that people.
Eliach's nine-century saga of Eastern European Jewish life is richer and fuller than any ever written. Her research took her from family attics on six continents to state archives no scholar had seen since the start of the Cold War. Confronted with the near total disappearance of the world of the stetl Eliach was indefatigable in her search for the truth - of a people, a place, a culture.
Some of what she found was as familiar as the chicken soup on a Jewish table, or an imag...
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