01458cam a2200217 i 4500 510285594 TxAuBib 20140619120000.0 000000|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780316232524 0316232521 TxAuBib rda Eliach, Yaffa. There Once Was A World : A 900-Year Chronicle Of The Shtetl Of Eishyshok: Nine Century Chronicle Of The Shtetl Of Eishyshok ADULT ONLY / by Eliach, Yaffa. Little, Brown & Company, 1999-03-04. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Eishyshok, in Lithuania, was for nine centuries a center of Jewish life in Eastern Europe, where Jews lived "under all the various governments that had fought for control of it: Lithuanian, Polish, German, Russian, and Soviet." But as a result of the Holocaust, writes Eishyshok native Yaffa Eliach in this rich, vastly detailed history, "nearly a millennium of vibrant Jewish life had been reduced to stark images of victimization and death." Eliach offers his chronicle by way of a memorial to those lost citizens and their disappeared history, working through archives, family photo albums, and the memories of survivors. It is a fine and fitting memorial indeed, one that ranks alongside the important work of Raul Hilberg and Lucy Dawidowicz. <I>--Gregory McNamee</I>. 20140619.