num_pages: 864
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.
language: English
title: There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok
titlecomplete: There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok
genres: History, Judaism, World War II, Poland, Jewish, Holocaust, Judaica, War, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 93
awards: awardedAt: 883641600000
name: National Book Award Finalist
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Back Bay Books