The book was published in  as year chronicle of the shtetl of Eishyshok But she used interviews and oral history and included detail about customs and religion although she is not an anthropologist She is a professor of Judaic studies at Brooklyn College  Her Phd is in Russian intellectual history  Also her ancestors lived in Eishyshok   I agree that this is not the place to push political views  I have also noticed that this topic might spill over with information belonging to other articles It is a challenge