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 ph d 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