YMBR many years ago someone here mentioned, There Once Was a World by Yaffa Eliach’s chronicle of her shtetl of Eishyshok. I immediately found it online and got it at a bargain price. I’ve read it 3 times. It is rife with photos that example the diversity of Eishyshok. Today I just discovered a PBS program on YouTube that is called There Once Was a Town. In the film Eliach tours her old shtetl. Like her book, this film shows photos of the diverse Jewish population of her shtetl prior to the extermination of it’s Jewish population.As you probably know already Yaff Eliach compiled the photos for the three story display in the Holocaust Museum in DC known as The Tower of Faces. It would be refreshing if other posters here availed themselves of these resources which document how different that frum world and its people were from todays. Consider this post a mere footnote to your earlier posts. Clearly in that old world, the frumma lived and associated quite differently than todays shtetls here in the US.
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