There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok

Second printing. Sm. 4to. Pp. xiv, 818, [2], b/w illus., notes, sources, bibliography, glossary, index. Laminated pictorial boards, lettered in white to spine; dark brown endpapers. Jacket design by Michael Ian Kaye. Book design and title page illustration by Misha Beletsky. Maps drawn by Mikhail Magaril. Double-columned text format. In the original clear acetate dust wrapper, bearing the National Book Award Finalist emblem for 1998.

A visual, photographic history of Eishyshok, the vanished shtetl in Lithuania, memorialized in the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., in the form of The Tower of Life. A densely woven tapestry of history, memory, ethnography, and family autobiography, written by one of the twenty-nine survivors of the town's original five founding families.