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Editors Note: The following is
chapter 15 excerpted from There
Once Was a World: A Nine-
Hundred-Year Chronicle of
the Shtetl of Eishyshok, by
Yaffa Eliach. (New York: Little Brown
and Company, 1998). This excerpted
chapter is reprinted here with permission
of the author, Yaffa Eliach.
It should be noted that while "The
Shtetl Household" was written with
a focus on Eishyshok, a town in
Lithuania, the household members
described here are typical of shtetls
found throughout Eastern Europe.
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"Three things increase a man's self-esteem: a beautiful dwelling,
a beautiful wife, and beautiful furnishings."
Brakhot 57/B
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THE SHTETL HOUSEHOLD
by Yaffa Eliach
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