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The Shtetl Household

Editor’s 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.


Author Bio:
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  "Three things increase a man's self-esteem: a beautiful dwelling,
    a beautiful wife, and beautiful furnishings."

    Brakhot 57/B

THE SHTETL HOUSEHOLD
by Yaffa Eliach

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