December 11, 1998 • Page Image 101
…10 tut Side „ lit Spoip, Sholem Aleichem and even the pho- tographs of Roman Vishniac don't present a complete view, nor do they reflect the changes that modernity and Zionism brought to the shtetl. She explains that not all shtetl Jews were poor, nor were their lives uni- form, nor were women powerless. Dr. Eliach refutes those reviewers who have characterized Once There Was A World as a yizkor book, refer- ring to memorial volumes published...…

















































