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Rishon LeZion - January 2005 Groundbreaking for the "Forest Of Life" in "The Shtetl - The Living Museum of The Jewish World".
NEW YORK, NY - May 24, 2003 A Shtetl for Israel - A Living Jewish History Museum Breaks Ground in Rishon Le Zion, Israel
MIAMI
BEACH, FL-- May 15, 2003 Painting by Irene Lieblich is the
official Poster Image for a New Museum. Village scene by South Florida resident
commemorates June 1 Groundbreaking at the Living History Museum "The
Shtetl" in Rishon Le Zion, Israel
Buy Video:
"There
Once Was A Town" Narrated by Ed Asner. Survivors of the Sept 25 &
26, 1941 massacre return with their families to tour the Town Of Eishyshok.
For a complete history of the Town of Eishyshok see
the book: "There
Once Was A World: A 900 Year Chronicle Of The Town Of Eishyshok"
The Shtetl Museum in the News
Ynetnews Feb 7, 2006
- Israel. Article by: Schelly Dardashti: Bridge
to the past
From Moscow. 500 copies of our Russian version of Dr. Yaffa Eliachs popular book, "Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust", were acquired by the main pro-presidential youth movement in Russia in order to be offered to all 500 members ot the Russian Parliament, the Duma, on the eve of the International Holocaust Remebrance Day at 27th January. Posted: January 31, 2006 To buy the book (click here)
The New Jersey Jewish Standard - June 4, 2004 Yaffa Eliach - Restoring A Vanished Past
The Jewish Week, NY - June 6, 2003 A different kind of settlement activity took place Sunday outside Rishon Lezion, Israel's fourth-largest city. June 1 marked the groundbreaking for the Shtetl, the latest project by Holocaust survivor and historian Yaffa Eliach.
Forward, NY - June 6 2003 Imagine if you could cross a bridge and enter the world of our fathers. Literally.
New Jersey Jewish Standard - Shtetl in the Promised Land: Far too often memorializing the Jewish past means memorializing the Holocaust. But Holocaust survivor Yaffa Eliach is planning a project that she hopes will change that.
Hadassah Magazine - October 2002 - Shtetl Redux
Jewish Express - September 2002 - Professor Yaffa Eliach "To Choose Life"
Maariv - April 5, 2002 TEL-AVIV -She believes in Life (Hebrew)
Berliner Zeitung - April 14, 2001 BERLIN- Ein litauisches Schtetl für Israel Eine New Yorker Professorin will ihre osteuropäische Heimatstadt wieder aufbauen - ein umstrittenes Projekt
TheCanadian JewishNews-July27,2000 TORONTO - Prof. Yaffa Eliach latest project is more ambitious than anything she's done before, butunderlying it is a simple approach to teaching the lessons of theHolocaust. "I can't understand," says one of the world's foremost Holocaust scholars, "why our focus has been on death and destruction, and not life."
Jewish Week-May 26,2000 NEW YORK - The southwest corner of Rishon Lezion, Israel's fourth-largest city, is empty. "Only sand," says Mayor Nitzan. "They were going to build a golf course on it," says Yaffa Eliach. Eliach - Holocaust survivor, historian and author - seesanother future for the space: horse market and stable, castle and forest, stone-paved streets and Yiddish-speaking "residents."
Israel Today-April 2000 TEL AVIV - At the beginning of her book Dreams of Survival, author Yaffa Eliach quotes Genesis 40:23: "Yet the chief cupbearer did not remember Joseph, but forgot him". The author concludes that forgetting about the good things that Joseph had done led to forgetting about him.
Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle April 21, 2000 - MILWAUKEE During his invasion of Russia, the French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte toured the synagogues and churches of Eastern Europe. According to tradition, he was so impressed with the synagogue of Olkenik in Lithuania, he ordered that part of his saddle blanket- embroidered with gold and sliver crowns, his name and the words Gloria et Patria- be cut off and given to the community.
Jerusalem Post -February 18,2000 JERUSALEM - Yaffa Eliach, one of the world's foremost Holocaust historians, has devised a revolutionary - yet breathtakingly simple - plan to defeat Hitler: Don't teach about dead Jews; bring the Jews back to life
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