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Full Name: Yaffa Sonenson Eliach
Biography:
(1937-2016) Historian. Yaffa Eliach was born in Eishyshok, Lithuania, and died in Manhattan, New York.
Author's Timeline:
1937 (Unknown) County
Yaffa Sonenson was born in Eishyshok, Lithuania, on May 31, 1937. 
2016 New York County
Yaffa Eliach died at her home in Manhattan, New York, on November 8, 2016. 
1969 Kings County
Professor Eliach taught history and literature in the department of Judaic studies at Brooklyn College. 
1969 Kings County
Professor Eliach founded the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Yeshivah of Flatbush in Brooklyn, New York. 
1982 (Unknown) County
Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust
(Pub: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0195031997 / 978-0195031997)
History. 
1998 (Unknown) County
There Once Was A World: A 900-Year Chronicle Of The Shtetl Of Eishyshok
(Pub: Little, Brown & Company ISBN: 0316232521 / 978-0316232524)
History. 
1973 New York County
Professor Eliach received her doctorate from the City University of New York in 1973. 
1967 Kings County
Professor Eliach received her bachelor of arts from Brooklyn College in 1967.  
1969 Kings County
Professor Eliach received her master of arts from Brooklyn College in 1969. 
1990 (Unknown) County
We Were Children Just Like You
(Pub: Center for Holocaust Studies ISBN: 0960997083 / 978-0960997084)
History. 
1977 (Unknown) County
The Last Jew: A Play in Four Acts
(Pub: Alef-Alef Theatre Publications ISBN: )
History written with Uri Assaf. 
1981 (Unknown) County
The Liberators: Eyewitness Accounts of the Liberation of Concentration Camps
(Pub: Center for Holocaust Studies ISBN: 0960997016 / 978-0960997015)
History edited with Brana Gurewitsch. 
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