A novel about Orthodox Jews in contemporary New York and a 900-year history of a Lithuanian shtetl made the list of finalists for the 1998 National Book Award. The winners for both the fiction competition, which includes Allegra Goodman’s “Kaaterskill Falls,” and the non-fiction contest, in which Yaffa Eliach’s “There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok” is a nominee, will be announced in mid-November.
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