General Interest

• Belarus, Then & Now, ISBN 0-8225-2811-8 (libr. bdg.) Minn: Lerner Publications, 1993. This children's book, with great photos, is a quick overview of Belarus today. It is probably in most libraries in the children's section.
• Zaprudnik, Jan. Historical Dictionary of Belarus. Lanham, MD & London: The Scarecrow Press, Inc, 1998, ISBN # 0-8108-3449-9

Jewish Interest

• Abramowicz, Hirsh, Abramowicz, Dina, and Shandler, Jeffrey [eds.]. Profiles of a Lost World: Memoirs of East European Jewish Life before WWII. NY:  Lucius N. Littauer Foundation for YIVO.  ISBN 0-81430278402.  Excellent reference for a general understanding of what life was like.
• Aviel, Avraham, translated by Atalya Broide. A Village Named Dogalishok: The Massacre At Radun And Eishishok (Library of Holocaust Testimonies) 2006. 
• Cholawski, Shalom. The Jews of Bielorussia during World War II. Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Pub. 1998. This is a translation of an earlier work.
• Damasek, Eliyahu.  Otiyot be-æoferet; In leaden letters : be-Milhemet ha-æolam ha-sheniyah, lifne ha-milhamah ve-aharehah. [Tel Aviv] Bet lohame ha-getaÆot ;;ha-Kibuts   ha-meÆuhad, 743 [1982 or 1983], c1983.
• Davies, Norman, & Polonsky, Antony. Jews in Eastern Poland and the USSR, 1939-1946. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991.
• Dubnow, History of the Jews in Russia and Poland. Phil.: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1916-1920, vols. I-III.  Refer to passages indexed under inns (and taverns), propination, and arendar.
• Duffy, Peter The Bielski Brothers. NY: Harper Collins 2003.
• Eliach, Yaffa. There Once was a World: a 900-year chronicle of the shtetl of Eishyshok. NY: Little Brown & Company, 1998. ISBN 0-316-23252-1
• Gabel, Dina.  Behind the Ice Curtain. Lakewood NJ: C.I.S. Publishers, 1992.  The author was from Lida, and had family in Grodno.  The family was relocated to Siberia during the Holocaust.
• Kagan, Jack and Cohen, Dov. Surviving the Holocaust with the Russian Jewish Partisans. London: Valentine Mitchell, 1998. ISBN: 085303335-8
• Levin, Dov, translated by N. Greenwood. The Lesser of Two Evils. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1994.[Do a search -box on the upper right of page].  The Jews of Eastern Europe had to decide which was the lesser of two evils after the Soviet-Nazi Pact of 1939.  This book describes the time.  [Complements Gabel's personal view, Behind the Ice Curtain].
• Levine Allan Fugitives of the Forest. 1998. Published only in Canada, book on the Jewish partisans been hard to get. As of early 2008, you can download the entire book as a pdf file. Thanks to Dr. Leonid Smilovitsky for the link
• Manski, Samuil.  With God's Help.  Madison WI, privately published, 1990.  The memoirs of a survivor from Lida who emigrated to the US.
• Opalski, Magdalena.  The Jewish Tavern-Keeper and His Tavern in Nineteenth-Century Polish Literature, published by The Zalman Shazar Center for the Furtherance of the Study of Jewish History, Jerusalem, 1986.
• Pinchuk, Ben-Cion. Shtetl Jews under Soviet Rule: eastern Poland on the eve of the Holocaust. Oxford, UK: B. Blackwell, 1991.
• Pogonowski. Iwo Cyprian. Jews in Poland: A Documentary History. NY: Hipprocrene Books, 1998. 171 Madison Avenue, NY 10016
• Radin, Ruth Yaffe.  Escape to the Forest.  illustrated by Janet Hamlin.  New York: HarperCollinsPublishers, c2000.  A book for young people, based on the true story of a survivor from Lida.
• Rubinovits-Shif, Sara.  Naæarah ba-milhamah; Girl in wartime. Tel-Aviv: MuzeÆon ha-lohamim veha-partizanim, 751 [1990]
• Salomon, Yosef.  The Yeshiva of Lida:  A Unique Institution of Higher Learning.  YIVO Annual, 15, (1974), pp. 106-25.
  
• Solomian-Loc, Fanny. Woman Facing the Gallows. Amherst, MA: Wordpro 1981. This book recounts the experiences of a partisan in the Pripet marshes, which are not strictly Lida, but nearby. Few of the partisan memoirs are available in English, particularly for female partisans.
• Spector, Shmuel.  Lost Jewish Worlds: the communities of Grodno, Lida, Olkieniki, Vishay.   Jerusalem: Yad Vashem, 1996.
• Sutin, Jack and Rochelle, edited by Laurence Sutin.  Jack and Rochelle, A Holocaust Story of Love and Resistance.  St. Paul MN: Graywolf Press, 1995.  The Sutins weren't from the Lida area, but they spent the war in Simcha Zorin's partisan group in the Nalibocki Forest near Lida.  Also, this book is available [2003] from online book sources.
  
• Tec, Nechama Defiance: the Bielski Partisans Oxford UK: Oxford U. Press, 1993. This book is about the Bielski brothers and the partisan group they led in the forests around Lida.
• Tec, Nehama, Women among the Forest Partisans, in OFER, Dalia, ed, and Lenore J. WEITZMAN, ed., Women in the Holocaust, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998), Part III Resistance and Rescue, chap. 12, pp. 223-233.

Libraries which hold works like these:

• Klau Libraries, Hebrew Union College
• The union catalog of the California state university system
• The New York Public Library, New York
• Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles CA
• YIVO, New York City
• Am I missing your favorite?  Please let me know!

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