Bibliography
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| Encyclopaedia Judaica. Jerusalem: Macmillan, 1972. See articles on: Borisław; Drogobych, Maurycy Gottlieb, Ephraim Lilien, Poland, Galicia and Bruno Schulz. |
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| Sights and Images from our Towns, Associationof Emigrants from Drohobych, Boryslaz and Environs. | |
| Applebaum, Anne. | Between East and West; across the borderlands of Europe. New York: Pantheon Books, 1994. |
| Held, Leopold. | The Tyśmienica Still Flows. Published and privately printed in Poland after 1978. This is a vivid and moving memoir of Borysław. Some chapters of this book appear at http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Borislav/Borislav.html. The entire book will be published on this site when the translations are completed by volunteers. |
| J. Hirschaut. | Di yidishe naftmagnatn, Coleccion El judaism polaco, Volume 101, Editor: Mark Turkow, Central Organization of Polish Jews in Argentina, Buenos Aires, 1954 A fictional history about the development of the petroleum industry and some of its main protagonists in the Drohobycz andBorysław area. |
| Lauterbach, Leo. | Chronicle of the Lauterbach Family, The Lauterbach Family Fund, Jerusalem, 1961. A history of the descendants of Jacob Bezalel Lauterbach of Drohobycz. |
| Msciwujewski, Mscislaw. | Z Dziejów Drohobycza. Drohobycz: Al. Lachowicza, 1939. |
| Patstych, Roman. | Vileshiame starogo Drogobicha. Lviv: Kameniar, 1991. Available from Yivo Institute, NYC. In Ukrainian. |
| Wikler, Jakub. | “Old Historical Events of the Jews in Drohobycz from 1648 until the Downfall of the Polish Commonwealth,” [“Z Dziejow Zydow w Drohobyczu od R. 1648 do Upadku Rzeczypospolitej”]; in Bulletin of the Jewish Historical Institute [Biuletyn Zydowskiego Instytutu Historycznego], nos. 71-72 Warsaw, 1969, pp. 39-63. A detailed account of the economic and political history of Drohobycz Jews, 1648-1752. |
| Sefer Zikkaron li Drohobycz, Boryslaw ve-ha-Sevivah (Memorial Book of Drohobycz, Boryslaw and Surroundings). Ed. Dr. N.M. Gelber , Tel Aviv: Association of Former Residents of Drohobycz, Boryslaw and Surroundings, 1959. This yizkor book written and published by Holocaust survivors contains academic and eyewitness historical accounts, mostly in Hebrew but with a few chapters in Yiddish. It is one of the richest sources for the history of the Jews of Drohobycz and Boryslaw. Some chapters of this book have been translated and have been posted with the permission of copyright holders at: http://www.jewishgen.org/Yizkor/Drohobycz/Drogobych.html. The entire book will be published on this site when the translations have been completed by volunteers. |
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| Erdheim, Claudia. | Längst Nicht Mehr Kosher, Die geschichte einer familie. Czernin Verlag, Wien, 2005. A novel based on the story of the Erdheim family of Borysław and Drohobycz. |
| Grynberg, Henryk. | Drohobycz, Drohobycz and Other Stories: True Tales from the Holocaust and Life After. translated by Alicia Nitecki and edited by Theodosia Robertson, Penguin Books, 2002. |
| Lee, George Oscar | Goat for Azazel. Philadelphia, PA : Xlibris, 1999. |
| Lee, George Oscar | Russian Saga, Philadelphia, PA : Xlibris, 2000. |
| Lee, George Oscar | Those Were the Days, Tovarish. Philadelphia, PA : Xlibris, 2003. |
| Lee, George Oscar | Postcard from Truskawiec - Spa. Philadelphia, PA : Xlibris, 2006. |
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| Avigdor, Isaac C. | From Prison to Pulpit: sermons for all holidays of the year and stories from the Holocaust. New York: Shengold Books, 1975. |
| Brecher, Elinor J. | Schindler’s Legacy: true stories of the list survivors. New York: Plume (Penguin), 1994. See the chapter on Igor Kling, a native of Borysław who survived the Holocaust under Schindler and whose sister survived under Berthold Beitz. |
| Halter, Marek. | Stories of Deliverance: speaking with men and women who rescued Jews from the Holocaust. Chicago: Open Court, 1998. Original title La force du Bien, Paris, 1995. Trans. by Michael Bernard. Chapter 18, “Karpathian Oil,” tells of Berthold Beitz, the German officer who sheltered and saved Jews in Drohobycz and Borysław. |
| Hauser, Isak and Luise Finkler Hauser. | Deposition, 3 March 1947, Munich. In German. Yad Vashem Archives 05/67a. German original available from Yad Vashem. Eyewitness account and legal charges of brutality and murder in Drohobycz and Borysław during Holocaust. |
| Horowitz, Carl and Irene. | Of Human Agony. Shengold Publishers, New York, 1992. Irene Horowitz came from Borysław. Her story gives details of the Nazi occupation and crimes. |
| Langberg, Edwin. | Sara’s Blessing. Emethas Publishers, 2003. A gripping account of a young man from Drohobycz who manages to survive by working for German comapnies in Ukraine and for the partisans in Russia. |
| Mayer, Bernard. | Entombed. My True Story: How Forty-five Jews Lived Underground and Survived the Holocaust. Ojus, Florida: Aleric Press, 1994. Available from Aleric Press, P.O. Box 804, Ojus, Florida 33163-0804, or from author, 2100 NE 207 St., No. Miami Beach, Florida 33179. |
| Rothenberg, Samuel. | List O Zagladzie Zydow W Drohobyczu. London, Poets and Painters Press, 1984. Forward and notes by Edmund Silberner. Eyewitness account of Drohobycz from the outbreak of World War II until Rothenberg went into hiding at the end of 1942. |
| Sandkühler, Thomas. | Endlõsung in Galizien. J.H.W. Dietz Nachfolger, Bonn, 1996. An exhaustive study ofthe murder of the Jews in eastern Poland and the efforts of Berthold Beitz to save them. |
| Schmalhausen, Bernard. | Berthold Beitz im Dritten Reich. Mensch in Unmenschlicher Zeit. Essen: Verlag Peter Pomp, 1991. Available at Holocaust Museum, Washington. The book describes the lives of Jews in Drohobycz and Borysław during World War II with an account of the Berthold Beitz who saved many Jews assigned to him as workers under the Nazis. Many photographic illustrations of the period. |
| Thorne, Leon. | Out of the Ashes: The Story of a Survior. Rosebern, Inc. New York, 1961 The book has eyewitness accounts of life under the Nazis in eastern Galicia from 1941 to 1944 with several chapters on Drohobycz and clandestine photographs of Holocaust executions and deportation in Drohobycz. Available from Research Dept., Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC. |
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| Treasures of Jewish Galicia: Judaica from the Museum of Ethnography and Crafts in Lvov, Ukraine. Sarah Harel Hoshen, Ed. Tel Aviv: Beth Hatefutsoth, The Nahum Goldmann Museum of the Jewish Diaspora, 1996. An illustrated catalogue of an exhibition of Judaica from the Museum of Ethnography and crafts in Lvov, Ukraine. The work includes general history of Jews in Galicia, Jewish ritual objects and art, and synagogues in Eastern Galicia, though not specifically Drohobycz. |
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| Frank, Alison Fleig. | Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2005 |
| Himka, John-Paul. | Galicia and Bukowina: A Research Handbook, Historic Sites Service, Occasional Paper.. No. 20, March 1990, Alberta Culture and Multiculturalism, Historical Resources Division, Alberta. Also available on line at: http://www.ourroots.ca/e/toc.aspx?id=1563. |
| Hundert, Gershon David. | The Jews in Poland and Russia: bibliographical Essays. Bloomington: Indiana: University of Indiana Press, 1984. |
| Litman, Jacob. | The Economic Role of Jews in Medieval Poland: the contribution of Yitzhak Schipper. Lanham: University Press of America, 1984. An explanation of the views of the Galician Jewish historian Schipper concerning Jewish origins in Poland and the Jewish economic role during medieval period. |
| Magocsi, Paul Robert. | Galicia: A Historical Summary and Bibliographic Guide. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1983. A scholarly bibliography of the history of Galicia that focuses manly on Ukrainian history but with an excellent chapter on Jewish history. |
| Magocsi, Paul Robert. | Historical Atlas of East Central Europe. Toronto: University Press, 2002.. Historical atlas with maps in colour and well-written explanations of the political and demographic history of this area from ca. 400 to 1992. |
| Mahler, Raphael. | A History of Modern Jewry. New York: Schocken Books, 1971. (Also published as A History of Modern Jewry, 1780-1815. Vallentine Mitchell, 1971.) |
| McCagg, William O, Jr. | A History of Hapsburg Jews, 1670-1918. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989. |
| Schoenfeld, Joachim. | Shtetl Memoirs. Jews in Galicia under Austria and in the Reborn Poland - 1898-1939. Hoboken, NJ: Ktav Pub. House, 1985. |
| Wynne, Susan F. | Finding your Jewish Roots in Galicia. Avotaynu, teaneck, New Jersey, c. 1998 |
| The Jewish Encyclopedia; a descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times. Ed. Isido Singer. New York: Ktav Publishing House, 1964 See the article by Gotthard Deutsch, “Galicia, Austria”, vol. V, pp. 549-553. |
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This list is based on the extensive bibiography compiled by William Fern and enlarged by Valerie Schatzker.