• Jews first settled in Lida in the middle of the 16th century, and permission to construct a synagogue was granted by King Stefan Batory in 1579.
  • Most of them are lost, many are in decline. For example, the synagogue in Lida survived the war but was blown up in peacetime. Some buildings are in better shape.
  • Jews first settled in Lida in the middle of the 16th century, and permission to construct a synagogue was granted by King Stefan Batory in 1579.
  • Shtetls in Lida Uyezd are: Belitsa, Eisiskes, Lida, Novy Dvor, Orlya, Ostryna, Radun, Rozhanka, Shchuchyn, Vasilishki, Voranava, Zheludok.
  • Jews first settled in Lida in the middle of the 16th century, and permission to construct a synagogue was granted by King Stefan Batory in 1579.
  • A collage of seven photographs: a group photograph of the Resident�s Committee, the building where the Hassidim prayed, the shtiebel (small synagogue)...
  • Jews first settled in Lida in the middle of the 16th century, and permission to construct a synagogue was granted by King Stefan Batory in 1579.
  • Lida became the centre of Vilna Governorate. In 1863 and 1873, two beer factories were built in Lida. ... Lida had a particularly-sightly brick synagogue.[11][12].