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Other Names
- AMSTIVEVA, AMSTIBOVE, OMSTIBOVA (Yiddish)
- MSTIBUW, MSTIBOVO (Polish according to Slownik
Geograficzny), MSZIBOWO
- According to a website in Belarus,
it is in Grodna regition, Vaŭkavysk district. Varous
spellings are: Мстибово, Mscib w, Mstibovo,
Mstibov, Amstibove, Amstiveva, Mscibow,
Mstibuv, Mstibuw, Mszibowo, Omstibova,
Mscibava
Where is MSCIBOW ? Latitude 53 07 , Longitude
24 15 , Altitude 511 feet (155 meters)
Maps
Background Information
In every generation each person
must regard himself as if he himself had come out
of Egypt, as it is said: "And thou shalt relate it
to thy son on that day, saying, this is done on
account of that which the Lord did unto me, when I
came forth out of Egypt."(Exodus 13:8, Passover
Hagadah)
Documents, Stories & Photographs
"Not to know what happened
before we were born is to remain perpetually a
child. For what is the worth of a human life
unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors
by the records of history?" --- Marcus Tullius
Cicero, 106-43 B.C.
Stories about Mscibow (published)
- Memories
of My Father's House written by Aaron Kalir,
published in People of the Second Aliyah,
edited by Yaacov Sharat & Nachman Tamir, 1970
(originally in hebrew, translated to english)
- Summary of some chapters from Genesis of Moises
Ville written by Noah
Katzovits, 1947 (originally in yiddish ,
translated into spanish in 1987)
- Olamot (Worlds), by
Eliezer Kaller, "Achdut" Co-operative Publishing
Press, Inc., Tel-Aviv, 1948 (hebrew)
In the Town, pp 7-11.
The Elderly Rabbi, pp 12-15.
- Avotahem Shel Hanazim
(The Forefathers of the Nazis), by Eliezer Kaller,
Palestine, 1944 (hebrew)
Stories about what happened in Amstiveva (Mscibow)
during World War I and the invasion of the
Germans. The last chapter is about the author's
last visit to Amstiveva in 1934 before he
immigrated to Palestine.
- Bshow Galim (In the
Cresting of Waves), by Eliezer Kaller, "Achdut"
Co-operative Publishing Press, Inc., Tel-Aviv,
1958 (hebrew)
A collection of stories about Amstiveva,
Volkovysk, Palestine, Israel.
- Halilayah Eino Afel
(The Night is not Dark) by Yehudit Golan, Feldheim
Publishers, Jerusalem, 1998 (hebrew)
Some of the stories are about her grandfather's
youth in Amstiveva.
Bibliography & Resources
Books (Bibliography including
names of books in hebrew)
- Berenstein, A., Furgess, Y., &
Naveh, Y. (Eds.), (1999) Yeshivat
Meir Hazriha Bepatay Kedem: Neitivay HaZalat
Hatorah (Hebrew)
Moshe Berenstein, 0ne of the yeshiva students of
Yeshivat Meir who escaped the Holocasut and spent
the years of WWII in Shanghai was from Mscibow.
His son A. Berenstein is one of the editors of
this series.
- Cociovich (Katzovits), Noah,
(1947) Genesis of Moises Ville,
1947 (yiddish, spanish translation 1987)
- Golan Yehudit, (1998) Halilayah
Eino Afel (The Night is not Dark),
Feldheim Publishers, Israel (hebrew)
- Kaller, Eleizer, (1944) Avotahem
Shel Hanazim (The Forefathers of the
Nazis), Palestine, (hebrew)
- Kaller, Eleizer, (1948) Olamot
(Worlds), "Achdut" Co-operative
Publishing Press, Inc., Tel-Aviv, (hebrew)
- Kaller, Eleizer, (1958) Bshow
Galim (In the Cresting of Waves),
"Achdut" Co-operative Publishing Press, Inc.,
Israel, (hebrew)
- Mishinski, Moshe (1986) Svisloch,
One name with multiple forms: Two Shtetls
(Microhistory in the mirror of toponymy) Gal-Ed:
On the history of the Jews in Poland.
Volume 9 The Institute for the Research of the
Diaspora, Israel (hebrew)
- The Encyclopedia of Jewish
Life Before and During the Holocaust,
Volulme 3
- Sharat Yaacov & Tamir Nachman
(Eds), People of the Second Aliyah,
Mifalei Culture & Education, Inc. Volume 1,
1970 (Hebrew)
Archives
- Archives
of Belarus
- Belarus
Records in Various Archives
- Grodno Archives
Partial Inventory from Grodno Archives being
investigated by Grodno Genealogy Group, Inc.
- The Central Archives for the
History of the Jewish People
Sprinzak Building, Hebrew University, Givat Ram
Campus, Jerusalem, Israel
They have a collection of microfilms &
microfische in Russian. They do not accept
requests by mail. The material can be viewed at
their location and copies of relevant material
can be made. Their collection does not include
genealogical materials but good back
information. You need to bring along someone who
reads polish handwriting.
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