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Historical Texts & Sources
- Narewka
entry in Slownik Geograficzny, the
Geographical Dictionary of the Kingdom of Poland and
other Slavic Countries, (Słownik Geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego
i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich, 1880-1902); (Links to articles on localities in Prużany
District translated into English on website of CPSA
- Children Of Prużany and the
Surrounding Area.) Polish text from
Narewka
in Słownik Geograficzny
Królestwa Polskiego i Innych Krajów Słowiańskich,
Tom VI, p. 911.
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Narewka, a small town on the river of the same name, in the prużanski district, Polish precinct no. 5, about 60km from Prużany, and about 140 from Grodno, 863 inhabitants (448 males and 418 females), including 778 Jews (?); an Orthodox church, a synagogue, post office, and a boat landing. It is governed under a Polish precinct, overseeing three townships: Zastawa, Masiewska, and Suchopolska. The town has a Russian Orthodox parish, with deanery in Szereszow, 2,344 parishioners (1,115 men and 1,229 women). In addition to the parish church, there is also an affiliate church and a chapel on the cemetery grounds. At one time there was also an affiliate of the Catholic parish of Jalowka. |
Secondary Sources:
- History of Narewka (Transcription of English text on public sign in Narewka main square, 2010)
- Narewka Mala, in Encyclopaedia of Jewish Communities, Poland, translation of Pinkas Hakehillot Polin, Vol. VIII (2005), pp. 459-460. (Courtesy of Yad Vashem and the JewishGen Yizkor Book Project; Narewka Mala: Joy Kestenbaum, project coordinator; David Ziants, translator)
| Jewish Population |
Total Population |
Year |
|
779 |
863 |
1885 |
| 1,004 |
1,293 |
1897 |
|
758 |
1,205 |
1921 |
Links to Important
Historic & Genealogical Sources:
- 1912 Voter's List (Prużany District) - Listed by Surname and Shtetl (includes Narevka) This is from CPSA (Children of Pruzany and the Surrounding Area web site.) (Also on Pruzhany Research Project Web Site, scroll down for Narevka) - for General Information on the Grodno Gubernia Voters Lists, see The Grodno Gubernia 1912 Voters List Database (on JewishGen)
- 1929 Polish Business Directory: Narewka Mała: (The 1929 Polish Business Directory Project), JRI-Poland in cooperation with JewishGen
- Handlowczy i usługodawcy międzywojennej Narewki (Tradesmen and service providers in interwar Narewka) from Encyklopedia Puszczy Białowieskiej (Oprac. Piotr Bajko)
- Pruzhany
Research Project Web Site - Several
years ago I had subscribed to the predecessor site,
was given permission by Jose Serlin, who had
maintained it, to post the links and/or information
for Narewka on these KehilaLinks pages, but then, a
while later, was told not to do so. Jose Serlin
passed away in 2015. In 2016 the site was
reposted and made publicly available by Ian Watson.
Narewka was located in the Pruzhany District. Several
links on the Pruzhany site provide information on the
Jewish residents of Narewka, particularly, Inventory Description Property
Inhabitants of Narevka 1910-1914 (Fond 309-1-140)
and 1913 Alphabetic Llst of Owners of
Trade-Industry Enterprises - Narewvka (309-1-71).
This information from these two links comes from the National
Historical Archives of Belarus in Grodno. There
is also a partial list of Arrivals in New York from Narewka
from the Ellis Island Data Base.
Selected Bibliography:
- Dobra i miasteczko Narewka na tle dziejow regionu (do konica XIX wieku), by Dorota Michaluk, Bialystok-Narewka, 1997.
- The Encyclopedia of
Jewish Life Before and During the Holocaust,
Shmuel Spector, editor in chief; Geoffrey Wigoder,
consulting editor; New York: New York University Press,
2001; Vol. 2, pp. 874-875.
- Jewish Bialystok and Surroundings In Eastern Poland; a Guide for Yesterday and Today, by Tomasz Wisniewski, Ipswich, Mass.: Ipswich Press, 1998.
- "Leon Leyson," in Schindler's Legacy, True Stories of the List Survivors," by Elinor J. Brecher and Thomas Keneally, New York: Dutton, 1994.
- Mémoire
Descriptif sur la Forêt Impériale de Bialowieza,
en Lithuanie, by Julian Brinken, Varsovie:
1828.
- "Narewka Mala," in Pinkas Hakehillot, Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities: Poland, Yad Vashem: Jerusalem: 2005; Vol. 8, pp. 459-460.
- Synagogues and Jewish Communities in the Bialystok Region; Jewish Life in Eastern Europe before 1939, by Tomasz Wisniewski, Bialystok, 1992.