Monasterzyska KehilaLinks Site

MONASTERZYSKA
Monastyriska, Ukraine

Monasterzyska is included in the Suchostaw Region Research Group (SRRG). Shtetlach were interwoven together like a tapestry and the Jewish people of neighboring shtetlach linked by marriages, trade and marketing. They shared schools, cemeteries, kosher butchers, bakers and more. Smaller shtetlach registered their birth, marriages and death in a nearby larger shtetl. One should research the neighboring area as well as an individual shtetl. The SRRG web site has resources and information that is relevant to many shtetlach. To search for family links and learn more about neighboring shtetlach, please visit the Suchostaw Region Research Group (SRRG).

Variant shtetl names: Folwarki, Momasterishche, Monasteriska, Monasteryska, Monasterzhyska, Monasterzyska, Monhastrishch, Monhastrishcht, Monastyrisce

SRRG Coordinator: Susana Leistner Bloch

Administrative District: Buczacz

Judicial / Tax District (Subdistrict): Monasterzyska

Location:

Latitude-Longitude: 49°05´ - 25°10´

Altitude: 1.079 feet

31.8 miles W of Suchostaw
37.3 miles SSW of Tarnopol
10.6 miles W of Buczacz

Jewish Population before the Holocaust: 1,715

History and Geography:
In present day Ukraine Monastyriska is in the Ternopilska Oblast (Region / Province) and in Buchatskyi Raion (County/ District).
Chapters of the Sefer Monastrishtz [Monasterzyska Yizkor Book] were submitted to the JewishGen Yizkor Project by Judith Kloogman Weinstein for SRRG
Monastyriska - Jewish Virtual Library

Maps:
Military map of Monasterzyska

Resources:
1904 Monasterzyska Tax Payers List, submitted by Judith Kloogman Weinstein
The YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe. Type in the name of your town.

Galicia Resources:

Logan J. Kleinwaks Galicia Genealogy Indexer

Gesher Galicia Resources:

All Galicia Database
Gesher Galicia Cadastral Map Room

Holocaust:

Photos, Postcards and Videos:

Postcard Photos

The People of Monasterzyska:

After emigration:
Monasterzyska Landsmanshaftn (Including a list of burial society plots in the New York metropolitan area)
Photo of the Gate / Entrance to the Monasterzyska plot at Mt. Zion Cemetery in Maspeth, Queens, New York. Queens, New York, submitted by Martin Miller

Links and Databases:

When searching the links below, please remember that many towns in Ukraine have the same name. Make sure that the information you find refers to the shtetl you are researching.

the All Poland Database. This is a multiple database search facility, which incorporates all of the databases listed below. The “All Poland Database” enables researchers to find indices to vital and related records from the independent JRI-Poland database as well as entries from other databases. The combined databases have entries for individuals living in areas now or formerly in Poland. . It includes the following databases: JewishGen Family Finder (JGFF), Yizkor Book Necrologies, JewishGen Online Worldwide Burial Registry (JOWBR), JewishGen Holocaust Database, The 1891 Galicia Business Directory, 1890-1891 New York Immigrants from Poland, Austria and Galicia and much more. The database is a work in progress, and new entries are being added regularly.
the "Miriam Weiner Routes to Roots Foundation Eastern European Archival Database" to see where some vital records are.
for on the Internet.
the JewishGen Yizkor Book Database.

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Compiled by Susana Leistner Bloch.

Webmasters: Edward Rosenbaum and Binny Lewis.

MONASTERZYSKA Monastyriska, Ukraine

MONASTERZYSKA
Monastyriska, Ukraine