The Name The Origin Key Questions
Family trees: Avraham b. Chaim Bernard b. Abraham Ephim b. Ber Joseph b. Joseph Joseph b. Yehuda-Leib Gerasim b. Joseph Other Eliasbergs Appendices Bibliography E-mail		text by Paul Eliasberg Paberze The town of birth of the founder of the Dutch Eliasberg-family, Joseph Eliasberg, still remains uncertain: according to the register of Haarlem (his first place of residence in The Netherlands) he was born in Padbrzese, Russia. According to the register of The Hague (where he died in the 'Jewish Home for Old Men') however, he was born in Pdabreze, Poland. After consulting the Jewishgen shtetl-seeker with the soundex-system, Pdabreze seems very unlikely. John Simons mentioned that the beginning 'Pad-' would be very unlikely as well, 'Pod-' however could be very well possible, meaning 'Under' or 'Beneath'. This results in two new names: Podbrzese and Podbreze. Another search with the shtetl-seeker came up with, amongst others, the following results: Searching for Town PODBEREZIE Town Coordinates Name Type Country Distance/Direction from reference point PODBEREZ'YE 5032 2439 N Ukraine 257.8 miles W of Kiev PODBEREZ'YE 5347 3005 N Belarus 102.8 miles E of Minsk PODBEREZ'YE 5428 2817 N Belarus 48.7 miles NE of Minsk PODBEREZ'YE (PABERZE) 5456 2514 V Lithuania 17.6 miles N of Vilnius The last record of the table fits very well in the (proven) regions of origin of the other branches of the family. Maybe too well. There is no evidence, but for our convenience we make it our working assumption that this town is meant by Padbrzese (Russia) and Pdabreze (Poland). Vera Rubisova writes about the placenames: "Podberezie sounds like a reasonably Russian name, but Padbrzevo is definitely not a Russian word. Closer to Polish language, I'd say, if "valid" at all."   page-location:
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