Also quoted in Di Geshikhte, p. 188. The distance from Shubatz to Jakobstadt is approximately 55 km. Subat was divided into two sections — Old and New — separated by a river. In the book Yizkor Bukh fun Rakishak un Umgegnt, p. 327, in an article on Subat, it is written that this town was known as “der Kurlander Subat,” since there was another town called Subatch (Subotch) in Lithuania, district of Ponevezh (see also Yahadut Lita, vol. 3, p. 328; and Yidishe Shtet, Shtetlekh un Dorfishe Yishuvim in Lite, pp. 319–320, combined both towns together). And there, that the town was divided in two with a river separating them, and functioned as two separate towns — different rabbis, ritual slaughterers, teachers, and houses of study. The eastern part bordering Lithuania was the more important part, since the commercial centers were there. In Toldot Yeshivat HaYehudim BeCourland, p. 132, the Courland Subat is called “Subitz New,” and accordingly “Shubatz Old” may be the Lithuanian one.