if you look back in history during the franco prussian wars many people fled the german states to other countries. catherine the great offered land to the germans in order to have russia culitvated and in farming for revenues. check her edicts on the land for emigration. america was doing the same thing as well as australia offering land for settlers/farmers and for soldiers durning the civil war in america for the promise of land. if you look in the middle east there is a town called kabis. so who nows where we kabisch's origionally came from. also according to some german friends the name kabisch comes from the son of jacob. which is a bibical conotation. may be it is that the name has be transformed so many ways there are none who know the origional name and meaning. it is sad man's greed for power has destroyed so much that could have lead us to finding our origins and a sense of past.