Landsmanshaft
A landsmanshaft (Yiddish: לאַנדסמאַנשאַפט, also landsmanschaft; plural: landsmans(c)haftn or landsmans(c)hafts) is a mutual aid society, benefit society, or hometown society of Jewish immigrants originating from the same European town, area or region and settling in a new geographical area. == History == The landsmanshaft organizations aided immigrants' transitions from Europe to America by providing social structure and support to those who arrived in the United States without the family networks, practical skills and economic resources that had sustained them in Europe.