Most of the Eastern European Jewish immigrants who lived at the end of 19th and beginning of 20th century on the LES settled in communities of people who came from the same village, town, region or country. Many of the 500 shuls of the LES were built around landsleit, which were groups of people from the same land, who created mutual-aid societies to help and support each other during this hard transition of immigrating from their countries to America. These groups registered as official landsmanshaftns. We’ll visit the beautiful old Bialystocker synagogue and we’ll see the building that was the famous Bialystoker Home for the Aged, both once part of Bialystoker landsmanshaftn. We’ll walk past the shtiebel row of E Broadway with a few surviving little one room synagogues and landsmanshaftns, stroll once overcrowded streets of the historic LES that were filled with pushcarts, food stores, cafes, garment shops, newspaper publishing houses, theaters and libraries.