It was entirely natural that recently arrived immigrants would congregate in ethnic groups for mutual support and comfort. This photograph shows the entrance to one such subcommunity, New Jerusalem, which sheltered many of the Jewish immigrants. These self-contained communities had a sense of physical insularity. Note the kosher meat market, necessary to the life of the Jewish community. Within the immediate vicinity Jewish immigrants would quickly establish a synagogue, a mutual benefit society and, as close as possible, a cemetery. Culturally, therefore, ethnic neighbourhoods replaced the Eastern European villages which the immigrants had left.
