Jewish Hometown Associations and Family Circles in New York"Hannah Kliger has provided an important service to historians . . . " Journal of American Ethnic History " . . . Hannah Kliger has provided a valuable primary source for studying immigrant Jewry and has argued forcefully for the resiliency and adaptability of ethnic institutions as mechanisms for Jewish adaptation and survival." American Jewish Archives Struggling to cope in a strange land, immigrants in the early years of this century gathered with