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The Book Of American Jewish Gangster
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Author : Maxmillian Zellner
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2013-01-29
The Book Of American Jewish Gangster written by Maxmillian Zellner and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-29 with Gangsters categories.
A pictorial history of the Jewish gangster in America from 1900 on.
The Rise And Fall Of The Jewish Gangster In America
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Author : Albert Fried
language : en
Publisher: Holt McDougal
Release Date : 1980
The Rise And Fall Of The Jewish Gangster In America written by Albert Fried and has been published by Holt McDougal this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1980 with Social Science categories.
This book tracks the rise and fall of an underworld culture that bred some of America's greatest racketeers, bootleggers, gamblers, and professional killers, examining the careers of such high-profile figures as Meyer Lansky and Benjamin Bugsy Siegel.
The Book Of Jewish Gangsters
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Author : John William Tuohy
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2010-12-08
The Book Of Jewish Gangsters written by John William Tuohy and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-08 with True Crime categories.
The brief and bloody history of the rise and fall of the Jewish-American gangster in the American midwest from the year1900 through 2000 They were, largely, the sons of America's newest and poorest immigrants who had crowded into New York's then desolate, filthy and overcrowded tenement slum, the lower east side. With limited educations and often facing appalling discrimination, many filtered into the once massive and much feared Jewish street gangs that ruled large parts of Manhattan and the Boroughs. Despite a general erroneous recreation of the role of Jewish gangsters within the early American Jewish ghettos, these hoodlums were hardly heroes within the community. Rather, they were the scourge of the Jewish neighborhoods, prying on Jewish business owners and peddling young Jewish girls into the world of prostitution. In the early part of the 20th century, Jewish mobsters moved from street gang status to professional criminals though the labor racket wars. Hiring themselves out to both management and unions as leg breakers and sluggers, Jewish gangsters like Kid Dropper Kaplan,(Kid dropper got his nickname as a child. He knocked over children sent to the stores by their parents and took their money) Johnny Spanish and Dopey Benny Fein came to dominate the labor extortion business. The Jews in organized crime blossomed during prohibition when ethnic hostilities between the Sicilian-Italian Americans, the Irish and the Jews were set aside in the name of fortune. Jewish gangs virtually controlled all or most of the bootleg operations in Cleveland Ohio, Philadelphia and Brooklyn under the leadership of Dutch Schultz in New York, Moe Dalitz in Ohio, Charlie Solomon in Boston and Longy Zwillman in New Jersey and Hollywood. Jews especially played a large role in the creation and management of the National Crime Syndicate in the 1930s. Except in a few, rare cases, Jewish mob leaders had not built up criminal organizations and those there were created quickly faded and died as America's Jews filters into main stream society, their desperate poverty and hopelessness now a thing of the past. Although far less in number then they had been in the 1920s and 1930s, Jewish gangsters, such as Meyer Lansky, Moe Dalitz and Gus Greenbaum, were still a considerable force in the underworld right after World War 2 up until the very early 1970s, when old age took its natural toll. By then, the typical Jewish mobster, lacking the numbers needed for any other type in the United States had moved into management positions in the various Outfits (Again, like Lansky and Dalitz) or controlled large segments of loan sharking business. Something of Jewish Mafia exists today in the form of the Israeli mafia, which, at the start of the 21st century, is heavily involved in White Slavery and narcotics trafficking in which is works closely with the New York based Gambino crime family. Working class Russian Jew also dominates large fractions of the various Russian mobs, wrongly called The Russian Mafia (They are hardly a united group). However, how many of these hoodlums are actually Jewish is a mystery. Under the Soviet government, thousands of gangsters claimed Jewish ancestry so they would be allowed to relocate in the United States and Israel.
Gangsters Vs Nazis
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Author : Michael Benson
language : en
Publisher: Citadel Press
Release Date : 2022-04-26
Gangsters Vs Nazis written by Michael Benson and has been published by Citadel Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-26 with History categories.
Now in paperback! The stunning true story of the rise of Nazism in America in the years leading to WWII—and the fearless Jewish gangsters and crime families who joined forces to fight back. With an intense cinematic style, acclaimed nonfiction crime author Michael Benson reveals the thrilling role of Jewish mobsters like Bugsy Siegel in stomping out the terrifying tide of Nazi sympathizers during the 1930s and 1940s. As Adolph Hitler rose to power in 1930s Germany, a growing wave of fascism began to take root on American soil. Nazi activists started to gather in major American cities, and by 1933, there were more than one-hundred anti-Semitic groups operating openly in the United States. Few Americans dared to speak out or fight back—until an organized resistance of notorious Jewish mobsters (Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Red Levine, and others) waged their own personal war against the Nazis in their midst, gangland-style . . . Packed with surprising, little-known facts, graphic details, and unforgettable personalities, Gangsters vs. Nazis chronicles the mob’s most ruthless tactics in taking down fascism—inspiring ordinary Americans to join them in their fight. The book culminates in one of the most infamous events of the pre-war era—the 1939 Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden—in which law-abiding citizens stood alongside hardened criminals to fight against the Nazis for the soul of America. This is the story of the mob that’s rarely told—one of the most fascinating chapters in American history and American organized crime.
Bugsy Siegel
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Author : Michael Shnayerson
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2021
Bugsy Siegel written by Michael Shnayerson and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip "[A] brisk-reading chronicle of Siegel’s life and crimes."—Tom Nolan, Wall Street Journal "Fast-paced and absorbing. . . . With a keen eye for the amusing, and humanizing detail, [Shnayerson] enlivens the traditional rise-and-fall narrative."—Jenna Weissman Joselit, New York Times Book Review In a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel (1906–1947) rose from desperate poverty to ill‑gotten riches, from an early‑twentieth‑century family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side to a kingdom of his own making in Las Vegas. In this captivating portrait, author Michael Shnayerson sets out not to absolve Bugsy Siegel but rather to understand him in all his complexity. Through the 1920s, 1930s, and most of the 1940s, Bugsy Siegel and his longtime partner in crime Meyer Lansky engaged in innumerable acts of violence. As World War II came to an end, Siegel saw the potential for a huge, elegant casino resort in the sands of Las Vegas. Jewish gangsters built nearly all of the Vegas casinos that followed. Then, one by one, they disappeared. Siegel’s story laces through a larger, generational story of eastern European Jewish immigrants in the early‑ to mid‑twentieth century.
Jewish Gangsters Of Modern Literature
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Author : Rachel Rubin
language : en
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Release Date : 2000
Jewish Gangsters Of Modern Literature written by Rachel Rubin and has been published by University of Illinois Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Criticism categories.
In the hands of Jewish literary communists - themselves engaged in transgressing cultural boundaries - the figure of the Jewish gangster provides an occasion to craft a virile Jewish masculinity, to consider the role of vernacular in literature, to interrogate the place of art within a political economy, and to explore the fate of Jewishness in the "new worlds" of the United States and the Soviet Union."--BOOK JACKET.
Tough Jews
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Author : Rich Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2013-06-18
Tough Jews written by Rich Cohen and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Award-winning writer Rich Cohen excavates the real stories behind the legend of infamous criminal enforcers Murder, Inc. and contemplates the question: Where did the tough Jews go? In 1930s Brooklyn, there lived a breed of men who now exist only in legend and in the memories of a few old-timers: Jewish gangsters, fearless thugs with nicknames like Kid Twist Reles and Pittsburgh Phil Strauss. Growing up in Brownsville, they made their way from street fights to underworld power, becoming the execution squad for a national crime syndicate. Murder Inc. did for organized crime what Henry Ford did for the automobile, and Tough Jews is the first in-depth portrait of these men, a thrilling glimpse at the muscle that made possible the success of gangster statesmen such as Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, and Lucky Luciano. For Rich Cohen, who grew up in suburban Illinois in the 1980s taunted by the stereotype of Jews as book-reading rule followers, the very idea of the Jewish gangster was a relief; for once, a Jew in jail did not have to be a white collar criminal. With a clear eye and a comic sensibility, Cohen looks beyond the blood and ultimately encounters each of these ruthless killers’ matzo-ball heart. Tough Jews shows what can happen when a member of the tribe combines brains, heart, and a dangerous determination never to back down.
The Kosher Capones
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Author : Joe Kraus
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-15
The Kosher Capones written by Joe Kraus and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-15 with History categories.
The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago's Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin "Zuckie the Bookie" Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate's "Jewish wing." These two men linked the early Jewish gangsters of the neighborhoods of Maxwell Street and Lawndale to the notorious Chicago Outfit that emerged from Al Capone's criminal confederation. Focusing on the murder of Zuckerman by Patrick, Kraus introduces us to the different models of organized crime they represented, a raft of largely forgotten Jewish gangsters, and the changing nature of Chicago's political corruption. Hard-to-believe anecdotes of corrupt politicians, seasoned killers, and in-over-their-heads criminal operators spotlight the magnitude and importance of Jewish gangsters to the story of Windy City mob rule. With an eye for the dramatic, The Kosher Capones takes us deep inside a hidden society and offers glimpses of the men who ran the Jewish criminal community in Chicago for more than sixty years.
But He Was Good To His Mother
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Author : Robert A. Rockaway
language : en
Publisher: Gefen Books
Release Date : 1993
But He Was Good To His Mother written by Robert A. Rockaway and has been published by Gefen Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Crime categories.
In ch. 8 (p. 218-247), "Defenders of Their People, " relates how many Jewish gangsters in the 1920s-40s (e.g. Meyer Lansky, Samuel "Nails" Morton, Jack Zelig, Abner "Longy" Zwillman, Max "Puddy" Hinkes, Davie Berman) defended Jewish immigrants and Jewish neighborhoods in big cities from the assaults of antisemitic gangs and individuals. In the 1930s they disrupted pro-Nazi rallies, especially those of the Silver Shirts Legion and of the German-American Bund. Many ordinary Jews appreciated the gangsters' protection; communal leaders, however reluctantly, sometimes accepted and even solicited their aid.
The Kosher Capones
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Author : Joe Kraus
language : en
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Release Date : 2019-10-15
The Kosher Capones written by Joe Kraus and has been published by Northern Illinois University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-15 with History categories.
The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago's Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin "Zuckie the Bookie" Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate's "Jewish wing." These two men linked the early Jewish gangsters of the neighborhoods of Maxwell Street and Lawndale to the notorious Chicago Outfit that emerged from Al Capone's criminal confederation. Focusing on the murder of Zuckerman by Patrick, Kraus introduces us to the different models of organized crime they represented, a raft of largely forgotten Jewish gangsters, and the changing nature of Chicago's political corruption. Hard-to-believe anecdotes of corrupt politicians, seasoned killers, and in-over-their-heads criminal operators spotlight the magnitude and importance of Jewish gangsters to the story of Windy City mob rule. With an eye for the dramatic, The Kosher Capones takes us deep inside a hidden society and offers glimpses of the men who ran the Jewish criminal community in Chicago for more than sixty years.