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Jewish mobsters

Alan Geik's family's close ties to Jewish gangsters are chronicled in a just-published memoir, 'Uncle Charlie Killed Dutch Schultz.' (Sonador Publishing via JTA)
January 10, 2023, 5:09 pm
Kosher nostra: New memoir details a New York Jewish family’s crime ties
In ‘Uncle Charlie Killed Dutch Schultz,’ author Alan Geik tells about ‘heimishe’ first-generation US Jews bootlegging, running gambling rackets and committing the occasional murder
By Jon Kalish
Myron Sugerman reminisces in his Newark, New Jersey, home in this still from 'Last Man Standing.' (Courtesy)
January 6, 2023, 11:20 pm
Unrepentant old school NJ Jewish mobster sings like a canary in Amazon documentary
At 84, second-generation gangster Myron Sugerman was king of illegal slots and helped fund Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal. Now he tells all in the 2022 film ‘Last Man Standing’
By Nadine Matyas
Mo Levy at the Roulette Records office, sirca 1969. (Wikimedia commons/ CC BY-SA 4.0/ Richard Carlin)
November 29, 2022, 1:38 am
Jewish organized crime made jazz noteworthy – but left Black musicians flat
In his new book ‘Dangerous Rhythms,’ author TJ English exposes a dark underside of the music industry, showing how mob-adjacent Jews fought segregation while exploiting the talent
By Rich Tenorio
Carrying swastika flags, the German-American Bund parades down East 86th Street in New York City before a large rally at the Yorkville Casino. (New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Collection, Library of Congress, LC-USZ62-11748/courtesy Michael Benson)
June 18, 2022, 11:02 am
Bam! Kapow! When 1930s Jewish mobsters beat up Nazis in the streets of America
Michael Benson’s ‘Gangsters vs. Nazis’ tells how New York judge secretly directed mafia bosses Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel to recruit army of Jewish thugs to intimidate antisemites
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Polly Adler in Chicago for the 'Battle of the Long Count' heavyweight boxing championship, September 22, 1927. (Polly Adler Collection courtesy of Eleanor Vera)
February 8, 2022, 2:15 am
How Jewish immigrant Polly Adler ended up running Prohibition’s hottest bordello
Biography ‘Madam’ by Debby Applegate explores how the US alcohol ban brought high society and the underworld together – and how a young woman exploited this for fame and fortune
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: Dutch police officers near the scene of a stabbing attack near the Central Station in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, on August 31, 2018. (AP Photo/Alex Furtula)
December 24, 2021, 1:08 pm
Israeli alleged mobster shot dead in the Netherlands
Police believe ex-con Yitzhak Meiri targeted in planned hit after returning to life of crime, despite 6.5-year jail sentence
By ToI Staff
Harvey Keitel stars as Meyer Lansky in "Lansky." (Vertical Entertainment/via JTA)
June 29, 2021, 6:14 am
In ‘Lansky,’ Harvey Keitel puts legendary gangster’s Jewishness front and center
Now playing in US theaters and available on-demand, the film by director Eytan Rockaway seeks to understand the notorious criminal who supported Israel and fought Nazis
By Stephen Silver
A 1928 mugshot of Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, a Jewish American mobster, with significant influence within the Mafia and National Crime Syndicate. (Courtesy Yale University Press)
April 21, 2021, 4:33 am
How Jewish mobster Bugsy Siegel’s gamble on Vegas paid off after his murder
The movie star-handsome member of the infamous Murder, Inc. envisioned a gambling oasis in the desert, says a new book in Yale’s Jewish Lives series
By Rich Tenorio
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