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This is a list of Jewish American mobsters and organized crime figures, ranging from the late 19th century to the present day.
Jewish-American organized crime initially emerged within the American Jewish community during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In media and popular culture, it has variously been referred to as the Jewish Mob, the Jewish Mafia, the Kosher Mob, the Kosher Mafia, the Yiddish Connection, [1] and Kosher Nostra [2] [3] or Undzer Shtik (Yiddish: אונדזער שטיק).
- The Insidious Rise of Nazism in America
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- Jewish Gangsters Across The Country Fought Nazis
A rise of fascism took hold in America in the late 1930s, replicating Adolf Hitler’s rise to power in Germany. By 1938, America had the third highest German population in the world. The German American Bund, led by fascist Fritz Kuhn, took full advantage, holding regular gatherings and marches celebrating Hitler and the Third Reich. They pledged to...
New York judge and former Congressman Nathan D. Perlman became concerned with the Bund’s growing presence in New York. He knew the Bund had freedoms of assembly and speech afforded them under the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment. As author Michael Benson recounts in his book, Gangsters Vs. Nazi’s: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime Ame...
Although far outnumbered by the more than 3,000 Nazis, the Jewish mobsters dished out their version of justice on April 20, 1938. The Bund presented the external illusion of strength through Nazi imagery, but they were cowardly inside. And they were no match for the Jewish gangsters’ fists and baseball bats. Afterward, Lansky and his men made their...
Shortly after the Yorkville incident, New York City banned the Bund from wearing their uniforms in the city, so they hopped across the Hudson River to Newark, New Jersey. But there, Lansky had the “Al Capone of Newark,” Abner “Longie” Zwillman, waiting. Zwillman recruited an under-ground band of boxers dubbed the “Newark Minutemen” to take them on....
Jewish gangsters used organized crime to escape the ghetto and move on to lives of violence, politics, and danger. Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, Meyer Lansky, and Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel are only a few of the Jewish gangsters who exerted significant influence on American life between the wars.
Dec 6, 2022 · Since the nineteenth century Jews have been involved in organized crime all over the U.S. Some of the most famous mafiosos including Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, and Mickey Cohen were all Jewish boys who grew into some of the most influential underground figures we know.
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Jun 26, 2018 · Tannenbaum was a hitman for Murder, Inc., the enforcement arm of the Italian-American Mafia, Jewish mob, and other organized crime groups around New York.
Oct 4, 2014 · Three infamous Detroit mobsters — Louis Fleisher, Harry Fleisher, and Henry Shorr — were in synagogue, as Jews are supposed to be all day on the Day of Atonement. Three FBI agents...
