New York Journal American, 1939,1944.
New York Sun, 1931.
New York Times, 1920-1947, 1956, 1959, 1973-1976, 1989.
Philadelphia Jewish Exponent, 1928.
Time, 4 September 1939.
Washington Star, 1942.
Yedioth Ahronoth (Heb.), March 1972
Interviews
Adler, Haskel. Detroit, Mich., 18 August 1989.
Avivi, Daniel. Herzlia, Israel, 3 April 1991.
Brin, Herb. Los Angeles, Calif., 27 August 1991.
Dafni, Reuven. Jerusalem, Israel, 7 June 1989.
“Dutch.” Herzlia, Israel, 24 November 1989 Fleisch, Harry. Detroit, Mich., 20 July 1985.
Golan, Eli. Herzlia, Israel. 26 November 1992.
Goldstein, Irving “Itzik.” Newark, N.J., 16 August 1990.
Greenfield, Murray. Tel-Aviv, Israel, 15 May 1988.
Hessel, Sam. Detroit, Mich., 23 July 1986.
Hinkes, Max “Puddy.” Newark, N.J., 16 August 1990.
Jacobs, Charles. Boston, Mass., 20 August 1992.
Kessler, Hershel, Los Angeles, Calif., 14 September 1989.
Kugel, Jerry. Newark, N.J., 15 August 1990.
Lansky, Meyer, telephone conversation, 27 August 1980.
Levinsky, Lorri. Tel-Aviv, Israel, 5 April 1990.
“Mervin.” Tel-Aviv, 19 April 1991.
M.S. Tel-Aviv, Israel, 16 April 1991.
Prosky, Elsie. Tel-Aviv, Israel, 1 January 1991.
Rubin, A. Tel-Aviv, Israel, 10 June 1980.
Schaffer, Lester. Philadelphia, Penn., 14 August 1991.
Simons, Leonard. Detroit, Mich., 20 August 1985.
Skuratofsky, Fay. Newark, N.J., 16 August 1990.
Slomovitz, Philip. Detroit, Mich., 10 September 1989.
Stern, David. Tel-Aviv, Israel, 3 September 1992.
Sugerman, Myron. Tel-Aviv, Israel, 19 April 1991.
Unterman, Jeremiah. Boston, Mass., 16 December 1986.
Weiner, Heshy. Newark, N.J., 16 August 1990.
Books
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Asbury, Herbert. The Gangs of New York: An Informal History of the New York Underworld. New York: Knopf, 1927.
Bayor, Ronald H. Neighbors in Conflict: the Irish, Germans, Jews and Italians of New York City, 1929-1941. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978.
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Bergreen, Laurence. Capone: The Man and the Era. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Berkow, Ira. Maxwell Street. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1977.
Berman, Susan. Easy Street. New York: Dial Press, 1981.
Block, Alan. East Side-West Side: Organizing Crime in New York, 1930-1950. New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1983.
Bolkosky, Sidney. Harmony and Dissonance: Voices of Jewish Detroit, 1914-1967. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1991.
Bonanno, Joseph, with Sergio Lalli. A Man of Honor: The Autobiography of the Boss of Bosses. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983.
Byrnes, Thomas. 1886 Professional Criminals of America. New York: Chelsea House, 1969 [1886].
Cohen, Mickey, with John Peer Nugent. In My Own Words: The Underworld Autobiography of Michael Mickey Cohen. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1975.
Clarke, Donald Henderson. In the Reign of Rothstein. New York: Vanguard Press, 1929.
Conot, Robert. American Odyssey. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1986 [1974].
Courtwright, David, Herman Joseph, and Don Des Jarlais. Addicts Who Survived: An Oral History of Narcotics Use in America. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1989.
Cressy, Donald R. Theft of a Nation: The Structure and Operations of Organized Crime in America. New York: Harper & Row, 1969.
Demaris, Ovid. The Last Mafioso: The Treacherous World of Jimmy Fratiano. New York: Times Books, 1981.
Dewey, Thomas E. Twenty Against the Underworld. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1974.
Dinnerstein, Leonard. Antisemitism in America. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.
Einstein, Izzey. Prohibition Agent Number 1. New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1932.
Eldridge, Benjamin P and William B. Watts. Our Rival, the Rascal. Boston: Pemberton Publishing Company, 1896.
Engelmann, Larry. Intemperance: The Lost War Against Liquor. New York: The Free Press, 1979.
Eisenberg, Dennis, Uri Dann, Eli Landau. Meyer Lansky: Mogul of the Mob. New York: Paddington Press, 1979.
Feldstein, Stanley. The Land That I Show You: Three Centuries of Jewish Life in America. Garden City: Anchor Press, 1978.
Fox, Stephen. Blood and Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth Century America. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989.
Fried, Albert. The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980.
Gervais, C.H. The Rumrunners: A Prohibition Scrapbook. Ontario, Canada: Firefly Books, 1980.
Goren, Arthur. New York Jews and the Quest for Community: The Kehilla Experiment, 1908-1922. New York: Columbia University Press, 1970.
Gosch, Martin and Richard Hammer. The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1974.
Helmer, William, and Rick Mattix. Public Enemies: America’s Criminal Past, 1919-1940. New York: Facts On File, 1998.
Holli, Melvin G., ed. Detroit. New York: New Viewpoints, 1976.
Jennings, Dean. We Only Kill Each Other: The Life and Bad Times of Bugsy Siegel. Englewood Cliff, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1968.
Joselit, Jenna Weissman. Our Gang: Jewish Crime and the New York Jewish Community, 1900-1940. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1983.
Karp, Abraham. Haven and Home: A History of the Jews in America. New York: Schocken Books, 1985.
Katcher, Leo. The Big Bankroll: The Life and Times of Arnold Rothstein. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1959.
Lacey, Robert. Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1991.
Landesco, John. Organized Crime in Chicago. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968 [1929].
Maas, Peter. The Valachi Papers. New York: Putnam, 1968.
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Messick, Hank. Lansky. New York: Putnam, 1971.
Messick, Hank. Secret File. New York: Putnam, 1969.
Messick, Hank. The Silent Syndicate. New York: Macmillan, 1967.
Murray, George. The Legacy of Al Capone. New York: Putnam’s, 1975.
Nelli, Humbert, The Business of Crime: Italians and Syndicated Crime in the United States. New York: Oxford University Press, 1976.
O’Kane, James M. The Crooked Ladder: Gangsters, Ethnicity, and the American Dream. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 1992.
Reid, Ed, and Ovid Demaris. The Green Felt Jungle. New York: Trident, 1963.
Rockaway, Robert. The Jews of Detroit: From the Beginning, 1762-1914. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1986.
Rudensky, Red. The Gonif. Blue Earth, Minnesota: The Piper Company, 1970.
Ruth, David E. Inventing the Public Enemy: The Gangster in American Culture, 1918-1934. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.
Sachar, Howard. A History of Israel. New York: Knopf, 1976.
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Smith, Richard Norton. Thomas E. Dewey and His Times. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1982.
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Willemse, Cornelius. Behind the Green Lights. Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, 1931.
Zion, Sidney. Loyalty and Betrayal: The Story of the American Mob. San Francisco: Collins Publishers, 1994.
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Bak, Richard. “Dusting Off the Purple Gang.” Detroit Monthly (December 1992): 67-70, 109.
Goren, Arthur. “Saint and Sinners: The Underside of American Jewish History.” Cincinnati: Brochure Series of the American Jewish Archives, Number VII (1988).
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Index of Gangsters
A
Abbandando, Frank “the Dasher/’ 28, 159
Accardo, Tony, 52, 165 Adonis, Joe, 22, 23, 28, 165 Alberts, William (see Zelig, Jack) Alderman, Willie “Ice Pick,” 153, 189
Alpert, Alexander “Red,” 158 Alterie, Louis “Two Gun,” 219 Altman, Hymie, 49, 76 Amberg, Louis “Pretty,” 29-31 Anastasia, Albert, 23,46,138,161, 246
Annenberg, Moses “Moe,” 203206
Axler, Abe, 79-81, 84-86, 89
B
Berman, Davie, 182-191, 233, 234 Berman, Otto ‘Abbadabba,” 145 Bernstein, Ray, 48, 63-69, 87, 92 Bloom, Harry, 54 Bloom, Yiddy, 54
Blumenfeld, Isidore “Kid Cann,” 54-56, 188, 233
Bonnano, Joe, 46, 244 Bruno, Angelo, 41 Brotki, Samuel, 99, 101 Buchalter, Louis “Lepke,” 7, 24-29, 35, 43, 132, 134-143, 144, 145, 150, 151, 161, 165, 206, 238
C
Capone, Al, 8, 50, 51, 81, 83, 109, 165
Caspar, Samuel, 95 Catalanotte, Samuel, 91 Catena, Gerry, 35, 170 Cohen Mickey, 61, 62,175-178,182, 234-236, 249-252, 253 Colbeck, Dinty, 78 Costello, Frank, 13, 22, 28, 35, 40, 46, 161, 165, 188, 244 Cowan, Louis “Diamond Louie,” 50
D
Dalitz, Morris “Moe,” 44, 46,47,48, 241
Davis, Sam “the Gorilla,” 48 De Carlo, Angelo “Gyp,” 35
Diamond, Jack “Legs,” 13, 20, 31, 150, 151
Dragna, Jack, 166, 176, 177 E
Eastman, Monk, 104-108 Egan, Jellyroll, 78 Eisen, Maxie, 50
F
Fein, Benjamin “Dopey Benny,” 15, 102, 103
Feinstein, Puggy, 155 Flegenheimer, Arthur “Dutch Schultz,” 7, 13, 15, 16-20, 23, 28, 31,43, 144-150, 197, 208 Fleisch, Harry, 61
Fleisher, Harry, 48, 63, 65, 69, 76, 87, 90
Fleisher, Louis, 88, 89 Fletcher, Eddie, 79, 80, 83, 85, 86, 89
Fratianno, Jimmy “the Weasel,” 250-252
G
Gaetz, Bendick “the Cockroach,” 96 Gambino, Carlo, 46, 174, 192 Genovese, Vito, 23, 148, 174, 192 Giancana, Sam, 52 Gleckman, Leon, 56, 57 Goldstein, Martin “Buggsy,” 28, 135, 160, 161, 162 Gordon, Waxey, 13,15,16,119-122, 132, 144, 195, 196 Greenbaum, Gus, 169
Greenthal, Abe “the General,” 95, 96
Guzik, Jack “Greasy Thumb,” 5154, 128-132, 165, 178,212,213, 241, 242
H
Hassel, Maxie, 210 Hinkes, Max “Puddy,” 18-20, 126, 224, 225, 231,232 Hoff, Max “Boo Boo,” 7, 39, 40, 57, 208, 238
Horowitz, Harry “Gyp the Blood,” 110, 111
J
Jacobson, Sam “Sammy the Greener,” 50
K
Kaplan, Nathan “Kid Dropper,” 150, 151
Katz, Sam “Big Sue,” 170, 171 Kay, Sam, 247 Kelly, Paul, 109 Kessler, Hershel, 9 Keywell, Harry, 63, 65, 66, 68, 69, 76, 83, 85, 92
Keywell, Phillip, 49, 83, 86, 87, 92 Klein, Julius “Sheeny,” 97 Klein, Sidney “Big Red,” 114 Kleinman, Morris, 44, 47 Kurtz, Michael “Sheeny Mike,” 97, 98, 99
Kushner, Harry, 214 Kushner, Irving, 214
L
LaMarre, Chester, 91 Landau, Abe, 145 Lansky, Meyer, 7, 9, 15, 20-24, 28, 35, 40, 43, 46, 59, 61, 93, 115117, 119, 120, 122, 124, 125, 137, 144, 153, 154, 163, 165, 167-169, 174, 188, 189, 201203, 205, 208, 209, 217, 218, 228-231,238, 241,246, 252 Lebovitz, Joseph “Nigger Joe,” 6365, 67
Leebove, Arthur, 253 Levine, Abraham “Pretty,” 28, 215 Levine, Hymie “the Loudmouth,” 50
Levine, Solomon, 63, 65, 69 Levine, Samuel “Red,” 23, 154 Licavoli, Peter, 92, 192 Licavoli, Yonnie, 92 Lowenthal, Frank “Sheeny Irving,” 96
Lucchese, Thomas “Three Finger Brown,” 137, 192 Luciano, Charles “Lucky,” 13, 14, 17, 22-24, 28, 35, 46, 109, 119, 120, 137, 144, 145, 148, 154, 161, 162, 165, 169, 174, 188
M
Maione, Harry “Happy,” 28, 91, 159
Maranzano, Salvatore, 23,149,154
Marcus, Joe, 187
Masseria, Joe, 22, 23, 119, 149
Milberg, Irving, 63-66, 68, 69, 76, 80, 81, 85-87, 92 Miller, Davey, 227-228 Millman, Harry, 49, 90, 91 Moran, George “Bugs,” 81, 83 Moretti, Willie, 35 Morton, Samuel “Nails,” 219-221
N
Nitti, Frank, 52
O
O’Banion, Dion, 219 Orgen, Jacob “Little Augie,” ISO-152
Osterman, Edward (see Monk Eastman)
P
Paul, Herman “Hymie,” 63-65, 67 Pioggi, Louis “Louie the Lump,” 108-109 Polizzi, Al, 46 Porter, Billy, 98-99 Profaci, Joseph, 192
R
Raider, Morris, 76, 87, 92 Raider, Phil, 76 Reinfeld, Joseph, 33 Reles, Abe “Kid Twist,” 28, 135, 137, 158-162 Ricca, Paul, 52
Rosen, Nig (see Harry Stromberg) Rosenkrantz, Bernard “Lulu,” 145146
Rosenthal, Herman “Beansie,” 111 Rosenzweig, Louis “Lefty Louie,” 222
Rothkopf, Louis, 44, 47 Rothstein, Arnold, 9-15, 29, 133, 203
Rudensky, Morris “Red,” 84 Rudnick, George, 155
S
Schultz, Dutch (see Arthur Flegenheimer)
Sedway, Moe, 153, 166, 169, 179181, 189, 242
Seidenshner, Jacob “Whitey Lewis,” 222
Selbin, Ziggy, 89
Shapiro, Jake “Gurrah,” 132-134, 151, 198,215 Shaw, Edward, 49 Shorr, Henry, 76, 90 Siegel, Benjamin �
��Bugsy,” 7, 15, 2024, 28, 35, 43, 46, 119, 122, 135, 144, 153, 162-170, 176, 188-190, 236, 247-248 Smiley, Allen, 247-248 Solomon, Charles “King,” 7, 42, 43, 208
Stacher, Joseph “Doc,” 21, 22, 33, 38, 122-124, 178, 202 Stein, Sam, 253
Strauss, Harry “Pittsburgh Phil,” 28, 91, 135, 154-157, 159, 162 Stromberg, Harry, 40-41 Sutker, Joseph, 63-65, 67 Sutton, Willie “the Actor,” 17
T
Tane, George, 216, 217 Tannenbaum, Albert, 145, 198 Toblinsky, Joseph “Yoski Nigger,” 102, 103
Tocco, William, 192 Torrio, John, 52, 109, 165 Tucker, Sam, 44, 47
V
Valachi, Joe, 23
Vaccarelli, Paolo (see Paul Kelly)
W
Weinberg, Abe “Bo,” 23 Weiss, Mendy, 145, 161 Weisberg, Willie, 41, 42, 61 Wexler, Irving (see Waxey Gordon) Wolensky, Moe “Dimples,” 137 Workman, Charley “Bugs,” 145, 196-201
Z
Zelig, Jack, 104, 109-112, 222-223 Zerilli, Joseph, 44, 91-93, 192 Zweibach, Max “Kid Twist,” 108, 109, 222
Zwillman, Abner “Longy,” 7, 1820, 28, 31-39, 43, 46, 59, 122, 126, 135, 144, 165, 17—175, 191, 193, 194, 205, 208-210, 214, 224, 231,238, 242, 243
While doing research for this hook. Robert Rockaway interviewed old-time Jewish mobsters and their families. He never knew what his subjects would say or do, so he came prepared for any eventuality.
Robert Rockaway was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in history from the University ol Michigan in 1970. He taught at the University of Texas before coming to live in Israel in 1971. Since then, he has been a member of the Department of Jewish History at Tel Aviv University.
He is the author of The Jews of Detroit: From the Beginning, 1762-1914 (1986) : Immigrants, Workers and Gangsters: Chapters in American Jewish History (Hebrew, 1990) : and Words of the Uprooted: Jewish Immigrants in Early 20th Century America (1998)
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