Hi Steph:
Research materials pertaining to the Jewish mafia are plenty. Your local
library likely has some of the following . . . And a university worth it's
weight in beans (especially with a criminal law and/or American
history/studies department/program) ought to have most of these. If not,
try Barnes & Noble, Borders, Amazon.com, Powell's, etc.
Some resources are online . . . But a word of caution:
AVOID the revisionist and virulently anti-Jewish web sites called "Jew
Watch." One the surface, they appear legitimate. However, they consider
David Duke to be an expert on Jewish history, label the Simon Wiesenthal
Center a "Jewish Hate Group," and title resource categories "Jewish Mind
Control Mechanisms" and "Jewish Banking & Financial Manipulations," one
ought not accept as valid their resources.
JEWISH MAFIA/MOBSTERS
But He Was Good to His Mother : The Lives and Crimes of Jewish Gangsters
Robert A. Rockaway
Wedded to Crime: My Life in the Jewish Mafia
Sandy Sadowsky / H. B. Gilmour
Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life
Robert Lacey
[Note: Questionable conclusions]
Meyer Lansky: Mogul of the Mob
Dennis Eisenberg / Uri Dan / Eli Landau
Meyer Lansky: The Mastermind of the Mob
Mark Gribben
The Lansky Diaries
Eric Dezenhall
[Description: www.americanmafia.com/Lansky_Diaries.html]
We Only Kill Each Other: The Life and Bad Times of Bugsy Siegel
Dean Jennings
Of Rats and Men
John L. Smith
[Note: About Oscar Goodman, defense attorney to the Mob . . . who became
(still is?) mayor of Las Vegas.]
"Winning Las Vegas - Oscar Goodman's electoral campaign for the mayorship of
Las Vegas, Nevada" in Campaigns & Elections (August, 1999)
Michael Sullivan
www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2519/is_7_20/ai_55610061
The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America
Albert Fried
Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams
Rich Cohen
BOOK REVIEW: "Tough Jews" in New Statesman (August 7, 1998)
Roz Kaveney
www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_n4397_v127/ai_21058274
BOOK REVIEW: "Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius
Who Fixed the 1919 World Series" in Virginia Quarterly Review (Spring 2004)
David Lee Rubin
www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3741/is_200404/ai_n9369184
GENERAL
MAFIA, MOBSTERS, GANGSTERS, COSA NOSTRA, ETC.
Murder Inc.: The Story of the Syndicate
Burton Turkus / Sid Feder
[Note: Well-researched as Turkus was the DA prosecuting several mobsters,
but not focused on Jewish mobsters.]
The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and its Hold on America
1947-2000
Sally Denton / Roger Morris
The Black Book and the Mob : The Untold Story of the Control of Nevadašs
Casinos
Ronald A. Farrell / Carole Case
WEB SITES
From Court TV's Crime Library
Meyer Lansky
www.crimelibrary.com:80/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/lansky/index_1.html
Bugsy Siegel
www.crimelibrary.com:80/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/siegel/index_1.html
Arnold Rothstein
www.crimelibrary.com:80/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/rothstein/index_1.html
Mickey Cohen
www.crimelibrary.com:80/gangsters_outlaws/mob_bosses/mickey_cohen/1.html
Murder Inc. [Note: Harry Strauss, George Rudnick, Puggy Feinstein, etc.]
http://www.crimelibrary.com:80/gangsters_outlaws/gang/inc/1.html
The Purple Gang
www.crimelibrary.com:80/gangsters_outlaws/gang/purple/1.html
FBI's resources about Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel:
foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/siege.htm
You could look into more minor figures like Moe Dalitz of the Cleveland
Syndicate and Sam Ziegman (bookie) in and around Omaha.
If you have questions, feel free to contact me directly. I should be able
to point you to resources . . . But you'll have to write your own paper.
<Just teasing & stating the obvious!> *smirk*
Best wishes, sincerely,
Jay Heuman, Curator of Education
Salt Lake Art Center
20 South West Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
T 801-328-4201
F 801-322-4323
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On 2/23/05 3:47 PM, "Steph" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi there... Im doing a research paper on the Jewish Mafia and I was
> wondering if anyone knew anything at all about it or knew where I could
> find info on it in new your city... thanks so much
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