Steph,

You may also want to contact the NY Historical Society, located in 
Manhattan.
http://www.nyhistory.org/

But after Jay's post you might not need anything else--fantastic compilation 
of resources.

Best,
Shana O'Hara

>From: Jay Heuman <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Jewish Mafia
>Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 11:12:32 -0700
>
>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
>E [log in to unmask]
>W www.slartcenter.org
>
>
>
>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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