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 > >========================================================= >Important Subscriber Information: > >The Museum-L FAQ file is located at >http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed >information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail >message to [log in to unmask] . 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