You should also check the Nathanson Centre for the Study of Organized Crime http://www.yorku.ca/nathanson/default.htm. They have several good bibliographies and a searchable bibliogrpahic database. Here is the link for their bibliography on Jewish organized crime. http://www.yorku.ca/nathanson/bibliography/genres.htm#Jewish Courtney T. Burns Chief Curator New York State Military Museum 61 Lake Avenue Saratoga Springs, New York 12866 518-581-5105 518-581-5111 fax -----Original Message----- From: Jay Heuman [mailto:[log in to unmask]] Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 1:13 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Jewish Mafia 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... 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