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In ‘Lansky,’ Harvey Keitel puts the legendary gangster’s Jewishness front and center
Now he’s adding to the list with “Lansky,” portraying perhaps the most famous Jewish gangster of all time, Meyer Lansky. Lansky, born in Russia in 1902, arrived in New York in 1911.
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Perlman, Lansky, and Deporting Mahmoud Khalil
As someone who lectures often on matters of Jewish history, the first thing that came to mind when seeing this, was the story ...
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Before WWII, Jewish mobsters kept Nazis at bay in the US — with their fists
In “Gangsters Vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America,” Michael Benson chronicles how Jewish leaders worked together with the likes of Meyer Lansky. (JTA ...
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The Syndicate
Young Maier Suchowlansky and Benjamin Siegelbaum, better known in later years as Meyer Lansky and Ben "Bugsy" Siegel, hailed from Brooklyn, New York. The Jewish gangs' traditional rivals were the ...
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A bloodstained past leaves the Las Vegas Strip's oldest hotel with a dilemma
Eager to get in on the ground floor, infamous New York boss Meyer Lansky and his crew backed the venture, sending 39-year-old Benjamin Siegel to Vegas to oversee construction. Amid a postwar ...