Jewish Gangsters: A Little Known Chapter in American Jewish History

[IM2]

The claim is that Jews emphasized hard work, education and not having children out of wedlock. We are lectured about how blacks should emulate the Jews. Funny but that story leaves out a very real part of Jewish history in America.

Jewish Gangsters: A Little Known Chapter in American Jewish History​

The best known Jewish gangsters were Bugsy Siegel, Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, Longy Zwillman, Moe Dalitz, and Meyer Lansky.

A little-known chapter of Jewish American history concerns the Jewish gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. Some of the men involved had brief gangster careers, using organized crime as a way to get ahead financially, and then dropping out of the game once they had amassed a reasonably large sum of money. Others were more entrenched in the mob; swept up in the speakeasy movement during Prohibition, they continued to make money off of bootlegged liquor, prostitution rings, gambling, racketeering, loan sharking, and a murder-for-hire business popularly known as Murder Inc.

The best known Jewish gangsters were Bugsy Siegel, Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, Longy Zwillman, Moe Dalitz and Meyer Lansky. Though they wielded incredible power in America’s big cities for many years — Meyer Lansky once said that he and his colleagues were, “bigger than U.S. Steel” — their numbers thinned considerably as World War II came to an end. Many were hunted down by the authorities, and jailed or executed, but some were never caught.

None of these men were religiously observant, and they scorned many of the core values of Judaism. But in a few critical moments they lent their power to Jewish causes in America, Nazi Europe, and Palestine. Far from heroes, Jewish mobsters have come to be seen as something of a novelty in Jewish history, though their corrupt legacy continues in Israel, which struggles with Jewish-run organized crime even today.

Jewish Gangsters: A Little Known Chapter in American Jewish History | My Jewish Learning

A little-known chapter of Jewish American history concerns the Jewish gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s.

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[MarcATL]

Interesting stuff OP. Good thread!

 

[Magnus]

The claim is that Jews emphasized hard work, education and not having children out of wedlock. We are lectured about how blacks should emulate the Jews. Funny but that story leaves out a very real part of Jewish history in America.

Jewish Gangsters: A Little Known Chapter in American Jewish History​

The best known Jewish gangsters were Bugsy Siegel, Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, Longy Zwillman, Moe Dalitz, and Meyer Lansky.

A little-known chapter of Jewish American history concerns the Jewish gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. Some of the men involved had brief gangster careers, using organized crime as a way to get ahead financially, and then dropping out of the game once they had amassed a reasonably large sum of money. Others were more entrenched in the mob; swept up in the speakeasy movement during Prohibition, they continued to make money off of bootlegged liquor, prostitution rings, gambling, racketeering, loan sharking, and a murder-for-hire business popularly known as Murder Inc.

The best known Jewish gangsters were Bugsy Siegel, Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, Longy Zwillman, Moe Dalitz and Meyer Lansky. Though they wielded incredible power in America’s big cities for many years — Meyer Lansky once said that he and his colleagues were, “bigger than U.S. Steel” — their numbers thinned considerably as World War II came to an end. Many were hunted down by the authorities, and jailed or executed, but some were never caught.

None of these men were religiously observant, and they scorned many of the core values of Judaism. But in a few critical moments they lent their power to Jewish causes in America, Nazi Europe, and Palestine. Far from heroes, Jewish mobsters have come to be seen as something of a novelty in Jewish history, though their corrupt legacy continues in Israel, which struggles with Jewish-run organized crime even today.

Jewish Gangsters: A Little Known Chapter in American Jewish History | My Jewish Learning

A little-known chapter of Jewish American history concerns the Jewish gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s.

www.myjewishlearning.com

Little known? These guys are legends.

 

[IM2]

Little known? These guys are legends.

True.

But I have been given the lecture from a Jew in this forum about how Jews "made it" and how blacks should do the same thing.

 

[Magnus]

True.

But I have been given the lecture from a Jew in this forum about how Jews "made it" and how blacks should do the same thing.

Hmmm… when you have the richest musician in the world a black man who started out with nothing…a black man who was president for two terms…the list goes on…

You don’t need to justify the achievements of your race by slandering an entire ethnic group.

Leave that to the usual MAGA retards.

 

[westwall]

The claim is that Jews emphasized hard work, education and not having children out of wedlock. We are lectured about how blacks should emulate the Jews. Funny but that story leaves out a very real part of Jewish history in America.

Jewish Gangsters: A Little Known Chapter in American Jewish History​

The best known Jewish gangsters were Bugsy Siegel, Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, Longy Zwillman, Moe Dalitz, and Meyer Lansky.

A little-known chapter of Jewish American history concerns the Jewish gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. Some of the men involved had brief gangster careers, using organized crime as a way to get ahead financially, and then dropping out of the game once they had amassed a reasonably large sum of money. Others were more entrenched in the mob; swept up in the speakeasy movement during Prohibition, they continued to make money off of bootlegged liquor, prostitution rings, gambling, racketeering, loan sharking, and a murder-for-hire business popularly known as Murder Inc.

The best known Jewish gangsters were Bugsy Siegel, Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, Longy Zwillman, Moe Dalitz and Meyer Lansky. Though they wielded incredible power in America’s big cities for many years — Meyer Lansky once said that he and his colleagues were, “bigger than U.S. Steel” — their numbers thinned considerably as World War II came to an end. Many were hunted down by the authorities, and jailed or executed, but some were never caught.

None of these men were religiously observant, and they scorned many of the core values of Judaism. But in a few critical moments they lent their power to Jewish causes in America, Nazi Europe, and Palestine. Far from heroes, Jewish mobsters have come to be seen as something of a novelty in Jewish history, though their corrupt legacy continues in Israel, which struggles with Jewish-run organized crime even today.

Jewish Gangsters: A Little Known Chapter in American Jewish History | My Jewish Learning

A little-known chapter of Jewish American history concerns the Jewish gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s.

www.myjewishlearning.com

On what planet do you live? "Little known" my ass. There have been dozens of books written, movies by the score, TV shows by the dozen.

In other words, an ignorant clod, like you might not know, but pretty much everyone else does.

 

[IM2]

Hmmm… when you have the richest musician in the world a black man who started out with nothing…a black man who was president for two terms…the list goes on…

You don’t need to justify the achievements of your race by slandering an entire ethnic group.

Leave that to the usual MAGA retards.

I don't need to read the slander of my race and being lectured about how to do things by racists. So I will point out how the lectures I get are wrong, which is why I created this thread.

 

[Unkotare]

"Little known"?

???

 

[luiza]

The claim is that Jews emphasized hard work, education and not having children out of wedlock. We are lectured about how blacks should emulate the Jews. Funny but that story leaves out a very real part of Jewish history in America.

Jewish Gangsters: A Little Known Chapter in American Jewish History​

The best known Jewish gangsters were Bugsy Siegel, Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, Longy Zwillman, Moe Dalitz, and Meyer Lansky.

A little-known chapter of Jewish American history concerns the Jewish gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. Some of the men involved had brief gangster careers, using organized crime as a way to get ahead financially, and then dropping out of the game once they had amassed a reasonably large sum of money. Others were more entrenched in the mob; swept up in the speakeasy movement during Prohibition, they continued to make money off of bootlegged liquor, prostitution rings, gambling, racketeering, loan sharking, and a murder-for-hire business popularly known as Murder Inc.

The best known Jewish gangsters were Bugsy Siegel, Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, Longy Zwillman, Moe Dalitz and Meyer Lansky. Though they wielded incredible power in America’s big cities for many years — Meyer Lansky once said that he and his colleagues were, “bigger than U.S. Steel” — their numbers thinned considerably as World War II came to an end. Many were hunted down by the authorities, and jailed or executed, but some were never caught.

None of these men were religiously observant, and they scorned many of the core values of Judaism. But in a few critical moments they lent their power to Jewish causes in America, Nazi Europe, and Palestine. Far from heroes, Jewish mobsters have come to be seen as something of a novelty in Jewish history, though their corrupt legacy continues in Israel, which struggles with Jewish-run organized crime even today.

They moved on to become corrupt politicians and international bankers .

Clever enough to swap being in gangs to becoming one gang --- the Deep State .

 

[rosends]

The claim is that Jews emphasized hard work, education and not having children out of wedlock. We are lectured about how blacks should emulate the Jews. Funny but that story leaves out a very real part of Jewish history in America.

Jewish Gangsters: A Little Known Chapter in American Jewish History​

The best known Jewish gangsters were Bugsy Siegel, Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, Longy Zwillman, Moe Dalitz, and Meyer Lansky.

A little-known chapter of Jewish American history concerns the Jewish gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. Some of the men involved had brief gangster careers, using organized crime as a way to get ahead financially, and then dropping out of the game once they had amassed a reasonably large sum of money. Others were more entrenched in the mob; swept up in the speakeasy movement during Prohibition, they continued to make money off of bootlegged liquor, prostitution rings, gambling, racketeering, loan sharking, and a murder-for-hire business popularly known as Murder Inc.

The best known Jewish gangsters were Bugsy Siegel, Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, Longy Zwillman, Moe Dalitz and Meyer Lansky. Though they wielded incredible power in America’s big cities for many years — Meyer Lansky once said that he and his colleagues were, “bigger than U.S. Steel” — their numbers thinned considerably as World War II came to an end. Many were hunted down by the authorities, and jailed or executed, but some were never caught.

None of these men were religiously observant, and they scorned many of the core values of Judaism. But in a few critical moments they lent their power to Jewish causes in America, Nazi Europe, and Palestine. Far from heroes, Jewish mobsters have come to be seen as something of a novelty in Jewish history, though their corrupt legacy continues in Israel, which struggles with Jewish-run organized crime even today.

Jewish Gangsters: A Little Known Chapter in American Jewish History | My Jewish Learning

A little-known chapter of Jewish American history concerns the Jewish gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s.

www.myjewishlearning.com

Little known by whom? Notice where you got that from.

 

[luiza]

. So I will point out how the lectures I get are wrong, which is why I created this thread.

You created the Topic because you are obsessed and clinically out of balance .
Reduce your output 60% and you will become a more accepted regular source of continued humour.

 

[eagle7-31]

The claim is that Jews emphasized hard work, education and not having children out of wedlock. We are lectured about how blacks should emulate the Jews. Funny but that story leaves out a very real part of Jewish history in America.

Jewish Gangsters: A Little Known Chapter in American Jewish History​

The best known Jewish gangsters were Bugsy Siegel, Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, Longy Zwillman, Moe Dalitz, and Meyer Lansky.

A little-known chapter of Jewish American history concerns the Jewish gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. Some of the men involved had brief gangster careers, using organized crime as a way to get ahead financially, and then dropping out of the game once they had amassed a reasonably large sum of money. Others were more entrenched in the mob; swept up in the speakeasy movement during Prohibition, they continued to make money off of bootlegged liquor, prostitution rings, gambling, racketeering, loan sharking, and a murder-for-hire business popularly known as Murder Inc.

The best known Jewish gangsters were Bugsy Siegel, Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, Longy Zwillman, Moe Dalitz and Meyer Lansky. Though they wielded incredible power in America’s big cities for many years — Meyer Lansky once said that he and his colleagues were, “bigger than U.S. Steel” — their numbers thinned considerably as World War II came to an end. Many were hunted down by the authorities, and jailed or executed, but some were never caught.

None of these men were religiously observant, and they scorned many of the core values of Judaism. But in a few critical moments they lent their power to Jewish causes in America, Nazi Europe, and Palestine. Far from heroes, Jewish mobsters have come to be seen as something of a novelty in Jewish history, though their corrupt legacy continues in Israel, which struggles with Jewish-run organized crime even today.

Jewish Gangsters: A Little Known Chapter in American Jewish History | My Jewish Learning

A little-known chapter of Jewish American history concerns the Jewish gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s.

www.myjewishlearning.com

Did read one story on Moe Dalitz when he was in Las Vegas. Not sure if its true or just legend. Sonny Liston for whatever reason got into an argument with Dalitz, Liston raised his fist to the Dalitz and Dalitz apparently said something to the effect 'if you hit you me you nword you better kill me because if you don't you will be dead in less than 24 hours' Liston backed away. Again not sure if this true or not maybe legend but this story was out there.

 

[whitehall]

It's doubtful if they were Zionist or orthodox Jews but you can hate them anyway if it makes you comfortable.

 

[ozro]

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[mikegriffith1]

The claim is that Jews emphasized hard work, education and not having children out of wedlock. We are lectured about how blacks should emulate the Jews. Funny but that story leaves out a very real part of Jewish history in America.

Jewish Gangsters: A Little Known Chapter in American Jewish History​

The best known Jewish gangsters were Bugsy Siegel, Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, Longy Zwillman, Moe Dalitz, and Meyer Lansky.

A little-known chapter of Jewish American history concerns the Jewish gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s. Some of the men involved had brief gangster careers, using organized crime as a way to get ahead financially, and then dropping out of the game once they had amassed a reasonably large sum of money. Others were more entrenched in the mob; swept up in the speakeasy movement during Prohibition, they continued to make money off of bootlegged liquor, prostitution rings, gambling, racketeering, loan sharking, and a murder-for-hire business popularly known as Murder Inc.

The best known Jewish gangsters were Bugsy Siegel, Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, Longy Zwillman, Moe Dalitz and Meyer Lansky. Though they wielded incredible power in America’s big cities for many years — Meyer Lansky once said that he and his colleagues were, “bigger than U.S. Steel” — their numbers thinned considerably as World War II came to an end. Many were hunted down by the authorities, and jailed or executed, but some were never caught.

None of these men were religiously observant, and they scorned many of the core values of Judaism. But in a few critical moments they lent their power to Jewish causes in America, Nazi Europe, and Palestine. Far from heroes, Jewish mobsters have come to be seen as something of a novelty in Jewish history, though their corrupt legacy continues in Israel, which struggles with Jewish-run organized crime even today.

Jewish Gangsters: A Little Known Chapter in American Jewish History | My Jewish Learning

A little-known chapter of Jewish American history concerns the Jewish gangsters of the 1920s and 1930s.

www.myjewishlearning.com

This is neo-Nazi, racist garbage. How about we tar brush all blacks because of all the black gangs in U.S. cities? If someone posted such a thread, you and your ilk would be calling it racist. Yet, you have no problem smearing Jews and Israel because of tiny handful of non-practicing Jews who happened to be mobsters.

BTW, lots of mobsters were Catholics. Why don't you post a thread smearing all Catholics because of Catholic mobsters?

And, no, Israel does not struggle with "Jewish-run organized crime." Israel struggles with the Arab terrorists of Hamas, Hezbollah, and Fatah who murder and torture women and children and who use other Arabs as human shields.

 

[martybegan]

Little known? These guys are legends.

And they were smart enough to make sure their kids and kids kids got out of the rackets, unlike the Italians.

Organized crime requires a certain hardness that comes from growing up in difficult situations, the 2nd and 3rd gen Mafioso grew up too soft for the life.

 

[Picaro]

And they were smart enough to make sure their kids and kids kids got out of the rackets, unlike the Italians.

Organized crime requires a certain hardness that comes from growing up in difficult situations, the 2nd and 3rd gen Mafioso grew up too soft for the life.

Not entirely true. Lepke Buchalter came from a middle class family, and so did Arnold Rothstein, the biggest gangster of Prohibition. Meyer Lansky came from a nice family and was a skilled tradesman and auto mechanic. The biggest bootleggers were already wealthy before Prohibition, the Bronfman family that ended up buying Seagram's and other Canadian Jews; they dominated the American markets. Many Rabbis were bootleggers, using their religious exemptions to buy wines and deal in them. The California wine trade boomed during Prohibition due both Rabbis and Catholic priests exploiting the loopholes in the laws.