Status Updates From Our Gang : Jewish Crime and...

i have been waiting for this book, like, forever in my life and it's been there the whole time

"The embourgeoisment of New York Jewry during the interwar years had much to do with the dramatic reduction of criminal activity." Okay while I see your point that is VERY MUCH a chicken/egg argument in my opinion

oop, there we go. Benny mention too, yaaay.

yaaay Charlie mention. No Meyer yet, but soon. I can feel it.

YES GOOD YOU HAVE CHOSEN THE CORRECT OPINION RE: BLACK SOX I AM WELL PLEASED

"Nightly [humorist Will Rogers] turned to his audience and suggested that, should Rothstein's murderer be among them, he stand up and take a bow." :|

"Born on the Lower East Side in 1897, one of eleven children, Lepke had been a quiet and rather ordinary child who, according to one contemporary who knew him well, "should have turned out better."" Aw bb

"What the Assistant Secretary did not anticipate, though, was the volley of criticism leveled against him ... by Harlem Congressman Fiorello La Guardia." oh nooo don't give me reasons to like La Guardia nooo