List of Jewish American mobsters
This is a list of Jewish-American mobsters and organized crime figures, ranging from the late 19th century to the present day.
- Louis "Pretty" Amberg (1897-1935) [1]
- Moses Annenberg (1877–1942) [1] [2] [3] [4]
- David Berman (1903–1957)
- Otto "Abbadabba" Berman (1889?–1935) [1] [3] [4] [5]
- Abe Bernstein (c. 1892–1968)
- William Morris Bioff (1900–1955) [1] [3] [4]
- Charles Birger (1881–1928)
- Alex "Shondor" Birns (1907–1975)
- Isadore "Kid Cann" Blumenfeld (1900–1981) [3] [6]
- Louis "Lepke" Buchalter (1897–1944) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [7]
- Mickey Cohen (1914–1976) [1] [3] [4] [5] [6]
- Moe Dalitz (1899–1989) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Stanley Diamond (b. 1940)
- Monk Eastman (1873–1920) [3] [4] [5]
- Maxie Eisen [2]
- Ludwig "Tarzan" Fainberg (b. 1958)
- Benjamin "Dopey Benny" Fein (1889–1977?) [2] [3] [5]
- Waxey Gordon (1886/1889–1952) [1] [3] [4] [5]
- Gus Greenbaum (1894–1958) [1] [3]
- Max "Big Maxie" Greenberg (1883-1933) [3] [5]
- Jake "Greasy Thumb" Guzik (1886–1956) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Gyp the Blood (1889–1914) [3]
- "Kid Dropper" Nathan Kaplan (1891/1895–1923) [1] [3] [5]
- Harry Keywell (d. 1997) [6]
- Abe Landau (1898–1935) [3] [4] [5]
- Meyer Lansky (1902–1983) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
- William Lipshitz
- Red Levine (1920s–1930s) [3] [5]
- Vach "Cyclone Louie" Lewis (d. 1908) [3]
- Hyman "Pittsburgh Hymie" Martin (1903–1987)
- Samuel "Nails" Morton (1894–1923) [1] [3] [4]
- Jacob "Little Augie" Orgen (1894/1901–1927) [1] [3] [5]
- Abe "Kid Twist" Reles (1906–1941) [1] [3] [4] [5] [7]
- Chris Rosenberg (1950–1979)
- Frank "Lefty" Rosenthal (b. 1929)
- Joseph "Joe the Greaser" Rosenzweig (1910s) [3]
- Lou Rothkopf [1] [2]
- Arnold "The Brain" Rothstein (1882–1928) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [7]
- Harry "Doc Jasper" Sagansky (1897–1997)
- Dutch Schultz (1902–1935) [1] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]
- Bugsy Siegel (1906–1947) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [7]
- Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
- Charles "King" Solomon (d. 1933) [1] [3] [4]
- Johnny Spanish (1891–1919) [1] [3]
- Joseph "Doc" Stacher (1902–1977) [1] [3] [5]
- Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss (1909–1941) [1] [3] [5]
- Albert "Tick–tock" Tannenbaum (1930s) [3] [5]
- Jack "Big Jack" Zelig (1882–1912) [3] [5]
- Jack Zuta (1888–1930)
- Max "Kid Twist" Zwerbach (d. 1908) [3]
- Abner "Longy" Zwillman (1889/1891–1959) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y Sifakis, Carl. The Mafia Encyclopedia. New York: Da Capo Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8160-5694-3
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l Woodiwiss, Michael. Organized Crime and American Power: A History. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2001. ISBN 0-8020-8278-5
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae af ag ah ai Fried, Albert. The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. ISBN 0-231-09683-6
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Reppetto, Thomas A. American Mafia: A History of Its Rise to Power. New York: Henry Holt & Co., 2004. ISBN 0-8050-7798-7
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Cohen, Rich. Tough Jews: Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998. ISBN 0-684-83115-5
- ^ a b c d e Rockaway, Robert A. But He Was Good to His Mother: The Lives and Crimes of Jewish Gangsters. Jerusalem: Gefen Publishing House, 1993. ISBN 9652290920
- ^ a b c d e f Rubin, Rachel. Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000. ISBN 0-252-02539-3
Further reading
- Block, Alan A. Lepke, Kid Twist, and the Combination: Organized Crime in New York City, 1930–1944. 1976.
- Sadowsky, Sandy. Wedded to Crime: My Life in the Jewish Mafia. 1992.