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Tough Jews / Once upon a time, back in the 1920s and 1930s, in Brooklyn, there lived a breed of men who exist now only in legend and in the memories of a few old men. Their names were Louis Lepke, Abe Reles, Bugsy Siegel, Dutch Schultz, Meyer Lansky, and they were Jewish gangsters: Jews with guns; tough, fearless Jews who roamed the streets in a time when a Jewish boy could fashion a future that was murderous, daring, and wide open.

Other Title	Fathers, Sons and Gangster Dreams
GMD	Book
Corporate Author	Crimeandcriminals--NewYork(State)--NewYork.
Classification	364.097471 COH
Publisher	New York, N.Y., Simon and Schuster, 1998
Subject	Crime and criminals--New York (State)--New York.Mafia-Organised CrimeTrue Crime--Murder--Legal HistoryNon-FictionJewish criminals--New York (State)--New YorkJews--New York (State)--New York--Social conditions
Description	271
ISBN	9780684831152
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In an L.A. delicatessen, a group of Brooklyn natives gets together to discuss basketball, boxing, the weather back east, and the Jewish gangsters of yesteryear. Meyer Lansky. Bugsy Siegel. Louis Lepke, the self-effacing mastermind of Murder, Inc. Red Levine, the Orthodox hit man who refused to kill on the Sabbath. Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, who looked like a mama's boy but once buried a rival alive. These are just some of the vibrant, vicious characters Rich Cohen's father reminisced about and the author evokes so pungently in Tough Jews.

Tracing a generation of Jewish gangsters from the candy stores of Brownsville to the clubhouses of the Lower East Side--and, occasionally, to suites at the Waldorf--Cohen creates a densely anecdotal and gruesomely funny history of muscle, moxie, and money. Filled with fixers and schlammers, the squeal of tires and the rattle of gunfire, his book shatters stereotypes as deftly as its subjects once shattered kneecaps.

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