An ugly New York City extortion racket at the turn of the last century
How the Prohibition-era HBO show portrays its Jewish gangsters
They stole. They murdered. But many Jewish mobsters still saw religious observance as an integral part of their identity.
Before writing a novel about the gangster’s immigrant yearnings, I went digging in the dark corners where he lived
The conclusion of our weeklong series on the world of the Israeli mafia
A Tablet investigative series looks inside the world of the Israeli mafia
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