At 28, Nathan Kaplan was a legend. Four years later, he was dead.
‘My heart lay with the workers,’ said ‘Dopey Benny’ Fein, expert organizer and ‘shtarker’ of the Lower East Side
An ugly New York City extortion racket at the turn of the last century
In an excerpt from the new history ‘The Last Pirate of New York,’ a son connects his father’s Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, to the original American gangsters who preceded them
How the Jewish mob fought American admirers of the Third Reich
How the FBI prevented Jewish American gangsters from altering the course of history in 1933
How the Prohibition-era HBO show portrays its Jewish gangsters
How the Jewish gangster helped establish Las Vegas as a gambling mecca
Prohibition-era hit squad’s handiwork appears on Boardwalk Empire
They stole. They murdered. But many Jewish mobsters still saw religious observance as an integral part of their identity.
The real-life gangster was a few years too late for the Prohibition-era show
This season’s time jump bypasses much of the bootlegger’s criminal career
The ruthless Jewish gangster is all business on the Prohibition-era HBO show
HBO show’s final season opens in 1931, after the real-life gangster was killed
At the intersection of artifice and experience comes a beguiling fantasia on Jewish themes, ‘I Pity the Poor Immigrant’
Before writing a novel about the gangster’s immigrant yearnings, I went digging in the dark corners where he lived
From “Argo” to “Gangster Squad,” a celluloid news round-up
My husband’s great-uncle was generous and entertaining—and a member of Detroit’s Jewish crime syndicate