Tough Jews Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams

Name: Tough Jews Fathers, Sons, and Gangster Dreams
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ISBN: 9780375705472

ISBN-10: 0375705473

ISBN-13: 9780375705472

Edition: 1999

Authors: Rich Cohen

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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…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/20/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 5.18" wide x 7.94" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 0.572
Language: English

Rich Cohen has written for The New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine, among many other publications. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, and recently cowrote a filmscript. He lives in New York City.



Nate 'n' Al's


Abe and Buggsy


The Moderns


War in Brownsville


Delegates at Large


Corners


On the Lam


Dead or Out of Town


The Warriors


Epilogue: Nate 'n' Al's


Afterword to The Vintage Edition


A Note on Sources


Bibliography


Index