Informations about Jewish Mafia?

[aleksandrored]

Hey guys, I'm interested in Jewish mafia, and I'd like to know where I can find specific information, fbi files, newspapers, books and other documents covering the period 1900-1980 or something, since it's harder to find anything about Kosher Nostra, If anyone can help me, thank you.

[JerryB]

This chart was posted by someone (possibly Pogo?) here or at the RealDeal, some time ago:

JEWISH MOB CHARTS

MURDER INC
City: New York
Time Period: 30's - 50's

1. Louis "Lou Lepke" Buchalter (The boss)
2. Albert "Mad Hatter" Anastasia (Italian member and Underboss until Lepke stepped down in 1930s)
3. Hyman "Curly" Holtz
4. Abe 'Kid Twist" Reles
5. Mendy Weiss
6. Vincent Mangano
7. Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro
8. Martin "Bugzy" Goldstein
9. Frank "The Dasher" Abbandando
10. Charles "Charlie The Bug" Workman
11. Harry "Big Greenie" Greenburgh
12. Harry "Pittsburgh Phil" Strauss
13. Harry Maine (Italian member)
14. Joe Adonis (Italian member)
15. Joe Schafer
16. Seymour "Blue Jaw" Magoon (Irish member)
17. Sholem "Sol" Bernstein
18. Max "The Jerk" Golob
19. Louis "Shadows" Kravits
20. Hyman Yuran
21. Sam Gasberg
22. Philip "Little Farvel" Kovolick
23. Irving Nitzberg
24. Louis Capone (Italian member)
25. Louis "Lou" Cohen
26. Jacob "Jake" Drucker
27. Jacob Migden

CLEVELAND SYNDICATE
City: Cleveland
Time period: 30's-70's

1. Moe Dalitz (The boss and owner of the Las Vegas Country Club, and 66% owner of the Desert Inn Hotel & Casino)
2. Louis "Lou Rhody" Rothkopf (The Underboss)
3. Leo "Charles Polizzi" Berkowitz
4. Morris "Moe" Kleinman
5. Sam Tucker
6. Rudy Kolod
7. Allard Roen

69TH STREET GANG
City: Philadelphia
Time period: 30's-40's

1. Harry "Nig" Rosen (The boss)
2. Irving Blitz
3. Waxey Gordon
4. William Weisberg
5. Sam Weisberg

ROTHSTEIN MOB
City: New York
Time period: 10's-20s

1. Arnold Rothstein (The boss)
2. Frank Erickson
3. Sam Goldstein
4. Jack "Legs" Diamond (Irish member)
5. Jack Rothstein (Brother of Arnold)

BUG & MEYER GANG
City: New York
Time Period: 30's-70's

1. Meyer Lansky (The boss)
2. Benjamin "Bugzy" Siegal (The Underboss)
3. Morris "Moey" Sedway
4. Solly Solloway (Brother-in-law of Bugzy)
5. Jacob "Jake" Lansky (Brother of Meyer)
6. Hyman "Hymie" Segal
7. Gus Greenbaum (Ran the gang from Phoenix, AZ)
8. Morrie Rosen (Cousin of Bugzy)
9. Philip "Dandy Phil" Kastel (Ran the gang from New Orleans)
10. Meyer "Mickey" Cohen (Ran the gang in L.A. after Bugzy was killed in 1947)
11. Harold "Happy" Meltzer
12. Irving Glasser
13. Abe Gordon
14. Benjamin "Bernie" Stein
15. Harry Cohen

NEW JERSEY SYNDICATE
City: New Jersey
Time period: 20's-50's

1. Abner "Longy" Zwillman (The boss)
2. Joseph "Doc" Stacher (The Underboss. Stacher, shortened from original name Oystacher, helped Lansky organize the Jewish and Italian Mafia into a national crime syndicate)
3. Willie Moretti (Italian member and hitman)
4. Joseph Zwillman (Cousin of Abner)

NOE-SCHULTZ MOB
City: New York
Time Period: 20's-30's

1. Joey Noe (The boss)
2. Dutch Schultz (The Underboss who took over after Noe was killed in 1932)
3. Abe Landau
4. Bernard "Lulu" Rosenkrantz
5. Martin "Marty" Krompier
6. Abe "Bo" Weinberg
7. George Weinberg (The brother of Abe)
8. Vince "Mad Dog" Coll (Irish member and hitman)
9. Jules Modgilewsky
10. Otto Berman


PURPLE GANG
City: Detroit

Boss: Abe Bernstein (the city's Jewish Godfather from 1925 until his death in 1968-69/founder of Purples)
Underbosses: Ray Bernstein, Joey Bernstein, Izzy Bernstein (Abe's younger brothers)
counselor: Charles "The Professor" Auerbach
finance counselor: Jacob "Scotty" Silverstein
suppliers: The Oakland Sugar House Gang led by Charlie Leiter and Henry Schor, both early mentors to the Bernsteins


Top Soldiers

Harry "H.F." Fleisher - Purples unofficial "Street Boss"
Louie Fleisher
Sam Fleisher
Joseph "Joe Honey" Miller
Abe "Abie the Agent" Zussman
Sam "Fatty" Bernstein
Jack "The Enforcer" Budd
Zigmund "Ziggie" Selbin
Hyman "Two-Gun Harry/Harry the Indian" Altman
Sam "The Gorilla" Davis
Irving "Little Irv/Slick" Shapiro
Isadore "Uncle Izzy" Kamisnky
Harry Keywell
Phil Keywell
Sam "Sammy Purple" Cohen
Ben "Benny Purple" Cohen
Sam "Sammy K" Kert
Sam "Uncle Sammy" Garfield
Sam "Sammy the Mustache" Norber
Eddie Fletcher
Abe Axler
Morris Raider
Harry Millman
Myron "Young Mikey" Selik
Solly Levine
Michel "One Armed Mike" Gelfand
Harry Kirshenbaum
David "Davey Boy" Feldman
Harry "Chinky" Meltzer
Isadore "Izzy the Rat"" Sutzker
Joeseph "Black Joe" Leibovitz
Harold "Hymie" Paul
Sam Solomon
Lou Gellerman
William "Candy" Davidson
Myron "Left Field Maxie" Silk
Jake Levitas
Ben Marcus
Norm Singer
Sam "Lefty" Handell
John Wolf

FLORIDIAN MOBSTERS:

Bennie Hussick - Trafficante/Miami Beach/Tampa
Morris Levy- Miami Beach/Lansky group
Charles Karpf - Miami Beach/Lansky
Frank Satenstein- NYC/Miami Beach
Dave Connet- NYC/Miami Beach


MINNESOTA
City: Minneapolis

Isadore "Kid Cann" Blumenfield (b. September 8, 1900 – d. June 21, 1981),
Called "the Al Capone" of Minneapolis.

David "Davie the Jew" Berman (1903, Odessa, Russian Empire – 1957, Las Vegas, Nevada). He was an American mobster in Iowa, New York City, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was also one of the pioneers of gambling in Las Vegas. He was a partner with Bugsy Siegel at the Flamingo Hotel and one of the few mobsters of his era to die a natural death.

[Pogo The Clown]

Not me. Probably posted by Furio.


Pogo

[HairyKnuckles]

Hey guys, I'm interested in Jewish mafia, and I'd like to know where I can find specific information, fbi files, newspapers, books and other documents covering the period 1900-1980 or something, since it's harder to find anything about Kosher Nostra, If anyone can help me, thank you.

You van probably find some good stuff here

https://vault.fbi.gov/gangster-era

The list above, I think, was posted by Stern/GiacomoVacari/any other of the 10 or so accounts that he uses and Furio copied it and reposted it here. It´s not reliable. For example, Murder Inc was not one gang but a loose affiliation of Jewish gangster groups in Brooklyn. Reles was head of one such group. And it´s ridiculous that Anastasia is listed as underboss to Buchalter. In fact, he was never even a member. And they did not call themselves Murder Inc, that was a name made up by newspapers.

[DPG]

That list gives you alot of places to start but it's mostly bs.

[aleksandrored]

Thanks for everything guys.

[aleksandrored]

So basically Kosher Nostra, would it be several gangs of jews that were in the US along with LCN?

[DPG]

Just think of it as an umbrella term. There was no national structure, just Jewish criminals. Just like there were/are Irish, Albanian etc criminals. None of them ever had an actual structure like the Mafia. Which is probably why the Jews stuck around. Outside of a few names you really only see Lanksy and a few other of his guys grouped in with the Italians in info I've seen from hearing on gambling and stuff like that.

[Wiseguy]

Just think of it as an umbrella term. There was no national structure, just Jewish criminals. Just like there were/are Irish, Albanian etc criminals. None of them ever had an actual structure like the Mafia. Which is probably why the Jews stuck around. Outside of a few names you really only see Lanksy and a few other of his guys grouped in with the Italians in info I've seen from hearing on gambling and stuff like that.

Yeah, the Jews never had a self-perpetuating organization like the Italians and never intended to. For most of them it was one generation involved in the underworld.

[Villain]

Regarding Chicago, you can read about them in my Lenny Patrick article. Heres one small piece from it...

"During the early 1920’s in Chicago the prime architects of the so-called Jewish or Kosher Nostra, as some journalists referred to it, were infamous criminals like Hershel and Maxie Miller, Samuel “Nails” Morton and Maxie Eisen who ruled the West Side. During that period Chicago’s West Side was the center for the Jewish community and of course of its own criminals. These guys pulled the strings that brought many powerful politicians and gangsters around the country under the umbrella of the emerging national crime syndicate. For example, the Miller brothers worked as extortionists and election enforcers for the 20th Ward alderman Emanuel “Manny” Abrahams and controlled the vice activity among the Orthodox Jews. In 1920 Hershel Miller and Nails Morton were charged with the murders of two police officers but later both were acquitted, claiming self defence. Morton was a known hijacker and protector of the Jewish community and also had connections throughout Chicago’s criminal underworld."

Also I managed to find one Israeli group from tge 1980s and most of these guys ended up in jail or returned to Israel after serving long prison terms in the United States and some are dead...

Boss:Eitan Haya

Second in command:Jonny Atias

Crew members:Roman Gonen,Nelo Hershko,Musa Alian,Joe Rysh,Eli Ojana,Ran Efraime,Alice Misrachi,Jojo Admuzgin,Natan Haziza,Michele Vazne,Moche Vacknin,Yoav Sini

[DPG]

What are your thoughts on Sydney Korshak?

[aleksandrored]

I understood, I thought it was the same as the camorra, that even if a structure the organization is indebted to several clans (here in this case they would be gangs), then the Jewish mafia was nothing more than several Jewish criminals who got involved in the underworld, making an alliance with LCN.

[aleksandrored]

Thanks for all the information, I will soon research something and if I find something interesting put here.