Title:
Gangsters vs Nazis : how Jewish mobsters battled Nazis in wartime America / Michael Benson.
ISBN:
9780806541792
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Publication Information:
New York, NY : Citadel Press/Kensington Publishing Corp., [2022]
©2022
Physical Description:
x, 287 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction: the sock on the jaw – Preamble: fade in -- Part One. The cloven hoof -- Jewish gangsters -- Rise of fascism -- Fritz Kuhn -- Nazi youth camps -- Part Two. New York City -- Judge Perlman and Meyer Lansky -- Murder, Inc. -- The list -- Yorkville -- White Plains -- Part Three. Chicago -- Father Coughlin, radio priest -- Herb Brin, fighter of fascists -- Sparky and Barney -- The Germania Club -- Part Four. Newark -- Longie Zwillman -- Nat Arno -- Arno's Army -- Schwabbenhalle -- Irvington -- Union City -- Return to the Schwabbenhalle -- Part Five. Middle America -- William Dudley Pelley -- Davey the Jew -- The Elks Lodge beatdown -- The Great Lakes cities -- Part Six. West Coast -- The Hollywood war -- Mickey Cohen and Bugsy Siegel -- Part Seven. The Bund's last gasp -- Garden party -- Pearl Harbor -- Nazi perverts and thieves.
Summary:
The stunning true story of the rise of Nazism in America during the 1930s and 1940s--and the fearless Jewish gangsters and crime families who joined forces to fight back with a vengeance. With an intense cinematic style, acclaimed nonfiction crime author Michael Benson divulges the thrilling role of Jewish mobsters like Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel in stomping out the terrifying tide of Nazi sympathizers in the years leading to WWII. -- Adapted from Amazon.
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OCLC Number:
on1294395203
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