In an L.A. delicatessen, a group of Brooklyn natives getstogether to discuss basketball, boxing, the weather back east, andthe Jewish gangsters of yesteryear. Meyer Lansky. Bugsy Siegel.Louis Lepke, the self-effacing mastermind of Murder, Inc. RedLevine, the Orthodox hit man who refused to kill on the Sabbath.Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, who looked like a mama's boy but once burieda rival alive. These are just some of the vibrant, viciouscharacters Rich Cohen's father reminisced about and the authorevokes so pungently in Tough Jews. Tracing a generation of Jewish gangsters from the candy stores ofBrownsville to the clubhouses of the Lower East Side--and,occasionally, to suites at the Waldorf--Cohen creates a denselyanecdotal and gruesomely funny history of muscle, moxie, and money.Filled with fixers and schlammers, the squeal of tires and therattle of gunfire, his book shatters stereotypes as deftly as itssubjects once shattered kneecaps.
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