The Jews of Sing-Sing

by Arons, Ron

• ISBN13: 9781569803332
• ISBN10: 1569803331
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-10
• Publisher: Barricade Books

Summary

Sing-Sing prison opened in 1828, and since then, more than 7,000 Jews have served time in the famous correctional facility. The Jews of Sing-Sing is the first book to fully expose the scope of Jewish criminality over the past 150 years. Besides famous gangsters like Lepke Buchalter, thousands of Jews committed all types of crimes--from incest to arson to selling air rights over Manhattan--and found themselves doing time in Sing-Sing.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. v
Introduction	p. ix
Isaac Spier: Part I	p. 1
Sing Sing's Beginnings and the Earliest Jewish Inmates	p. 19
Edward "Monk" Eastman	p. 33
"Dopey" Benny Fein	p. 55
"Gyp," "Lefty," and "Whitey": The Becker/Rosenthal Affair	p. 67
Isidore Fishbein: Prostitution	p. 93
Israel Dobreniewski: Abandonment and Bigamy	p. 117
Benjamin Gitlow: Anarchy	p. 137
Isaac Spier: Part II	p. 169
Louis "Lepke" Buchalter	p. 181
Irving "Waxey Gordon" Wexler	p. 209
Louis Shomberg: Behind the Scenes	p. 235
Isaac Spier: Part III	p. 267
My Tour of the Prison	p. 281
Appendices
Very Short Stories	p. 294
Statistics Regarding Jewish, Italian, and Irish Criminals Incarcerated at Sing Sing	p. 301
Jewish Criminals Who Died in Sing Sing's Electric Chair	p. 306
The Interconnectedness of Jewish Criminals	p. 308
Jewish Chaplains at Sing Sing	p. 309
Addresses and Map of Jewish Criminals' Residences as Children and Young Adults	p. 310
Prison Sentences Served by Major Characters in This Book	p. 312
Overlapping Prison Sentences of Jewish Criminals	p. 315
Sources by Chapter	p. 317
Index	p. 340
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