Exlpore the world of pre-Prohibition era gangsters like Monk Eastman, Max “Kid Twist” Zweifach, “Big” Jack Zelig and Benjamin “Dopey” Fein – pivotal figures in the organizing of crime in New York City who paving the way for men like Arnold Rothstein, Meyer Lansky and "Bugsy" Siegel.

Discuss the Jewish immigrant experience on the Lower East Side and conditions that led to organized gangsterism, and learn how the Jewish Mob expanded out of the slums and into a contemporary organized crime syndicate.

With Rose Keefe, author of The Man Who Got Away: The Bugs Moran Story, Guns and Roses: The Untold Story of Dean O'Banion, Chicago's Big Shot before Al Capone, and The Starker: Big Jack Zelig, the Becker-Rosenthal Case, and the Advent of the Jewish Gangster

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