The Idiot Jews that Celebrate Jewish Criminals

Started by CrackSmokeRepublican, October 02, 2009, 01:46:29 AM

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October 02, 2009, 01:46:29 AM
Six For Five

llustration by Pat Hamou Text by Jessie Bodzin

When Montreal-based artist Pat Hamou came across an old lineup photo of Murder Inc. hitman Abe "Kid Twist" Reles in an old New York Daily News, he was mesmerized. He began researching figures from the golden era of Jewish organized crime in New York—"beyond the Bugsy Siegels and the Meyer Lanskys... [to] those minor players in the background," as he puts it. Four years, countless hours of crosshatching and watercoloring later, Hamou has created an impressive body of work—a beautifully textured and toned portrait of each mobster paired with a well-researched bio—that is also a blog and a book project. Hamou's series, titled "Six For Five" after the street term for money lending, can currently be seen at sixforfive.blogspot.com.

http://www.heebmagazine.com/articles/view/141
 


Abe Reles

 

Mendy Weiss

 

Lepke Buchalter

 

Arnold Rothstein

 

Abe Attel

 


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survivor2005 says,

07.15.08 at 12:07 pm

I just love these photos and thank you so much for publishing them. As I have come to a place of peace with my heritage, it is so welcome to be able to see these people my father and uncles knew and talked about in hushed tones all those many, many years ago. Shalom!
After the Revolution of 1905, the Czar had prudently prepared for further outbreaks by transferring some $400 million in cash to the New York banks, Chase, National City, Guaranty Trust, J.P.Morgan Co., and Hanover Trust. In 1914, these same banks bought the controlling number of shares in the newly organized Federal Reserve Bank of New York, paying for the stock with the Czar\'s sequestered funds. In November 1917,  Red Guards drove a truck to the Imperial Bank and removed the Romanoff gold and jewels. The gold was later shipped directly to Kuhn, Loeb Co. in New York.-- Curse of Canaan

kolnidre

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October 02, 2009, 10:12:40 AM
Nice find!

These guys are profiled in a loving, nostalgic way in the book Tough Jews, according to which Larry Zeiger, AKA Larry King, grew up with and knew them well. No surprise there. I highly recommend the book for insight into how the crime gang works, and how when Jews commit the crimes it's chutzpah, payback, and oh so cute.
Take heed to yourself lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither you go, lest it become a snare in the midst of you.
-Exodus 34]
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