Jewish American mobsters

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Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 72. Chapters: Bugsy Siegel, Meyer Lansky, List of Jewish American mobsters, Alex Birns, Dutch Schultz, Max Mermelstein, Martin Krugman, Chris Rosenberg, Arnold Rothstein, Max Greenberg, Kid Cann, Monk Eastman, Mickey Cohen, Marat Balagula, Charles Birger, Louis Buchalter, Abe Reles, Jacob Shapiro, Frank Rosenthal, John Factor, Jake Guzik, Waxey Gordon, Abner Zwillman, Jacob Orgen, Max Zwerbach, Jack Zelig, Phillip Kastel, Samuel Levine, Moe Dalitz, Emanuel Weiss, Abraham Telvi, Nathan Kaplan, Abraham Landau, William Morris Bioff, David Berman, Herbert Blitzstein, Johnny Spanish, Morris Kessler, Benjamin Fein, Ike Bloom, Charles Solomon, Abe Bernstein, Jack Zuta, Jacob Katzenberg, Louis Cohen, Samuel Morton, Abraham Weinberg, Hyman Holtz, Gus Greenbaum, Harry Horowitz, Albert Tannenbaum, Harry Rosen, Moe Sedway, Joseph Stacher, Evsei Agron, Samuel Weiss, Boris Nayfeld, Hyman Lamer, Harry Sagansky, Hyman Abrams, Andrei Katz, Joseph Rosenzweig, Irving Feinstein, Harry Strauss, Shapiro Brothers, Joseph Linsey, Leonard Patrick, Philip Kovolick, Joseph Toblinsky, Vach Lewis, Martin Goldstein, Hyman Martin, Abraham Friedman, George Weinberg, Philip Paul, Benjamin Tannenbaum, Louis Kravits, Hyman Amberg, Whitey Krakow, Harry Keywell, Joseph C. Amberg, Harry Tietlebaum, Isadore Friedman, Harry Greenberg, Louis Amberg, Bernard Rosencrantz. Excerpt: This is a list of Jewish-American mobsters and organized crime figures, ranging from the late 19th century to the present day. Alex Birns (February 21, 1907 - March 29, 1975), also known as Shondor, was a notorious Jewish-American mobster and racketeer from Cleveland, Ohio who was once labeled as the city's Public Enemy No. 1 by the local newspapers. He was actively involved in a wide variety of racketeering and other organized crime related activities such as prostitution, theft, numbers, etc., from the days of Prohibition until his demise. Alex Birns was born Alexander Birnstein in 1907 in the town of Lemes in a section of Austria-Hungary that went to Czechoslovakia under the Versailles treaty. His parents were Herman and Illon Birnstein. Youngest of three children, he was brought to New York at the age of one month. From New York City, the family moved to Cleveland, settling in the lower Woodland Avenue district. Like many immigrant families, the Birnsteins americanized their surname to Birn. Alexander's name was abbreviated to an English translation of Zander. But the Italian and Jewish neighbors took to calling the boy "Shondor" (as the Hungarian equivalent of "Alexander" is "Sándor", pronounced roughly as most Americans would pronounce "Shondor") and the name stuck. Like most families, the Birn family struggled to earn a living in the New World. Like many immigrants during Prohibition, they turned to bootlegging, taking in a small still from Cleveland Mafia boss Joe Lonardo to supplement their income and provide better for their children. In November 1920, Birn's mother was tending to the 10-gallon still in their apartment, when a faulty gas connection caused an explosion. Her clothes caught on fire and were engulfed in flames. She ran out screaming where a passing motorist helped extinguish the flames and drove her to the hospital. Horribly burned over 75% of her body, she died the next morning. Birn was 13 at the time of his mother's death. Birn was she