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Queen of Thieves: The True Story of “Marm” Mandelbaum and Her Gangs of New York by J. North Conway / Skyhorse Publishing / 2014, pp. 240, $24.95...
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Book Review // City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York
The Big (Jewish) Apple City of Promises: A History of the Jews of New York Edited by Deborah Dash Moore NYU Press 2012, $99.00, pp. 1108 (3 volumes) Brownsville, where I grew up in the 1950s, was an Americanized shtetl. Nobody feared pogroms, but the wounds of the war in Europe...