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From the Archives | A Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Letter

Hadassah Assouline

From the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe to his wife, written in America in the late 1920s Hadassah Assouline Sunday, 6 Iyar, on a train from Detroit to St. Louis To my dear wife, With gratitude to...

20th centuryAmericaColumnsIssue 1 | April 2010People

The Jewish American Secret Police

Hadassah Assouline

A Jewish community organization in New York dealt with myriad issues, even creating an internal police force to deal with rising crime Hadassah Assouline In early September 1908, the chief of the New York City...

20th centuryAmerican JewsColumnsIssue 11 | July 2012New YorkPeople

Ticket to Riches

Rebecca Kobrin

The waves of migration from eastern Europe did not simply ebb and flow. Orchestrated by the entrepreneurial spirit of the likes of Sender Jarmulowsky, they created surges of capital. The trade in ship tickets changed...

20th centuryArticlesIssue 11 | July 2012New YorkPeople

My Son, the Gangster

Robert Rockaway

New York’s Jewish gangsters lived fast and furious. Exploiting the criminal opportunities created by Prohibition, they masterminded a network of crime that spread far beyond New York and earned their fellow Jews’ scorn – and...

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From the Archives | A Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Letter

The Jewish American Secret Police

Ticket to Riches

My Son, the Gangster

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The Jewish American Secret Police

Ticket to Riches

My Son, the Gangster

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