December 5 | 7pm
Join Gideon Levy of NYC Gangster Tours for a lively discussion and slideshow about the history of Jewish Gangsters in New York.
Otherwise known as the “Kosher Nostra,” one generation of Jewish Gangsters introduced loan sharking, large-scale gambling and contract killing to the world of Organized Crime. Learn about the origins of New York’s criminal underworld and how the greatest Jewish Gangsters in America got in, got rich and got out.
Presented in conjunction with Mazel Tough: Jewish Gangsters of NY 1900 – 1945, Illustrated Portraits by Pat Hamou, on view through Feb. 22nd 2015