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- From: rburns@StarConn.com (Randall J. Burns)
- Subject: Re: Report on Gritz from Idaho
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.203218.8991@StarConn.com>
- Organization: Starnet-Public Access UNIX--Los Altos, CA 415-949-3133
- References: <1993Jan24.190540.22575@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan25.080724.28481@StarConn.com> <1993Jan25.135158.917@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:32:18 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan25.135158.917@midway.uchicago.edu> thf2@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >In article <1993Jan25.080724.28481@StarConn.com> rburns@StarConn.com (Randall J. Burns) writes:
- >
- >>So far, I've seen a lot of defensiveness, and
- >>insecurity around the situation of Jews in America(which I see as
- >>similar to the attempts in the 40's to deny that certain Sicilian ethnic
- >>Mafias really existed)
- >
- >One difference is that (1) there's no Jewish analogue to the Mafia
- Well, I suggest that you read up a bit about the history of organized
- crime.
-
- There have been a variety of ethnic mafias. The most famous is that of
- the Sicilians, but the mentor of Meyer Lansky was head of a fairly large
- crime organization that was Jewish. What actually made Meyer Lansky and
- Lucky Luciano rather unusual in their day was that their organization
- was less exclusively ethnically based than were many of the competitive
- organizations.
-
- Now, you can say this is all in the past. Well, this is an area in which
- it takes quite a while for the truth to filter out. The only _real_
- information we have is about what happened 50 years ago or so.
-
- It would probably be fair to say that Jewish crime organizations are
- probably less important now than they were 30 years ago. Large crime
- networks usually don't disappear quite so easily. To say they are
- non-existant is simply a variety of ethnic posturing. Mr. Frank is
- showing once again that he can dish it out, but he can't take it.
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