The Jews Of Sing Sing: Gotham Gangsters and Gonuvim (Barricade Crime) - Hardcover

secret? He chose the former - and the more he --learned about his criminal great-grandfather, the

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jail. Soon after, Arons decided to expand on the --topic by exploring the lives of all Jews who

Sing-Sing prison opened in 1828, and since then, more than 7,000 Jews have served time in the famous correctional facility. The Jews of Sing-Sing is the first book to fully expose the scope of Jewish criminality over the past 150 years. Besides famous gangsters like Lepke Buchalter, thousands of Jews committed all types of crimes—from incest to arson to selling air rights over Manhattan—and found themselves doing time in Sing-Sing.