> >
> >One ought not forget that the waves of Jewish immigration between
> >1890--1920 were not warmly welcomed by Jews already resident in
> >the U.S. The former were from Poland and Russia and mostly poor,
> >while the latter were predominantly German and relatively well-off.
> >The Sulzbergers settled in America in the *18*th century. Adolph
> >Ochs' family was from Bavaria and came before 1900. He bought
> >the Times with somebody else's money, usually a good sign of
> >someone already well-endowed.
> >
> >These people have little in common with most Jews, Zionist or
> >otherwise. They are different from you and me.
> >
> >mbs
Then there were may late father-in-law's family, southern Jews from pre-civil war Richmond, horse thieves, petty thugs, gangsters, hoodlums, bookies, con men, and goons in the great tradition of Benny (Buggsy)Siegel, Louis Lepke Buchalter, Benny Cohen, and Meyer Lansky. All small timers except for "Jack Southern," who was a mid-level Atlantic City mobster, big enough to get called before the Kefauver Committee.
I should say that Ray, my father in law, after a brief stint as a Philadelphia street gang member (in an integrated gang--he was proud of that), joined the Marines (in 1940!), spent four years killing Japanese in the nastiest battles of the Pacific, went to Princeton on the GI Bill, and was honest as they come. Princeton wouldn't put his gang membership in his obit, and described him as having "prepared" for Princeton at Philly's Central High, like they would have admitted in a poor Jewish gang member in 1940 or even 44, if the Marines hadn't made them do it.
jks
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