Kingpins, Crime Busters, and the Birth of the American Underworld

In the early 1900s New York City was a vortex of vice and corruption. On the Lower East Side, Eastern European Jews formed a web of crime syndicates. But when a murder attracted global attention, a coterie of affluent German-Jewish uptowners took matters into their own hands. Taking the fight against crime to the heart of the city, they waged war on the sin threatening their community. Author of The Incorruptibles, Dan Slater tells this story. *

This talk will be moderated by Professor Thorin Tritter

Kaplen JCC on the Palisades, Tenafly, New Jersey, 10:30am