# Tough Jews

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- Book: [Tough Jews](https://www.bookquiver.com/rich-cohen/tough-jews) ([Tough Jews.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/rich-cohen/tough-jews.md))
- Authors: [Rich Cohen](https://www.bookquiver.com/rich-cohen)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9975-791-7
- Pages: 272
- Published: 1999-04-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Once upon a time, back in the 20s and 30s, in Brooklyn, there lived a breed of men who exist now only in legend and in the memories of a few old men. Their names were Louis Lepke, Abe Reles, Bugsy Segel, Dutch Shultz, Meyer Lansky, and they were Jewish gangsters: Jews with Guns; tough, fearles Jews who roamed the streets in a time when a Jewish boy could fashion a future that was murderous and daring and wide open. Rich Cohen's father grew up in that world; his family owned the diner where the gangsters known as Murder Incorporated hung out. In TOUGH JEWS he tells their stories and brilliantly evokes their world - a world of street corners and bars and nightclubs; a world where murder was better than cowerdice; where killings were planned and executed with precision and finesse; a world of feuds, wars, schemes, where living into middle age was akind of victory; a world in which for a brief moment, Jews were among the most important criminals in America.