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Meyer Lansky


 

Meyer Lansky (born Majer Suchowliński, July 4, 1902January 15, 1983), was a gangster born in Grodno, then part of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth occupied by the Russian Empire but now in Belarus. His parents were Polish Jews. He was instrumental in the development of the American mafia.

Further reading

  • Robert A. Rockaway, "But— He Was Good To His Mother: The Lives and Crimes of Jewish Gangsters", Jerusalem, Gefen Publishing House, 1993
  • Robert Lacy, "Little Man: Meyer Lansky and the Gangster Life", Boston, Brown and Company, 1991
  • Hank Messick, "Lansky", New York, 1971