Mafia

S2 Ep13: Bonus 01: The Jewish Connection

Organized crime and street gangs were originally strongly divided along ethnic lines, but into the 1930s, those lines began to blur, especially between the Italian and Jewish gangsters. In this bonus episode, Mafia explores how this change came about, and highlights the prolific Jews who ran the underground world: Arnold Rothstein, Meyer Lanksy, and Bugsy Siegel. 
 
Our sponsor for this episode is <a href="http://www.andrewgrossbooks.com/button-man/">Button Man by Andrew Gross</a> from <a href="https://us.macmillan.com/smp/">St. Martin's Press</a>. 
 
Mafia's theme is "Spellbound Hell" by Damiano Baldoni. Music in this episode is "Misery" and "Life" by Damiano Baldoni; "Low Horizon" by <a href="http://www.kai-engel.com/">Kai Engel</a>; "Ma Gee Katadai" and "Diya Kinduriya" by <a href="http://freemusicarchive.org/music/HR_Jothipala/">HR Jothipala</a>; "She Wolf in My Heart" by <a href="https://www.s-cheremisinov.com/">Sergey Cheremisinov</a>; "Unanswered Questions", "Backed Vibes Clean," and "Night at the Docks," by <a href="http://incompetech.com">Kevin MacLeod</a>; and "сеанс" by <a href="https://soundcloud.com/konstantin-trokay">Kosta T</a>. Sound Effects by <a href="https://freesound.org/people/RTB45/sounds/402306/">RTB45</a> from <a href="https://freesound.org/home/">freesound.org</a>. Licensed under <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License 
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Journey into the underworld of American organized crime and the stories behind the rise and fall of the most notorious mobsters in history. From Charles “Lucky” Luciano and John Gotti, to Donnie Brasco, “Bugsy” Siegel and Dutch Schultz–Mafia explores the lives of our greatest gangsters and the cops and attorneys who worked to bring them down.