Jews & Crime
& Espionage

Contents

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All ten chapters. Fiction chapters open onto an A–Z directory with one page per author.

  1. 1 Introduction: Bibliographies on Jews and Crime/Espionage
  2. 2 Observations and Further Questions
    1. 2.1 Age
    2. 2.2 Gender
    3. 2.3 “Geezer Noir” and “Geezer Cozy”
    4. 2.4 Guardians of the Jewish People?
    5. 2.5 Psychological thrillers
    6. 2.6 Police Procedurals
    7. 2.7 Diverse Historical Settings
    8. 2.8 Legal Thrillers
    9. 2.9 Comic, humorous and satirical crime fiction
    10. 2.10 Holocaust Consciousness
      1. 2.10.1 Sven-Erik Rose, Making and Unmaking Literature in the Warsaw, Lodz and Vilna Ghettoes
    11. 2.11 Jewish Identity of Authors and Protagonists
    12. 2.12 Legends of the Lamed-Vav and The Golem
    13. 2.13 Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah
    14. 2.14 The Jewish White Slave Industry
    15. 2.15 Social-Political Perspectives on Jewish Crime
    16. 2.16 Israel
    17. 2.17 Appendix: Publishers
    18. 2.18 Appendix: The Russian Connection
    19. 2.19 Appendix: Graphic Book Artists
    20. 2.20 Appendix: Connection to Professional Sports
    21. 2.21 Appendix: Reformed Jewish Gangsters
  3. 3 U.S. Jewish Criminals, Detectives, Spies, et al – FICTION
    1. 3.1 List of 206 U.S. Fiction Authors
    2. 3.2 U.S. Geographical Distribution of Fictional Protagonists
    3. 3.3 U.S. Author Bios & Relevant Works, A-Z [+ selected authors covered]
      1. 3.3.1 Paul Auster
      2. 3.3.2 Synopsis: Leslie Barry, Newark Minutemen (with hist. background)
      3. 3.3.3 Saul Bellow
      4. 3.3.4 Jerome Charyn
      5. 3.3.5 Harlan Coben
      6. 3.3.6 Henry Denker
      7. 3.3.7 E.L. Doctorow
      8. 3.3.8 Nathan Englander
      9. 3.3.9 Bruce Jay Friedman
      10. 3.3.10 Kinky Friedman
      11. 3.3.11 Harry Grey
      12. 3.3.12 Ben Hecht
      13. 3.3.13 Joseph Heller
      14. 3.3.14 Dara Horn
      15. 3.3.15 Michael A. Kahn
      16. 3.3.16 Stuart M. Kaminsky
      17. 3.3.17 Faye Kellerman
      18. 3.3.18 Harry Kemelman
      19. 3.3.19 Rochelle Majer Krich
      20. 3.3.20 Meyer Levin
      21. 3.3.21 Robert Littell
      22. 3.3.22 Bernard Malamud
      23. 3.3.23 Marge Piercy
      24. 3.3.24 Lawrence W. Raphael
      25. 3.3.25 Lev Raphael
      26. 3.3.26 Tova Reich
      27. 3.3.27 Philip Roth
      28. 3.3.28 Budd Schulberg
      29. 3.3.29 Irving Shulman
      30. 3.3.30 Roger L. Simon
      31. 3.3.31 Edward Lewis Wallant
      32. 3.3.32 Jerome Weidman
      33. 3.3.33 Kenneth Wishnia
  4. 4 U.S. Jewish Criminals, Detectives, Spies, et al – NON-FICTION: History, Biography, Analysis
    1. 4.1 Early Jewish Gangsters
      1. 4.1.1 Arnold Rothstein
      2. 4.1.2 Lepke Buchalter and Murder, Inc
      3. 4.1.3 Meyer Lansky
      4. 4.1.4 Bugsy Siegel
      5. 4.1.5 Dutch Schultz
      6. 4.1.6 Mickey Cohen
      7. 4.1.7 Chicago Jewish Crime Figures
    2. 4.2 General Reference: Non-fiction on Jews and Crime in the U.S., including synopses of the following works:
      1. 4.2.1 Michael Alexander, Jazz Age Jews
      2. 4.2.2 Herbert Asbury, The Gangs of New York
      3. 4.2.3 Michael Benson, Gangsters vs. Nazis
      4. 4.2.4 Stephen Birmingham, The Rest of Us
      5. 4.2.5 Rich Cohen, Tough Jews
      6. 4.2.6 Albert Fried, The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America
      7. 4.2.7 Jenna Weissman Joselit, Our Gang
      8. 4.2.8 Robert Rockaway, But He Was Good To His Mother
      9. 4.2.9 Steven J. Ross, Hitler in Los Angeles
      10. 4.2.10 Laurence Roth, Inspecting Jews
      11. 4.2.11 Rachel Rubin, Jewish Gangsters of Modern Literature
      12. 4.2.12 Dan Slater, The Incorruptibles
      13. 4.2.13 Alex Tepperman, “Vicious Bastards and Complete Bores”
    3. 4.3 Recent American Jewish Malefactors and Jewish Reactions
      1. 4.3.1 Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) on “Jewish Backlash Fatigue”
      2. 4.3.2 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
      3. 4.3.3 Jonathan Pollard
      4. 4.3.4 Ivan Boesky
      5. 4.3.5 Ivan Boesky and Michael Milken
      6. 4.3.6 Bernie Madoff
      7. 4.3.7 Sackler Family
      8. 4.3.8 Harvey Weinstein
      9. 4.3.9 Jeffrey Epstein
      10. 4.3.10 David Berkowitz (“Son of Sam”)
      11. 4.3.11 Sam Bankman-Fried
    4. 4.4 American Jews and Law-Enforcement
      1. 4.4.1 Jack Kitaeff, Jews in Blue
      2. 4.4.2 Mordecai Dzikansky, Terrorist Cop
      3. 4.4.3 Ralph Friedman, Street Warrior
      4. 4.4.4 Sam Kestenbaum, “Inside the Heads, Hearts and Yarmulkes of Jewish Cops”
      5. 4.4.5 Albert Seedman, Chief!
      6. 4.4.6 Adam Dickter, “Safir’s Mixed Legacy”
      7. 4.4.7 Jessica Tisch (articles)
      8. 4.4.8 Chicago
      9. 4.4.9 Federal Agents Izzy Epstein and Moe Smith
    5. 4.5 U.S. Jewish Prosecutors
    6. 4.6 Roy Cohn
    7. 4.7 Prominent U.S. Jewish Criminal Defense Lawyers
    8. 4.8 Prominent U.S. Jewish Judges
    9. 4.9 The Jewish Defense League (JDL)
  5. 5 Israeli Secret Agents, Spies, Detectives, Criminals, etc. – Fiction & Non-Fiction
    1. 5.1 List of 75 Israeli Fiction Authors
    2. 5.2 Note on Translations from Hebrew to English
    3. 5.3 Israeli Author Bios & Relevant Works, A-Z [+ selected authors covered]
      1. 5.3.1 Aharon Appelfeld
      2. 5.3.2 Mishka Ben-David
      3. 5.3.3 Haggai Carmon
      4. 5.3.4 Assaf Gavron
      5. 5.3.5 David Grossman
      6. 5.3.6 Batya Gur
      7. 5.3.7 Simon Louvish
      8. 5.3.8 Dror Mishani
      9. 5.3.9 Amos Oz
      10. 5.3.10 Matt Beynon Rees
      11. 5.3.11 Meir Shalev
      12. 5.3.12 Daniel Silva
      13. 5.3.13 Lavie Tidhar
      14. 5.3.14 A.B. Yehoshua
    4. 5.4 Non-fiction Books and Articles on Israelis and Crime/Espionage
      1. Books and articles, by authors A-Z
    5. 5.5 Books and articles on the Pre-State Struggle Against the British Mandate
    6. 5.6 Israeli Law Enforcement (focus on Police)
    7. 5.7 Publications by Israeli Lawyers and Judges
      1. 5.7.1 Yitzhak Zamir, “The Bus 300 Affair”
    8. 5.8 Israeli Organized Crime
    9. 5.9 Yigal Amir
  6. 6 Canadian Jews and Crime/Espionage – Fiction and Non-Fiction
    1. 6.1 List of 14 Canadian Fiction Authors, A-Z
    2. 6.2 Author Bios & Relevant Works, A-Z
    3. 6.3 Non-fiction Books and Articles on Canadian Jews and Crime
      1. 6.3.1 Montreal
      2. 6.3.2 Toronto – Hamilton – Ontario
      3. 6.3.3 Toronto – Christie Pits Riot
      4. 6.3.4 Toronto – Idsinga, Hank, The High Road: Confessions of a Homicide Cop
    4. 6.4 Prominent Canadian Jewish Lawyers and Judges
      1. 6.4.1 Chief Justice Bora Laskin
      2. 6.4.2 Justice Rosalie Abella
      3. 6.4.3 Judge Harry Batshaw
      4. 6.4.4 Morris Fish
      5. 6.4.5 Raphaël H. Schachter
      6. 6.4.6 Harvey Yarosky
      7. 6.4.7 Marshall Rothstein
      8. 6.4.8 Chief Justice Alan B. Gold
      9. 6.4.9 Irwin Cotler
    5. 6.5 Canada – General
    6. 6.6 The Fred Rose Affair
    7. 6.7 Dr. Henry Morgentaler
  7. 7 U.K. Jews and Crime/Espionage - Fiction & Non-Fiction
    1. 7.1 List of 21 U.K. Fiction Authors, A-Z
    2. 7.2 Author Bios and Relevant Works, A-Z
    3. 7.3 Non-fiction Books and Articles on UK Jews and Crime/Espionage
      1. 7.3.1 History of Jewish criminal activity in the UK
      2. 7.3.2 Post-War U.K. Jewish Self-Defense
        1. 7.3.2.1 From the 43 Group to the 62 Group to the C.S.T
        2. 7.3.2.2 Shomrim – Jewish Neighbourhood Patrols
      3. 7.3.3 Synopsis: Malcolm J. Turnbull, Victims or Villains: Jewish Images in Classic English Detective Fiction
      4. 7.3.4 Synopsis: Margalit Fox, Conan Doyle for the Defense
    4. 7.4 Prominent U.K. Jewish Barristers, Solicitors and Judges
  8. 8 International - Jewish Detectives, Spies, Criminals, et al - Fiction and Non-Fiction
    1. 8.1 List of 58 International Fiction Authors, A-Z
    2. 8.2 Author Bios and Relevant Works, A-Z [+ selected authors covered]
      1. 8.2.1 Armando Bezés – a Ladino detective story
      2. 8.2.2 Umberto Eco & the Protocols of the Elders of Zion
      3. 8.2.3 Romain Gary and his Two Prix Goncourt
      4. 8.2.4 Franz Kafka, the Quintessential Outsider
      5. 8.2.5 Imre Kertész and State Brutality
      6. 8.2.6 Danilo Kiš and Stalinist totalitarianism
      7. 8.2.7 Adam LeBor, Budapest and UN Protagonists
      8. 8.2.8 Karim Miské and Muslim-Jewish relations in France
      9. 8.2.9 Joseph Opatoshu and Yiddish Criminals in Poland
      10. 8.2.10 Dina Rubina and Russian Literature in Israel
      11. 8.2.11 I.B. Singer – Tension between tradition and modern secularism
    3. 8.3 Non-Fiction - International Works on Jews and Crime, Espionage, etc. (including the following books):
      1. 8.3.1 General and Miscellaneous
        1. 8.3.1.1 Synopsis: Michael Berkowitz, The Crime of My Very Existence: Nazism and the Myth of Jewish Criminality
        2. 8.3.1.2 Synopsis: Arnold Goldsmith, The Golem Remembered
        3. 8.3.1.3 Ephraim Shoham-Steiner, Jews and Crime in Medieval Europe
      2. 8.3.2 France
        1. 8.3.2.1 Pierre Goldman, Dim Memories of a Polish Jew Born in France
        2. 8.3.2.2 Serge & Beate Klarsfeld, Hunting the Truth
        3. 8.3.2.3 Lisa M. Leff, The Archive Thief
        4. 8.3.2.4 Service de Protection du Communauté Juive (SPCJ)
        5. 8.3.2.5 Sammy Ghozlan
        6. 8.3.2.6 Prominent Post-War French Jewish Legal Personalities
      3. 8.3.3 Argentina/Uruguay
        1. 8.3.3.1 Alberto Nisman
      4. 8.3.4 Australia
      5. 8.3.5 The Netherlands
      6. 8.3.6 Germany/Austria
        1. 8.3.6.1 Dr. Bernhard Weiss
      7. 8.3.7 Yiddishland/Pale of Settlement/Russia/Ukraine
        1. 8.3.7.1 Eddy Portnoy, Bad Rabbi
  9. 9 Filmography – 128 Movies, Films, and TV Series About Jews, Crime and Espionage (listed in chronological order of release)
  10. 10 Index
  11. About the Compiler/Author