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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kraus, Joe

Titel

RISING IN THE RANKS

Ist Teil von

• The Kosher Capones, 2019, p.67

Ort / Verlag

Cornell University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

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Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In his later years Bernard Neistein liked explaining how west-side Jewish politics was done. He’d give a roguish grin, take a puff on his cigar, and regale younger listeners with stories of hustling precinct captains lining up votes for the Democratic machine. The longtime greater-Lawndale-area politician outlasted Benny Zuckerman and most of his other peers from the 1940s and 1950s, and he seemed to feel there was no longer any point in hiding anything. He admitted, for instance, that he routinely lied under oath to help immigrants establish citizenship.¹ Once he’d performed such a favor, people didn’t forget at election