People from Grodno - Meyer Lansky, Paul Baran, Alexander Bogdanov, Juliusz Rommel, Alaksandar Milinkievi, Manya Shochat, Olga Korbut (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Meyer Lansky, Paul Baran, Alexander Bogdanov, Juliusz Rommel, Alaksandar Milinkievi, Manya Shochat, Olga Korbut, Leon Bakst, Sergei Gurenko, Yehezkel Abramsky, Michoel Fisher, Aleksei Antonov, Bronis aw Bohatyrewicz, Yevgeniy Misyulya, Zygmunt Florenty Wroblewski, I. M. Rubinow, Naftoli Trop, Aleksandr Kurlovich, Vladimir Dubrovshchik, Ivan Trotski, Yehoshua Leib Diskin, Jerzy Maksymiuk, January Suchodolski, Volha Tsander, Robert Wartenberg. Excerpt: Meyer Lansky (born Meyer Suchowljansky; July 4, 1902 - January 15, 1983), known as the "Mob's Accountant," was a Russian Empire-born American organized crime figure who, along with his associate Charles "Lucky" Luciano, was instrumental in the development of the "National Crime Syndicate" in the United States. For decades he was thought to be one of the most powerful people in the country. Lansky developed a gambling empire which stretched from Saratoga, New York to Miami to Council Bluffs and Las Vegas; it is also said that he oversaw gambling concessions in Cuba. Although a member of the Jewish Mafia, Lansky undoubtedly had strong influence with the Italian Mafia and played a large role in the consolidation of the criminal underworld (although the full extent of this role has been the subject of some debate). Lansky was born Meyer Suchowljansky in Grodno (then in the Russian Empire, now in Belarus), to a Jewish family who experienced pogroms at the hands of the local Christian Polish and Russian population. In 1911, he emigrated to the United States through the port of Odessa with his mother and brother and joined his father, who had previously emigrated to the United States in 1909, and settled on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, New York. Lansky met Bugsy Siegel when he was a teenager. They became lifelong friends, as well as partners in the bootlegging trade, and...