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In 'Uncle Charlie Killed Dutch Schultz,' author Alan Geik tells about 'heimishe' first-generation US Jews bootlegging, running gambling rackets and committing the occasional murder
Instead of scrapping their way up from New York’s Jewish enclaves into retail and the professions, Geik’s family joined a criminal counterculture.
(New York Jewish Week) - The Geiks weren't your typical Bronx working-class Jewish family. The father ran a mob-protected trucking company in
Alan Geik chronicles the hitmen, gangsters and dirty cops who were part of his Bronx extended family in the heyday of the Jewish mob.
Meet the family whose close ties to Jewish gangsters are chronicled. It's an offer you can't refuse.