Tag: Michael Benson: Gangsters Vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America

Quotes May 26, 2023

The meaning was clear. The evil Nazis needed gats, but even armed, they were no match for a knuckle sandwich dished out by a red-blooded American boy.
 
 
 
 
It is important to non-Jews as well as to Jews. Any nation which permits a minority to live in fear of persecution is a nation which invites disaster.
PROFESSOR L. B. NAMIER
 
 
 
 
Once evil is invited in, tremendous effort is required to show it to the door and kick its cloven hoof off the threshold.
E. A. BUCCHIANERI
 
 
 
 
They should know that being a Nazi is dangerous.
JUDGE NATHAN D. PERLMAN
 
 
 
 
The stage was decorated with a swastika and a picture of Hitler. There weren’t that many of us, but we went into action hard. We threw some of them out the windows. We wanted to show them that Jews do not always sit back and accept insults.
MEYER LANSKY
 
 
 
 
The Jewish gangsters all had chips on their shoulders. Jewish kids were bullied, and they believed a Jew needed to be tough and stand up and fight. Lansky attributed the philosophy to an elder who once told him, “If you are going to die, die fighting.”
 
 
 
 
Back then there was only one place in America tougher than Brooklyn: Newark, New Jersey.
Al Nit
 
 
 
 
Jewish boxers were brave and tough, but they did fear one personage above all others—their mothers.
Mike Silver
 
 
 
 
We will undermine the morale of the people of America. Once there is confusion and after we have succeeded in undermining the faith of the American people in their own government, a new group will take over; this will be the German-American group, and we will help them assume power.
ADOLF HITLER, 1933
 
 
 
 

Michael Benson: Gangsters Vs. Nazis: How Jewish Mobsters Battled Nazis in Wartime America