Dutch Schultz, born Arthur Simon Flegenheimer, was a New York City area Jewish-American mobster of the 1920s and 1930s who made his fortune in organized crime-related activities, including bootlegging and the numbers racket. Take a look below for 30 more strange and bizarre facts about Dutch Schultz. 1. Weakened by two tax evasion trials led…
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Arnold Rothstein, nicknamed “The Brain,” was an American racketeer, businessman and gambler who became a kingpin of the Jewish mob in New York City. Rothstein was widely reputed to have organized corruption in professional athletics, including conspiring to fix the 1919 World Series. Take a look below for 30 more interesting and strange facts about…
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Baruch Spinoza was a Jewish-Dutch philosopher of Portuguese Sephardi origin. By laying the groundwork for the 18th century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including modern conceptions of the self and the universe, he came to be considered one of the great rationalists of 17th century philosophy. Take a look below for 30 more awesome and…