Search results
3 days ago · Courtesy of Random House. She was an adoring Jewish mother, a generous benefactor to her synagogue, Rodeph Sholom, and a proper 19th century lady who wore floor-length silk gowns. But Fredericka ...
5 days ago · America’s first major organized crime boss was a Jewish woman whose name almost no one knows today. She was Fredericka Mandelbaum, the subject of a new historical nonfiction book by Margalit Fox.
17 hours ago · Fredericka Mandelbaum was a mother of four, a successful shopkeeper, an employer who appreciated unusual talent—and one of her era’s great criminal pioneers. The ingenious, imposing subject of Margalit Fox’s rollicking new book—The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized-Crime Boss—was a German Jewish immigrant in 19th century Manhattan.
1 day ago · Another Israeli organization, Keren Ohr, operates guesthouses where couples experiencing stillbirth and fertility challenges can retreat. ... Ronit Calderon-Margalit, director of the School of ...
1 day ago · PressReader. Catalog; For You; Clarion Ledger. July’s releases include new Brad Watson story collection, biography of a lady crime boss 2024-07-07 - Tracy Carr . July in Mississippi is brutal, but it is good for one thing: staying inside under a fan with a great new book.
5 days ago · Let’s do it for Marm! Author Margalit Fox returns to talk her new book, The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum: The Rise and Fall of an American Organized Crime Boss. So good. Come listen! Buy The Talented Mrs. Mandelbaum Check out Margalit’s website
1 day ago · With a pickpocket's finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York."-Liza Mundy, author of The Sisterhood In 1850, an impoverished twenty-five-year-old named Fredericka Mandelbaum came to New York in steerage and worked as a peddler on the streets of Lower Manhattan. By the 1870s she was a fixture of high society and an admired philanthropist.
