Dangerous fellows reading the Torah.
(There’s a whole lost world of Jewish-American gangster music in this
creepily alluring compilation of tunes from the Twenties to the Sixties
put together by artist Almog and DJ Shantel. While it’s interesting to
hear Tom Jones and the Andrews Sisters adopting Eastern European
melodies, it’s veteran Yiddish performers such as Aaron Lebedeff and the
Bagelman Sisters who steal the show.
Kosher Nostra is an unparalleled journey back in time to the music clubs, vaudeville
theaters and gambling casinos in the U.S.A. The sound can be described
as a wild mix of swing, jazz, twist, Charleston and the adorable charm
of Yiddish songs and ballads. The idea of Jewish gangsters in America is
not something that is deeply engrained in the popular imagination. Yet
nobody who looks into the history of the American mafia can deny the
extent to which such figures as Meyer Lansky, Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Dutch Schultz or Louis "Lepke" Buchalter shaped the machinations of the underworld, along with the classic Sicilian godfathers).
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