The Starker: Big Jack Zelig, the Becker-Rosenthal Case, and the Advent of the Jewish Gangster St. Simons Trilogy and even the ocean

and even the ocean

Seattle Seahawks lineman Grant Wistrom

Based on readings that are rich in imagery—some poetic

The updates in this collection speak to the Jewish community today

in all their variety

The Starker: Big Jack Zelig, the Becker-Rosenthal Case, and the Advent of the Jewish Gangster St. Simons Trilogy and even the oceanSelig Harry Lefkowitz, alias Big Jack Zelig, was New York's first great gangster boss. Like many of his pre Volstead contemporaries, his historic impact has been overshadowed by Al Capone and Murder Inc. He is listed in today's crime anthologies primarily because four members of the gang, along with corrupt cop Charles Becker, died in the electric chair for the July 1912 murder of gambler Herman Rosenthal. In New York City from 1908 to 1912, however,