A “Ghoulish Jamboree”: The Not-So-Jewish Jewish Funeral of Mob Boss Bessie Starkman
Bessie Starkman (1889-1930), along with her lover Rocco Perri, was one of the most notorious crime bosses in 1920s Canada. When unknown thugs murdered the fortyyear-old at her Hamilton, Ontario home, Canada’s underworld lost one of its most powerful figures, and according to one writer “the only Je...
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The Association for Canadian Jewish Studies/York University Libraries
2024-01-01
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| Online Access: | https://cjs.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/cjs/article/view/40337 |