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The subject of Jewish gangsterism has been well mined in recent years by both historians and Hollywood: Albert Fried's The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America and Jenna Weissman Joselit's Our Gang: Jewish Crime and the New York Jewish Community--1900-1940 are two recent additions to the nonfiction literature, and films such as Once Upon a Time in America and Bugsy feature Jewish criminality.
Cowboy, detective, gangster, thriller, western —all refer to film categories, though gangster (or, rather, gangsterism ) can be many kinds of coercive behavior, even schoolyard bullying.
There is a startling difference between the gangster romanticism portrayed by Marlon Brando and Al Pacino and the gangsterism embodied earlier in the century by Edward G. Robinson and James Cagney.
Calling this "a systematic flouting of state authority, a murderous form of gangsterism by which republicans seek to exert their illegal authority over 'their' areas," the paper said in an editorial: "If one could imagine such a process applied across the British Isles, that would be equivalent of nearly 20,000 people violently evicted from their homes.