Hyman Abrams
{{Short description|Russian-American gangster (1901–1975)}}
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|birth_place = Vilnius, Russian Empire
|death_date = January 1975 (aged 73)
|death_place = Las Vegas, Nevada
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|nationality = American
|known_for = Mafia associate, Mafia financier
|education = The Mather SchoolStaff (June 19, 1913). [https://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=73870469 "Boston Public School Graduates Number 9,789"]. The Boston Globe.
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Hyman Abrams (born Abramovitz; May 1, 1901 – January 1975)U.S., Naturalization Records Indexes, 1794–1995 was an American businessman, Boston mobster, and high-ranking member under Charles "King" Solomon during Prohibition.
Biography
Abrams was born into a Jewish family{{cite book|url=|first=John P.|last=Marschall|title=Jews in Nevada: A History|pages=173|publisher=University of Nevada Press|date=February 1, 2008|isbn=9780874177374|quote=Most of the hotel builders were Jewish Americans: ...Hyman Abbrams, Carl Cohen, and Jack Entratter with the ownership and operations of the Sands}} in Vilnius, Russian Empire (now Lithuania), the son of Israel and Ethel "Etta" Dimenstein Abramovitz. They immigrated to Boston in 1906.1910 United States Federal Census He became a U.S. citizen in 1923, when he changed his surname to Abrams. He started out as a restaurateur in Boston.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oiuVDwAAQBAJ&dq=Hyman+Abbrams+sands&pg=PT79|first= Eugene P. |last=Moehring|authorlink=|title=Resort City In The Sunbelt, Second Edition: Las Vegas, 1930-2000 |pages= |publisher=University of Nevada Press|date=May 1, 2000|isbn=978-0874173567}}\ Abrams and other members of Solomon's organization took over Boston's criminal operations for themselves following Solomon's murder in 1933. He would later become involved in financing syndicate controlled casinos with Meyer Lansky, specifically the Flamingo and later the Sands with Carl Cohen and Jack Entratter. In 1957, he partnered with Moe Dalitz, Morris Kleinman, Sam Tucker, Wilbur Clark (of the Desert Inn and Lansky's Hotel Nacional casino), Ed Levinson (of the Fremont Hotel and Casino), Charles "Babe" Baron (who represented Sam Giancana), and Morris Rosen (of the Flamingo Hotel) to build the Hotel Habana Riviera casino in Havana.{{Cite news|first=Norm |last= Clarke|authorlink= |title= Lansky Heirs at Odds |newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal|date=April 3, 2016 |url=https://www.reviewjournal.com/local/the-strip/much-anticipated-t-mobile-arena-opens-with-a-bang/ |accessdate=}}
In 1968, Abrams married Harriet Janice Allison, a dancer in Las Vegas.{{Cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |title=Harriet Janice Abbrams (nee Allison), 80, passed away peacefully Aug. 25, 2014, at home in Las Vegas, surrounded by her loved ones. |newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal |date=August 25, 2014 |url=https://obits.reviewjournal.com/us/obituaries/lvrj/name/harriet-abbrams-obituary?pid=172502669 |accessdate= }}{{Dead link|date=August 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} They divorced in 1971.Nevada, U.S., Divorce Index, 1968–2015 He died in January 1975 in Las Vegas.U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935–2014
Further reading
- Fried, Albert. The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980. {{ISBN|0-231-09683-6}}
- Messick, Hank. Lansky. London: Robert Hale & Company, 1973. {{ISBN|0-7091-3966-7}}
- Reid, Ed and Demaris, Ovid. The Green Felt Jungle. Montreal: Pocket Books, 1964.
- Schwartz, Rosalie. Pleasure Island: Tourism and Temptation in Cuba. U of Nebraska Press, 1997. {{ISBN|0-8032-9265-1}}
References
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- Fox, Stephen. Blood and Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth-Century America. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989. {{ISBN|0-688-04350-X}}
External links
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- [https://books.google.com/books?id=KZCUIxhP7ikC&pg=PA23 Mr. Mob: The Life and Crimes of Moe Dalitz - Google Books]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=OSqBs8QgxZIC&pg=PA103 The business of crime: Italians and syndicate crime in the United States - Google Books]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=5xwkf8jpHo0C&pg=PA151 The Jewish body - Google Books]
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Category:Jewish American gangsters
Category:Businesspeople from Boston
Category:Date of death unknown
Category:20th-century American criminals
Category:American businesspeople in real estate
Category:American restaurateurs
Category:American casino industry businesspeople
Category:Emigrants from the Russian Empire to the United States