Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream
Rebecca Keys
In a brief life that led to a violent end, Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel rose from desperate poverty to ill-gotten riches, from an early-twentieth-century family of Ukrainian Jewish immigrants on the Lower East Side to a kingdom of his own making in Las Vegas.
Join Vanity Fair writer Michael Shnayerson for a 60-minute discussion in which Shnayerson sets out not to absolve Bugsy Siegel, but rather to understand him in all his complexity.
This program took place on Jul 22, 2021 in partnership with Park Avenue Synagogue, United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism, and Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning.
