Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jewish ukrainian jewish dating of the United States. The main article for this category is Jewish Americans. Note: Listed are American people for whom reliable sources have been found indicating partial Jewish ancestry, but who are not considered Jews.
For Americans who are, see Category:American Jews. Subcategories This category has the following 64 subcategories, out of 64 total. Pages in category “American people of Jewish descent” The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 653 total. Ukrainian mafia is a type of criminal organization with origins in Ukraine. Following the collapse of the former Soviet Union, there were large stockpiles of arms left in Ukraine.
The first prominence of the Ukrainian mafia came through their participation in the illicit international trafficking in these arms. From trafficking in arms, Ukrainian crime syndicates entered into the international trade in illegal drugs, becoming a major player in the narcotics traffic from Central Asia to Central Europe. The most infamous and well known form of Ukrainian organized crime is the so-called Odessa mafia named after the Black Sea port city of Odessa. Odessa is an infamous smugglers’ haven and a key hub in post-Soviet global trafficking networks, not least moving Europe-bound Afghan heroin arriving from the Caucasus. Odessa traditionally had an ancient culture of banditry, dating back to the large and impoverished Jewish population. Famous writers such as Isaac Babel often wrote about the infamous exploits of Jewish gangsters, thieves and crime lords in the port city. In the United States the Odessa mafia is based in the Brighton Beach district of Brooklyn, New York.
742 in March 2000 and has since featured in numerous Batman titles. A Ukrainian mafia family called the Zakarov Syndicate, which started out running sweatshops before moving into the crack cocaine trade in Chicago and gaining a foothold in Hong Kong, feature as antagonists in the 2007 video game Stranglehold. The TV series “Banshee” They were the main antagonist for the first two seasons. They were led by a crime boss named Rabbit who got the main protagonist Lucas Hood arrested for a jewel heist and had people torture him in prison since he and his daughter Anna tried to steal from him. When Lucas got out of prison he sent his thugs after him to kill him as well as track down his daughter. Gangsters, beggars, prostitutes and other inhabitants of Jewish Odessa”.
