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Fredericka "Marm" Mandelbaum was born in 1818 in the country of Prussia. She immigrated to the United States in 1848 with her husbands Wolfe Mandelbaum. A big woman, tipping the scales at over 250 pounds, Mandelbaum opened a dry goods store at 79 Clinton Street, the corner of Rivington, on the ground floor of a three-story building that she later purchased with her ill-gotten gains. By 1854, the dry goods store was a front for the biggest fencing operation in the history of New York City. She lived on the top two floors of the building with her husband, son and two daughters, and their apartments were as lavishly furnished as any in the city, of course, with stolen goods. Among the famous crooks she dealt with were Shang Draper, George Leonidas Leslie, Banjo Pete Emerson, Mark Shinburn, Bill Mosher and Joe Douglas.
Mandelbaum was known for throwing lavish parties in her apartment, attended by every known criminal in the city, of both sexes, including judges and politicians she had in her back pocket. Knowing woman were as good, or even better crooks than men, she became good friends with female criminals like Black Lena Kleinschmidt, Big Mary, Ellen Clegg, Queen Liz, Little Annie, Old Mother Hubbard and the notorious pickpocket and shoplifter Sophie Lyons, who with her bank-robber husband Ned moved right over the Hudson River to New Jersey and became known as the Queen of Hackensack.
Mandelbaum first caught the eye of the police in 1862 and it is estimated that from 1862 to 1884, she handled between $5-10 million of stolen property. Her business was so good, she decided to put some of her best crooks on salaries, but abandoned that idea when she caught a few of them peddling their stolen goods to other fences. (What did she expect? Honest crooks?) She also decided to start a school for children on Grand Street, where the little tykes could learn the noble profession from the ground up, starting as pick-pockets and sneak thieves. For the older children, she offered courses in burglary, safe-breaking, blackmailing and confidence games. Her school became so well know, the son of a prominent police official applied for admittance, forcing Mandelbaum to shut down the school immediately.
Whenever Mandelbaum did get herself into trouble, she could always count on Little Abe Hummel and Big Bill Howe, from the law firm of Hummel and Howe (not to be confused with the law firm of Dewey, Screwem and Howe), to find whatever loophole they could find, legal and illegal, to keep Mandelbaum out of jail. Hubble and Howe were of such good service to Mandelbaum, she placed them on an annual retainer of $5000.
In 1884, the New York District Attorney Peter B. Olney hired the Pinkerton Detective Agency to infiltrate Mandelbaum's crime organization. One of the detectives sold her a stolen shipment of silk, and when her house was raided the next day, she was arrested with her son Julius and clerk Herman Stroude. Mandelbaum was charged with grand larceny and receiving stolen goods. But the wily Hubble and Howe arranged for Mandelbaum to be released on bail. Resorting to form, she jumped bail and moved to Toronto, Canada, where she lived the rest of her life in comfort.
To add insult to injury, New York state got hoodwinked by Hubble and Howe and a crooked bondsman, who was supposed to have held the property Mandelbaum had pledged for bail. Using backdated checks, they transferred the property to Mandelbaum's daughter, along with other properties the state was in the process of putting liens on. Putting her finger in the eye of the New York City police, Mandelbaum, still wanted for her crimes. traveled several times to New York City, in disguise, to take up with her old pals, helping them plan several heists.
Having screwed the American government as much as any women in American history, Mandelbaum died of natural causes in Canada, in 1894, at the age of 76. Howe died peacefully in bed in 1903, but in 1905, Little Abe Hummel was sent to prison for several counts of legal malpractice.
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The Other Prussia $38 A study of national identity in Royal Prussia - the 'other Prussia', part of the Polish state from 1454 to 1793. |
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Kingdom of Prussia $105.14 The Kingdom of Prussia was a German kingdom from 1701 to 1918 and, from 1871 until the defeat of Germany in World War I, was the leading state of the German Empire, comprising almost twothirds of the area of the empire. It took its name from the territory of Prussia, although its power base was Brandenburg. Author: Miller, Frederic P./ Vandome, Agnes F./ McBrewster, John Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 144 Publication Date: 2009/11/03 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.33 inches |
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Prussia : The History of a Lost State $32.18 No Synopsis Available |
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Pietism and the Making of EighteenthCentury Prussia $100.37 How did as small and backward a state as Prussia transform itself to compete successfully in war against states with far greater human and financial resources? Richard Gawthrop finds the answer to this perennial question in the creation of a unique political culture, in which service to the Prussian state took precedence over all other relationships and commitments. The campaign to inculcate the new ideology of disciplined energetic obedience to the state authority derived its moral vision and institutional forms from Lutheran Pietism, a German version of ascetic Protestantism strongly influenced by English Puritanism. This work describes systematically how the collaboration between Pietism and the Prussian state not only led to an increase in the latters power but also laid the cultural basis for the subsequent political modernization of Germany. Author: Gawthrop, Richard L. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 Publication Date: 2006/11/02 Language: English Dimensions: 6.14 x 9.21 x 0.66 inches |
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Pietism and the Making of Eighteenth-Century Prussia $50 This work describes the relationship between Pietism and the rise of the Prussian state. |
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Map of Prussia $19.99 Abraham Ortelius Map of Prussia - Premium Poster |
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Austria, Prussia and the Making of Germany (Paperback) $54.13 This volume on the events leading to the unification of Germany in 1871 will add to an extremely strong cluster of Seminar Studies books on revolution, nationalism and state-creation in nineteenth century Europe. |
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West Prussia $68.51 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles West Prussia was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia from 17731824 and 18781919/20 which was created out of the earlier Polish province of Royal Prussia. After Germany was defeated in 1918, in February 1920 it handed over West Prussias central parts to become the socalled Polish Corridor and the Free City of Danzig, while the parts remaining with the German Weimar Republic became the new PosenWest Prussia or were joined to the Province of East Prussia as Regierungsbezirk West Prussia. The territory was included within Reichsgau DanzigWest Prussia from 193945, after which it became part of Poland. The territory of former West Prussia is currently divided between Polands Pomeranian and KuyavianPomeranian Voivodeships. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Timpledon, Miriam T./ Marseken, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 88 Publication Date: 2010/07/10 Language: English Dimensions: 6.00 x 9.00 x 0.21 inches |
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Royal Prussia $78.07 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles Royal Prussia (Polish: Prusy Krlewskie; Latin: Prussia Regalis) was a Region of the Kingdom of Poland from 1466, then of the PolishLithuanian Commonwealth (15691772). Royal Prussia included Pomerelia, Chemno Land (Kulmerland), Malbork Voivodeship (Marienburg), Gdask (Danzig), Toru (Thorn), and Elblg (Elbing). Royal Prussia is distinguished from Ducal Prussia. Royal Prussia was a part of Poland, but Ducal Prussia was merely under Polish suzerainty as a Polish fief, (until 1657, when it passed outright to the Electors of Brandenburg, having been in personal union with Brandenburg since 1618). In old texts (until the 16th/17th c.) and in Latin the term Prut(h)enia refers to Royal Prussia, its eastern neighbour Ducal Prussia and their common predecessor Teutonic Prussia alike. The pertaining contemporary adjective is Prut(h)enic. Administratively Royal Prussia was part of the Greater Poland Province together with Greater Poland proper, Masovia, and czyca and Sieradz Voivodeships, with the Province capital being Pozna. Author: Surhone, Lambert M./ Timpledon, Miriam T./ Marseken, Susan F. Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 108 Publication Date: 2010/07/03 Language: English Dimensions: 5.98 x 9.01 x 0.25 inches |
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Hetalia: Prussia Messenger Bag $29.99 Hetalia: Prussia Messenger Bag Color: Black 43 |
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King Frederick I of Prussia $34.99 Pesne King Frederick I of Prussia - Giclee Print |
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Frederick the Great of Prussia $34.99 English School Frederick the Great of Prussia - Giclee Print |
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Rise of Prussia $9.95 Rise of Prussia is the latest release from AGEOD, and is a follow–up to their successful historical strategy games Birth of America, American Civil War, Napoleon's Campaigns, and Wars in America. Rise of Prussia covers the European campaigns of the Seven Years’ War (1756–1763). |
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Notes of a Traveller, on the Social and Political State of France, Prussia, Switzerland, Italy $30.22 No Synopsis Available |