Word: wolfsheim
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...mothers in babushkas step aside for anarchists who gather on Yom Kippur to dance, eat and sing La Marseillaise "and other hymns against Satan." Gangster Arnold Rothstein makes it all the way from Hester Street to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as the underworld character Meyer Wolfsheim. Outside New York, Jewish peddlers roam the South, and Jewish farmers plow as far away as Oregon. There are even Jewish cowboys of a sort. Writing home from Kansas, one incipient blazing saddler complains that his gun is too heavy...
...Wilson as the ill-fated Myrtle and George Wilson; Bruce Dern as Daisy's husband Tom Buchanan; Sam Waterston as the narrator, Nick Carraway; Lois Chiles as Jordan Baker; and finally Howard da Silva, who played Wilson in the 1949 version, as Gatsby's mysterious business connection Wolfsheim, "the man who fixed the 1919 World Series...
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