"Yiddish Gangs!" Topic

I was ordering robed cultists form Amazon when I saw these

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I ordered some for Occult wars but they would equally be good for Mobsters, perhaps the Bagel Gang or Pulp or possibly Weird War two

Or militant Spurs fans?

Though in my experience Tottenham fans never have that much fight in them. Good at running away, though.

Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel's religious uncles?

Thanks very much for that link! They are perfect for our Weird War 2 stuff.

Not to be difficult, but Yiddish is a language. (A mix of Hebrew and German).

I think what you meant is Hasidic Gangs (although I suppose the models could pass for any Orthodox Jews).

Don't be such a kvetcher, Bede. A Yiddish gang is a gang composed of Yidden. Ikh bin a Yid, un Ikh hob a Yiddisher Momma. Freut euch, Yiddelach!

Oi! Oi! We're the Brews..sporting anti-swastika tatoos….

Sorry gents not known for my religeous studies at school :0)

Nice, about what size are they?

I ordered them Today so I will let you know once I get them

How long before Bill gets demands for a Yiddish language board?

Oy gevalt, not more boards.

OnT, I love these.

I'm trying to figure out a way to justify using Copplestone's Gangsters and Back of Beyond together…now I'm going to have to include these guys – and girl!

Yes very nice but you can't wargame with them on Saturdays

"I'm trying to figure out a way to justify using Copplestone's Gangsters and Back of Beyond together…"

Which country do you want the "Back of Beyond" scenario to take place in? The most obvious way to use civilians is as spies. They can also be gun runners or smugglers. If you don't mind painting your gangsters in white you can put them in any tropical country and they will look perfect. Newspaper reporters can be anywhere, like Jimmy Stewart in "Malaya". Or consider a "Rick Blaine" type character as in "Casablanca". "Harry Lime" was wearing civilian clothing in "The Third Man". That would work too.

If you don't mind painting your gangsters in white you can put them in any tropical country and they will look perfect.

To my shame, I never thought of that.

I'm thinking Cairo, or perhaps Jerusalem. Beirut, maybe?

Hm. Perhaps Pretoria, or Johannesburg, something to do with diamonds…

Having looked at the pictures can anyone tell what the weapons are?

One in the first pack looks to be a Carbine while the others are AKs or I suppose STG44, hard to tell with black on black but you can sort of see a curved magazine. I only looked again this morning, so be careful those pulp gamers

Bede you are right

Yiddish Language, chief vernacular of Ashkenazic Jews, who are native to, or who have antecedents in, eastern and central Europe. One of the Germanic languages, Yiddish is written in Hebrew characters (some of them used differently than for writing Hebrew). Yiddish (meaning "Jewish") arose between the 9th and 12th centuries in southwestern Germany as an adaptation of Middle High German dialects to the special needs of Jews

I apologise if I caused offence

Local slang in Amsterdam has a lot of Yiddish or derivate words.

Love the figs, I wonder who sculpted them.

Very usefull for central asian and ukrainian jewish communities.
If it wasn't for the modern weapons very usefull for pulp/BoB…

Unusual subject but great for Pulp/Back of Beyond. I think it would be fairly easy to convert the figs with handguns (pack 02) to earlier weapons by doing some hand/weapon swaps with, for example, some cowboy figures, thus representing a Webley type pistol. Just a thought.

Polynikes

LOL!!!!!

Spurs traditionally draws much of its support from the North London Jewish community, Larry. They even call themselves "The Yiddos" and the "Yid Army."

Being steeped in British football as you are, you probably already know that, though.

I had one altercation with them during my days as a young yobbo. They ran.

Well your the expert Polynikes. Did not know about the nickname….LOL!!!!

I learn something everyday

Back when I was reading the Gangs of New York my wife googled up a gun fight on St. Marks Place in 1910 or so. It was at a dance hall that later became the Electric Circus disco of the 60's. An Italian gang rented the hall for a party, a deliberate provocation since the block was a Jewish gang's turf.

The Jewish gang lined the street opposite the dance hall, armed with pistols and colorful nick-names. A gun-fight ensued. In the best traditions of New York City gangs (continued to this day), none of the gansters were hit though an innocent bystander was killed.

The Jewish gang were not Hasidim.

Last I saw, the Electric Circus building was being turned into a boutique hotel. A far cry from the early German roots of its beginnings and the Andy Warhol days of the 1960's. There were a few crap "clothing" stores in there too.

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>Back when I was reading the Gangs of New York my wife >googled up a gun fight on St. Marks Place in 1910 or so.

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>A gun-fight ensued. In the best traditions of New York >City gangs (continued to this day)

It's true. The Lower East Side has always been a gang fighting area. My father and two uncles were in teen-aged street gangs and so was I. The mix of Irish, Polish, Puerto Rican boys in the neighborhood around Thompkins Square Park was always a cause of friction. The Italian and Jewish boys were mostly further downtown in the late '50's and early 60's. It's a good thing that both Bellevue and St. Vincents hospitals were both within ambulance distance. (-:

The St. Marks theater on 1st avenue around the corner from the dance hall that you're talking about was one of the best "scratch Houses" around. I can remember seeing "The Wild One", "Gunga Din", and many other classics on their re-release run in that little flea joint. I also saw "The Bowery Boys Meet The Monsters" and other "B" movies on their 1st run. I think it cost about a quarter to get in. No candy counter. Just a popcorn machine in the back. It later became an off-Broadway theater. The Loews "Commodore" was a few block further down on 2nd Avenue. That movie theater later became the "Fillmore East". Great neighborhood…if you didn't get your head busted. (-:

I might use these figs for some post-war East End of London fighting:

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Interesting concept Killer Bob

The Shadow:

It's nice to see another LESider here. We lived on 12th & B but moved to Grand Street last year. Have you heard that 2nd Ave Deli closed?

"It's nice to see another LESider here. We lived on 12th & B but moved to Grand Street last year. Have you heard that 2nd Ave Deli closed?"

So many New York City landmarks have closed or changed since the late 60's that it doesn't surprise me. The Academy of Music theater, Gimbles department store, the Loews Delancy, Klein's department store, the Madison Square Boys Club, the old Penn Station where I worked unloading trucks after school, the old Madison Square Garden where I saw the Gene Autrey Rodeo, the Jefferson Theater where I saw "Zacherley" in person, all of those "scratch houses" along 42nd st., Hudson's Army Navy store, Metropolitan Vocational where I went to high school, Women's Infirmary where I was born, Ebbets Field, the Polo Grounds, and at least a half dozen other movie theaters between 14th and Delancey st. are all gone now. I don't like to go to 14th st. anymore. The new buildings along that street are so high and close that it makes me feel claustrophobic. I've often wondered if Julian's Pool Hall, where I spent a good part of my misspent youth, had yet closed. Willie Mosconi (he did the close up trick shots in "The Hustler") and Minnesotta Fats used to play there. I hear that Katz Deli is still open though. My buddies and I always stopped there for a "dog" after shooting pool at "Manny's" near Seward Park High School. Does it sound like I spent too much time in pool halls as a kid? Yeah…my teachers and my mother thought so too. (-:

Katz's will never close, I think, nor will Russ & Daughters. I believe they own their buildings. They also cost a fortune.

There's still a few pool halls in the neighborhood.

I avoid 14th street & Broadway as much as possible. It's a zoo and I'm a fast walker.

The local slang of Manchester (Amazons home) has quite a few Yiddish words mixed in…

Nish (nothing), Nosh (food), Kecks (pants) all have Yiddish roots I believe (or so it says in the Urbis Museum in Manchester).

Just a few miles away from Amazon is one second largest Jewish area in the UK.

I you ever visit I recommend The Deli King on Kings Road in Prestwich. A Deli King Salt Beef on Rye sandwich as a Sunday hangover cure is a real treat.

Mine came today in the post, nice sculpts will mix well with Brigade, Copplestone and Eureka stuff.

Looking at them I think they could have been sculpted by Martin Baker.

The weapons are indeed AKs and some drum fed Lmgs too