Hyman Abrams Explained

Hyman Abrams
Birth Date:	1 May 1901
Birth Place:	Vilnius, Russian Empire
Death Date:	January 1975 (aged 73)
Death Place:	Las Vegas, Nevada
Nationality:	American
Known For:	Mafia associate, Mafia financier
Education:	The Mather School^[1]
Spouse:	Harriet Janice Allison

Hyman Abrams (born Abramovitz; May 1, 1901 – January 1975)^[2] was an American businessman, Boston mobster, and high-ranking member under Charles "King" Solomon during Prohibition.

Biography

Abrams was born into a Jewish family^[3] in Vilnius, Russian Empire (now Lithuania),^[2] the son of Israel and Ethel "Etta" Dimenstein Abramovitz. They immigrated to Boston in 1906.^[4] He became a U.S. citizen in 1923, when he changed his surname to Abrams.^[2] He started out as a restaurateur in Boston.^[5] \ Abrams and other members of Solomon's organization took over Boston's criminal operations for themselves following Solomon's murder in 1933. He would later become involved in financing syndicate controlled casinos with Meyer Lansky, specifically the Flamingo and later the Sands with Carl Cohen and Jack Entratter. In 1957, he partnered with Moe Dalitz, Morris Kleinman, Sam Tucker, Wilbur Clark (of the Desert Inn and Lansky's Hotel Nacional casino), Ed Levinson (of the Fremont Hotel and Casino), Charles "Babe" Baron (who represented Sam Giancana), and Morris Rosen (of the Flamingo Hotel) to build the Hotel Habbana Riviera casino in Havana.^[6]

In 1968, Abrams married Harriet Janice Allison, a dancer in Las Vegas.^[7] They divorced in 1971.^[8] He died in January 1975 in Las Vegas.^[9]

Further reading

• Fried, Albert. The Rise and Fall of the Jewish Gangster in America. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980.
• Messick, Hank. Lansky. London: Robert Hale & Company, 1973.
• Reid, Ed and Demaris, Ovid. The Green Felt Jungle. Montreal: Pocket Books, 1964.
• Schwartz, Rosalie. Pleasure Island: Tourism and Temptation in Cuba. U of Nebraska Press, 1997.

References

• Fox, Stephen. Blood and Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth-Century America. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989.

External links

• • Mr. Mob: The Life and Crimes of Moe Dalitz - Google Books
• The business of crime: Italians and syndicate crime in the United States - Google Books
• The Jewish body - Google Books

Notes and References

1. Staff (June 19, 1913). "Boston Public School Graduates Number 9,789". The Boston Globe.
2. U.S., Naturalization Records Indexes, 1794–1995
3. Book: Marschall, John P.. 173. University of Nevada Press. February 1, 2008. 9780874177374. Most of the hotel builders were Jewish Americans: ...Hyman Abbrams, Carl Cohen, and Jack Entratter with the ownership and operations of the Sands.
4. 1910 United States Federal Census
5. Book: Moehring, Eugene P. . Resort City In The Sunbelt, Second Edition: Las Vegas, 1930-2000 . University of Nevada Press. May 1, 2000. 978-0874173567.
6. News: Norm . Clarke. Lansky Heirs at Odds . Las Vegas Review-Journal. April 3, 2016 .
7. News: Harriet Janice Abbrams (nee Allison), 80, passed away peacefully Aug. 25, 2014, at home in Las Vegas, surrounded by her loved ones. . . August 25, 2014 .
8. Nevada, U.S., Divorce Index, 1968–2015
9. U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935–2014