The Story of Max Hochstim: The Jewish Immigrant Who Lied, Cheated, and Stole His Way to the Top
By Alice Sparberg Alexiou
July 19, 2018Last summer, on a Sunday afternoon, I schlepped out to Washington Cemetery in a very ungentrified stretch of Brooklyn. Some 200,000 graves—almost all of them Jewish—occupy the 100 acres of this marvelously shabby necropolis along Bay Parkway. I was looking for the grave of Max Hochstim, a vicious Jewish racketeer who, during his heyday 100-plus…
