Margalit Fox is a New York Times journalist originally trained as a linguist. She is the author of Talking Hands.
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America’s first great organized-crime lord was a lady—a nice Jewish mother named Mrs. Mandelbaum. “A tour de force . . . With a pickpocket’s finesse, Margalit Fox lures us into the criminal underworld of Gilded Age New York.&rdq... SEE MORE