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Lucianos positive feelings about the worth of nonSicilians stemmed from his childhood. Born Salvatore Lucania outside of Palermo, Sicily, Luciano came to New York City as a boy. He started his first racket when he was still in elementary school. For a penny or two a day, Carl Sifakis writes in The Mafia Encyclopedia, Luciano offered younger and smaller Jewish kids his personal protection against beatings on the way to school; if they didnt pay, he beat them up. But one scrawny, little Jewish boy from Poland defied him, and when Luciano tried to carry out his threat of violence, the kid put up a fight and showed that he was a lot tougher than he looked. Luciano was impressed. He asked the boy what his name was. Maier Suchowljansky, the boy said. Years later he would shorten his name to Meyer Lansky, and he and Luciano would form a partnership that would revolutionize crime in America.

 

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