After they were re-Christianized, the traditionalists "went underground". That's the origins of your Mob.
They don't even know why they do this stuff anymore.
One of my old secretaries grew up in a Mob controlled neighborhood in Brooklyn. She dated a cappo. Finally, she broke up with him (when several of her cousins and uncles went to prison) and decided to cut other ties to the Mob.
Then she married a Jewish guy. She went to work for us while she was still in hiding and figured that a building full of cops was a good place for someone in her position to work.
Finally, she had a baby. The day the baby was born, a formal family peace was declared and she was able to get on with her life and not have to hide from her relatives.
In Italia or Sicilia I'm guessing that a marriage to a Jewish guy would have been considered illegitimate, but in America, once the baby arrived, it was OK.
This relative modernity on the part of the American Mob is probably result of the pioneering work done in Jewish/Mob relations by such luminaries as Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano.
Do you have a source for that? Wikipedia says it grew up in the 1800s.
Dennis Hopper plays a part in a movie (title I've forgotten)
A cop trying to protect his only son..who he did not raise due to a divorce...
The son had ripped off some wise guys and they torture Hopper
to find his kid and their money...
During the torture scene Hopper reminds the wise guys of their
Moorish heritage...something they did not want to hear at the time...
Maybe that reason why Mob went reform on that
I never hear this before
I know they beat their women aka Godfather 2