Jeffrey Zwi Epstein Migdal
Gilad Atzmon, Aug 29 2019
The story of Jeffrey Epstein has lost its mystery as more and more commentators allow themselves to express the thought that it is a strong possibility that Epstein was connected to a crime syndicate affiliated with a Zionist political organisation or Israel and/or at least a few compromised intelligence agencies. Whitney Web and others have produced superb studies of possible scenarios, I would instead like to attack the topic from a cultural perspective. Epstein wasn’t the first Jewish sex trafficker. This seems like a good time to look back at Zwi Migdal, a Jewish global crime syndicate that operated a century ago and trafficked tens of thousands of Jewish women and under-age girls as sex slaves. According to contemporary Jewish writer Giulia Morpurgo, the Zwi Migdal had turned Argentina “into a nightmare of prostitution and exploitation.” During the first three decades of the 20th century, Argentina was a rich country. It outgrew Canada and Australia in population, total income and per capita income. Just before WW1, Argentina was the world’s tenth wealthiest state per capita. When Argentina was a rich country, large parts of its economy, culture and politics were controlled by crime syndicates and particularly a Jewish organised crime apparatus named ‘Zwi Migdal.’ In 2009 The International Jewish Coalition Against Child Abuse (JCACA) published a comprehensive article about the Zwi Migdal titled Understanding the Zwi Migdal Society, which I am about to quote from extensively.
The Zwi Migdal, was an association of Jewish mobsters who were involved in the “sexual exploitation of Jewish women and children, which operated globally.” Apparently the Zwi Migdal originally picked a pretty innocent sounding name: “Warsaw Jewish Mutual Aid Society.” It does indeed sound almost as innocent, humane and charitable as ‘Anti Defamation League,’ ‘Jews against Breast Cancer,’ or even ‘Jewish Voice for Peace,’ but the Warsaw Jewish Mutual Aid Society wasn’t innocent at all. It forced thousands of women and girls to become sex slaves and destroyed their lives. On May 7 1906 the Jewish syndicate had to change its title, after the Polish ambassador to Argentina filed an official complaint to the Argentine authorities regarding the use of the name ‘Warsaw.’ Clearly, the Polish government did not want to be associated with a Jewish crime syndicate.
Zwi Migdal means ‘strong power’ in Yiddish and it also honoured Zvi Migdal, known as Luis Migdal, one of the founders of the crime organization.
The Zwi Migdal organization operated from the 1860s to 1939. In its heyday, after WW1, it had four hundred members in Argentina alone. Its turnover was $50m/yr in the early 1900s. Unlike Epstein and Maxwell who allegedly recruited non-Jewish underage non-Jewish women, the Zwi Migdal specialised in trafficking Jewish women.
Most of the Jewish women and children who were kidnapped were taken from impoverished shtetls and brought to Buenos Aires.
The recently released documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein affair suggest that Epstein and Maxwell were to be charged with child sex trafficking, and as the alleged procurer of underage girls. It seems none of that is really novel in the Jewish world:
The Zwi Migdal Society lured decent girls and young women from Europe in many inventive and deceitful ways. A very well-mannered and elegant-looking man would appear in a poor Jewish village in places such as Poland or Russia. He would advertise his search for young women to work in the homes of wealthy Jews in Argentina by posting an ad in the local synagogue. Fearful of pogroms and often in desperate economic circumstances, the trusting parents would send their naïve daughters away with these men, hoping to give them a fresh start.
The last line recalls Virginia Giuffre’s account of her encounter with the elegant British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who allegedly lured her victims to ‘escape’ their misery. The JCACA continues:
The girls, aged mostly 13 to 16, packed a small bag, bade their families farewell and boarded ships to Argentina, believing that they were on their way toward a better future. However, they soon learned the bitter truth. Their period of training as sex slaves, which began on the ship, was cruel and brutal. The young virgins were broken in: raped, beaten, starved and locked in cages. The largest brothels of Buenos Aires housed 60 to 80 female sex slaves. There were brothels all over Argentina, but most of them were in the big city, in the Jewish quarter, on Junin Street. Prostitutes who failed to satisfy their clients were beaten, fined, or taken to work in provincial houses. Every business transaction was logged. The rufianos ‘held a meat market’ where newly arrived girls were paraded naked in front of traders in places such as Hotel Palestina or Cafe Parisienne.
The Zwi Migdal Organization reached its peak in the 1920s when some 430 rufianos, or pimps, controlled 2,000 brothels trafficking around 30.000 Jewish women and girls in Argentina alone. One may wonder how all of that fit with Judaic tradition and Talmudic law.
In one brothel, the Madam, an observant Jewish woman, would not let her women work on Fridays but instructed them herself in the art of lovemaking.
Many commentators on the Epstein affair are amazed by the incapacity of Pindo law enforcement, the legal system and the federal agencies to bring justice to Epstein’s victims and its failure to lock him away. Once again, that is not new. The JCACA writes of the Zwi Migdal criminality:
These activities went on undisturbed because they were frequented by government officials, judges, and reporters. City officials, politicians, and police officers were paid off. The pimps had powerful connections everywhere.
The Jewish community didn’t rush to save their abused daughters.
The prostitutes, who were mostly illiterate, destitute and despised by the mainstream Jewish community, banded together to form their own mutual-aid societies.
However, rarely, some Jewish ethnic activists stood up for the abused women and girls.
One night Nahum Sorkin, a well-known Zionist activist, stood outside the theatre and physically stopped the rufianos (Jewish pimps) from entering. Next, they were banned from the synagogues, and to top it all, they were refused burial in the Jewish cemetery.
We learn that the rufianos’ audacity eventually led to their demise.
It happened when they refused to forgo their income from the work of one woman, Raquel Lieberman from Lódž, Poland. She, like so many others, was tempted to travel to Buenos Aires answering a matrimonial ad, but was taken to Jonin Street where she was forced to prostitute. After five years she had enough money to go into the antique furniture business to support herself and her sons but the rufianos made it impossible for her. They did not want her to set an example for their other slaves. But this woman had not been broken.
As was the case for Virginia Giuffre, it needed brave Raquel to come forward.
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