Yeah, we haven't seen Bugsy Siegel yet, though a very young Al Capone is a supporting character. Last night's episode contained a sequence in which Capone's boss, Chicago gangster Johnny Torrio, takes him to a local beer baron's son's bar mitzvah, so there's at least one example of somebody remaining religious yet dealing dirty with the goyim. Rothstein's bunch in New York seem to be pretty Americanized and/or areligious, though, aside from one of them swearing at Agent Van Alden in Yiddish.
(I don't know what happens when they marry, either, since none of them seem to be. Capone has a wife--an Irish girl--and a son, who's deaf; Rothstein seems married to his work. The other young dudes are all mainly running around with hookers, though Lucky Luciano also has a fairly hot affair with Jimmy Darmody's showgirl mother, Gillian.)
That's really interesting about your Florida cousins. I can see how later generations might have been: "No no, that was just something the older people did, so we'll deny it if asked", but then again, I think it'd be really hard to separated fact from fiction at that far a geographical divide.
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(I don't know what happens when they marry, either, since none of them seem to be. Capone has a wife--an Irish girl--and a son, who's deaf; Rothstein seems married to his work. The other young dudes are all mainly running around with hookers, though Lucky Luciano also has a fairly hot affair with Jimmy Darmody's showgirl mother, Gillian.)
That's really interesting about your Florida cousins. I can see how later generations might have been: "No no, that was just something the older people did, so we'll deny it if asked", but then again, I think it'd be really hard to separated fact from fiction at that far a geographical divide.