The narrator says of this character that "it never occurred to me that one man could...play with the faith of fifty million people".
He is first introduced to the narrator when the title character takes him to lunch at a restaurant near Blackwell's Island (**). The narrator says of this character that "it never occurred to me that one man could...play with the faith of fifty million people". Similarities to his real-life (*) counterpart are evident in his apparent involvement in the criminal underworld of the 1920s. He also possesses a set of cufflinks that are made of the "finest specimens of human molars."  Inspired by Arnold Rothstein, this is, for ten points, what "small, flatnosed Jew", a character in The Great Gatsby who fixed the 1919 World Series?
He is first introduced to the narrator when the title character takes him to lunch at a restaurant near Blackwell's Island (**).
Meyer Wolfsheim (Accept either underlined answer)