Gangsters and organized crime in Jewish Chicago
By: Alex Garel-Frantzen
Series: True crime
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9781626191938
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Jewish criminals; History; Gangsters; Biography; Jews; Social conditions; Organized crime; Ethnic relations; TRUE CRIME / Organized Crime; HISTORY / Jewish
Description: "Al Capone. The Untouchables. The Valentine's Day massacre. You may think you know everything about the Roaring Twenties in the Windy City, but in the early twentieth century, the harsh environment of the Maxwell Street ghetto produced a proliferation of Jewish gangsters involved in everything from labor racketeering to white slavery. Their illegal activity offended their own community's value system and sparked rifts between Reform and Orthodox Jews. It also ignited tensions between city officials and Jewish leaders, indelibly marked the gentile population's perception of Chicago's Jews and shaped the city's West Side for years to come"--

"Gives a history of organized crime in Chicago's Jewish community"--