Title: Hey, Jewboy!
Description: Mostly set in the Jewish-American community around Maxwell Street in the 1920s and 1930s, this coming-of-age story is about Sam, orphaned at the age of eleven, whose struggle to survive leads him down a criminal path.  The book has much of the flavor of a first-hand account of life on the streets of Chicago prior to WWII.
Subjects: Chicago, 1930s, 1920s, Jewish, crime
Places: Maxwell Street, Chicago
Time periods: 1920s-1930s