Gangsters & Organized Crime in Jewish Chicago

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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Published: 11/19/2013
ISBN: 9781540222282
Pages: 162
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d