Gangsters and Organized Crime in Jewish Chicago

Gangsters and Organized Crime in Jewish Chicago
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 9781625846617
ISBN-13 : 1625846614
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Book Synopsis Gangsters and Organized Crime in Jewish Chicago by : Alex Garel-Frantzen

Download or read book Gangsters and Organized Crime in Jewish Chicago written by Alex Garel-Frantzen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-19 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


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