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Gangsters and Organized Crime in Jewish Chicago

by Alex Garel-Frantzen
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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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Series: True Crime Publisher: The History Press

Kindle Book

  • Release date: November 19, 2013

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  • ISBN: 9781625846617
  • Release date: November 19, 2013

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781625846617
  • File size: 2176 KB
  • Release date: November 19, 2013

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Kindle Book
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subjects

History True Crime Nonfiction

Languages

English

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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History True Crime Nonfiction
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