Gangsters and 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.
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Gangsters and 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.
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Gangsters and Organized Crime in Jewish Chicago

Gangsters and Organized Crime in Jewish Chicago

by Alex Garel-Frantzen
Gangsters and Organized Crime in Jewish Chicago

Gangsters and Organized Crime in Jewish Chicago

by Alex Garel-Frantzen

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781626191938
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 11/19/2013
Series: True Crime
Pages: 160
Sales rank: 617,583
Product dimensions: 8.90(w) x 5.90(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

A resident of Buffalo Grove, a Chicago suburb, Alex graduated from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where he was awarded the Department of History Scholarship for Outstanding Senior Honors Thesis and the Martha Belle Barrett Scholarship for Undergraduate Academic Excellence.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 9

Introduction 11

1 The Formation of the Chicago Jewish Community: 1838-1900 17

2 Ethnic Relations, Boys' Gangs and Community Concern: 1900-1925 31

3 "How to Make a Gangster": From Juvenile Delinquent to Organized Criminal in the Chicago Underworld 51

4 "Protect the Girl!": White Slavery, Prostitution and the Chicago Jewry, 1900-1920 61

5 Poolrooms, Flashlights and Guns: Jews in Gambling, 1890-1920 79

6 The Fly-by-Night Jews: Bootleggers and Racketeers, 1915-1935 95

Conclusion 117

Notes 123

Bibliography 143

Index 151

About the Author 155

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