Our Gang: Jewish Crime and the New York Jewish Community, 1900-1940

by Jenna Weissman Joselit

Overview

Our Gang provides a fascinating historical portrait of the Jewish criminal world from the era of mass immigration through Prohibition and beyond. Jenna Weissman Joselit traces the origins, nature, patterns, location, and impact of Jewish crime from the early years, when it was inextricably bound up with the East Side community as a whole, with criminals living among the more or less law-abiding citizens they preyed upon, to the post-World War I period and the gradual assimilation and absorption of Jewish crime into the mainstream of the American underworld.

Parallel with this theme is a broader one: the New York Jewish community's reaction to Jewish crime, evolving from disbelief to denial to concern and the establishment of a network of correctional and preventive agencies, and finally—as the nature of Jewish crime changed, and as the community itself felt a growing sense of security—a sort of acceptance.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253203144
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	11/22/1983
Series:	The Modern Jewish Experience
Pages:	210
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.54(d)
Age Range:	18 Years