The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago's Jewish Gangsters

by Joe Kraus

Book Overview

The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago's Jewish gangsters from Prohibition into the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, criminal careers, and conflicts of Benjamin Zuckie the Bookie Zuckerman, last of the independent West Side Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual head of the Syndicate's Jewish wing.

These two men linked the early Jewish gangsters of the neighborhoods of Maxwell...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501747312
• ISBN13: 9781501747311
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher