The Kosher Capones by Joe Kraus HARDBACK 9781501747311

The Kosher Capones\nby Joe Kraus\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Joe Kraus\nTitle: The Kosher Capones\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Social and cultural history\nPublisher: Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781501747311\nISBN-10: 1501747312\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nThe 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.\nThese two men linked the early Jewish gangsters of the neighborhoods of Maxwell Street and Lawndale to the notorious Chicag.