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

by Joe Kraus

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1501747312

ISBN13:9781501747311

Release Date:October 2019

Publisher:Northern Illinois University Press

Length:240 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"

Age Range:18 years and up

Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher

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