Alex Garel-Frantzen

Gangsters and Organized Crime in Jewish Chicago (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781625846617
• Artikelnr.: 40092351

Autorenporträt

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.