Mar

21 2021

Author & Book Discussion: The Kosher Capones

5:00PM - 6:30PM  

Congregation Beth Israel 701 Farmington Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06119

Contact Rabbi Howard Rosenbaum
8602338215
hrosenbaum@cbict.org
http://cbict.org

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." With an eye for the dramatic, The Kosher Capones takes us deep inside a hidden society and offers glimpses of the men who ran the Jewish criminal community in Chicago for more than 60 years.