The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters Audiobook (Free)

The Kosher Capones tells the fascinating story of Chicago’s Jewish gangsters from Prohibition in to the 1980s. Author Joe Kraus traces these gangsters through the lives, legal careers, and issues of Benjamin “Zukie the Bookie” Zuckerman, last of the impartial West Aspect Jewish bosses, and Lenny Patrick, eventual mind from the Syndicate’s “Jewish wing.”

Both of these men linked the first Jewish gangsters of the neighborhoods of Maxwell Street and Lawndale towards the notorious Chicago Outfit that about The Kosher Capones: A History of Chicago’s Jewish Gangsters emerged from Al Capone’s legal confederation. Focusing on the murder of Zuckerman by Patrick, Kraus presents us to the various models of structured crime they displayed, a raft of largely neglected Jewish gangsters, and the changing nature of Chicago’s political problem. Hard-to-believe anecdotes of corrupt politicians, seasoned killers, and in-over-their-heads legal operators limelight the magnitude and need for Jewish gangsters to the story of Windy City mob rule.

With an eye for the dramatic, The Kosher Capones takes us deep inside a hidden society and will be offering glimpses of the men who went the Jewish criminal community in Chicago for more than sixty years.