Name: Joe Kraus - The Kosher Capones by Terry Shepherd
Duration: 22 min 38 s
Description: Joe Kraus details the history of Jewish gangsters before, during and after Prohibition in Chicago, their interaction with other criminal organizations and some of the colorful personalities who lived and died by violence during from the Roaring 20s into the modern era.

Joe Kraus details the history of Jewish gangsters before, during and after Prohibition in Chicago, their interaction with other criminal organizations and some of the colorful personalities who lived and died by violence during from the Roaring 20s into the modern era.

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Joe Kraus - The Kosher Capones

Barbara Meyer Link  is an award-winning California author and poet. She's the recipient of the Sacramento State University Bazzanella Prize for fiction. Her 2010 memoir, Blue Shy, won first prize in the Sacramento Friends of the Library First Chapter contest. She is also the co-author of  "Coffee and Ink", a handbook for writing groups. For fifteen years she shared her poetic gifts as a  teacher.

Her debut novel  is "Chokecherry Girl". Set amid the racial tensions of 1950s Montana, It's  the story of three women drawn together by a stolen car, an illicit love affair and a shooting.  New York Times bestselling author Les Standiford says, “The characters and the place are palpable, and Link’s laconic delivery is perfectly suited for the proceedings. Sweet work, indeed.”

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Joe Kraus - The Kosher Capones

Terry Shepherd

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