Our Gang

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Our Gang provides a fascinating historical portrait of the Jewishcriminal world from the era of mass immigration through Prohibition and beyond.Jenna Weissman Joselit traces the origins, nature, patterns, location, and impact ofJewish crime from the early years, when it was inextricably bound up with the EastSide community as a whole, with criminals living among the more or less law-abidingcitizens they preyed upon, to the post-World War I period and the gradualassimilation and absorption of Jewish crime into the mainstream of the Americanunderworld. Parallel with this theme is a broader one: the NewYork Jewish community's reaction to Jewish crime, evolving from disbelief to denialto concern and the establishment of a network of correctional and preventiveagencies, and finally -- as the nature of Jewish crime changed, and as the communityitself felt a growing sense of security -- a sort of acceptance.