The Elusive Purple Gang: Detroits Kosher Nostra is a concise history of one of Americas most notorious Prohibition gangs. The Burnstein brothers and their associates were the only Jewish gang in the United States to dominate the rackets of a major American city. From their meteoric rise to the top of Detroits underworld to their ultimate demise, this is an episodic account of the Purple Gangs corrosive pursuit of power and wealth and their inevitable plunge towards self-destruction.