Transcriber's Notes:
Blank pages have been eliminated.
Variations in spelling and hyphenation have been left as in theoriginal.
A few typographical errors have been corrected.
The cover page was created by the transcriber and can be considered public domain.
THEJEWS AND MOORS IN SPAIN.
BY
RABBI JOS. KRAUSKOPF.
KANSAS CITY:
M. Berkowitz & Co., Publishers and Printers.
1887.
Copyright, 1886,
By Joseph Krauskopf.
All Rights Reserved.
TO
The Members of Congregation
B'NAI JEHUDAH
OF
Kansas City, Missouri,
In Deep Appreciation of their Kindnessand Encouragement This Volume Is Respectfully Dedicated.
PREFACE.
This volume is a reprint of newspaper reportsof a series of lectures delivered by the author fromthe pulpit of Congregation B'nai Jehudah, KansasCity, Mo., during the Fall and Winter of1885-1886.
The lectures were prepared to fulfill the requirementsof popular discourses, and designed toconvey information upon a highly important epochof the world's history, that is almost neglectedin English literature.
The thought of publishing these lectures inbook form was utterly foreign to the author throughouttheir preparation, until an urgent solicitationfrom very many persons, both Jews and Gentiles,in all parts of this country, whose interest inthese lectures was aroused by their wide-spreadrepublication by the Press, made it a duty.
Kansas City, Mo., January, 1887.
The following are two of the many letters addressedto the author, requesting him to have hislectures on "The Jews and Moors in Spain" publishedin book form.
Letter from Hon. T. T. Crittenden,
Ex-Governor of the State of Missouri.
Kansas City, Mo., March 29, 1886.
Rabbi Joseph Krauskopf.
Dear Sir:—Having read with pleasure and edificationthe series of lectures delivered in the Synagogue, KansasCity, Mo., entitled "The Jews and Moors in Spain," in whichyou treat of the social, political, religious and intellectual lifeof these Oriental nations, may I inquire if it is your purposeto have them published in book form?
I think the lectures too valuable, too full of prolongedhistoric research and thought to live only one day in thecolumns of a daily newspaper. Even if they were designed"to adorn a tale or point a moral" of the great race towhich you belong, whose history commenced with Abrahamand will end with that of the human race, still the historyof that race was (and is) so intimately interlaced with thehistory of the other races for the intervening centuries, thatthe lectures are in part, so much the history of the otherraces, that they can be read and studied by all men withoutprejudice or animosity. One thi