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Bidding Information
Lot #    19116
Auction End Date    10/9/2007 12:10:30 PM (mm/dd/yyyy)
          
Title Information
Title (English)    The Jews and Moors in Spain
Author    [Only Ed.] R. Joseph Krauskopf
City    Kansas City
Publisher    M. Berkowitz
Publication Date    1887
          
Collection Information
Independent Item    This listing is an independent item not part of any collection
          
Description Information
Physical
Description		    Only edition. 12mo. XXI, 246 pp., 194:128 mm., decorative endpapers, age and damp stained. A good copy bound in contemporary cloth boards, rubbed.
          
Detailed
Description		    The first Jewish book published in Kansas City (A single folded leaf, for a synagogue dedication, was printed in 1885) . Bibliographical annotations; index. From the Preface: "This volume is a reprint of newspaper reports of a series of lectures delivered by the author from the pulpit of Congregation B'nai Jehudah, Kansas City, Mo. , during the Fall and Winter of 1885-1886." Krauskopf was a leader of Reform Judaism in the United States, and first honorary secretary of the Jewish Publication Society of America. After his short term as rabbi in Kansas City, he became rabbi of the Reform Congregation Kenesseth Israel, Philadelphia, until his death in 1923.
          
Reference
Description		    EJ; Singerman 3564.
        
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Listing Classification
Period
19th Century:    Checked
  
Location
America-South America:    Checked
  
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Language:    English
  
Manuscript Type
  
Kind of Judaica