The Life and Times of Kraskus

Kraskus led a life dominated more by the discontent of his people than Aristotel's physics. He held from Barcelona, where he rose as a scholar at the city's Yeshiva. As a high-ranking Jewish leader, Kraskus worked to find safe havens for his co-religionists. His calamity was a foretaste of what would come almost exactly a century later with the total expulsion of Jews from Spain.