 Alami was an eye-witness of the persecutions of the Jews of Catalonia, Castile, and Aragon in 1391.Alami considers these and other severe trials inflicted upon the Spanish Jews as the effect of, and a punishment for, the moral and religious decadence into which his co-religionists had fallen; and he holds before his brethren a mirror of the moral degeneration extending through all circles of Jewish society.He says in his book