books.google.co.uk - Tracing the dramatic lives, through 500 years, of the old and distinguished Sephardic Jewish family from whom he is descended, Victor Perera brilliantly re-creates the history not only of his own people but of an entire culture. The story he tells begins in Spain in the fifteenth century, when the Sephardim...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Cross_and_the_Pear_Tree.html?id=VdTqRyq15dAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Cross and the Pear Tree