sentences:  This is the first known work by a Jewish writer describing the history of non-Jews.His second chronicle is an extract from his world chronicle of items concerning persecutions of the Jews.To this he added material from Samuel Usque's "Consolaçam as Tribulaçoens de Ysrael" (1557), the chronicle of Abraham ibn Daud as well as other material that had reached him, calling it "Emeq ha-Bakha" (The Vale of Tears).