This first-ever English translation of Esther Kreitman's novel Diamonds
was originally published in 1944 by W&G Foyle in London in Yiddish. Set
in Antwerp and London in the years around the time of the First World
War. Diamonds tells the story of the collapsing world of a rich diamond
merchant, Gedaliah Berman and his family: it covers their life in
Antwerp in the years leading up to the outbreak of war, their flight to
London with other Jewish refugees, their life in London for the duration
of the war, and the return to Antwerp of Gedaliah and his two sons after
the war.