The Jerusalem Diamond
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Harry Hopeman miembro de una dinasta de diamantistas recibe un da una propuesta: recuperar un diamante legendario que ha despertado inters de gente muy dispar. El encargo que llevar a Harry a abandonar Nueva York para instalarse en Tierra Santa se convertir en un viaje casi inicitico en el que el tratante se reencontrar con sus races. La historia del diamante desde los tiempos bblicos hasta la actualidad sirve no slo de hilo conductor para narrar las vicisitudes de la familia Hopeman cuyos orgenes se remontan a los tiempos de la Inquisicin sino tamin para ofrecer una rica panormica del judasmo y su intensa relacin con las culturas musulmana y cristiana a lo largo de los siglos. / Harry Hopeman a member of a dynasty of diamonds one day receives a proposal: retrieve a legendary diamond that has aroused the interest of very disparate people. The commission which will take Harry to leave New York to settle in the Holy Land will become an almost initiatory journey in which the trafficker was reunited with her roots. The history of the diamond from Biblical times until today serves not only common thread to tell the vicissitudes of Hopeman family whose origins date back to the times of the Inquisition but tamin to offer a rich panorama of Judaism and its intense relationship with the Muslim and Christian cultures over the centuries.
