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.