The Books of Rachel — Joel Gross

FOR FIVE HUNDRED YEARS THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A RACHEL...

For after each Rachel's death, the first daughter born to the family is given the name of Rachel and a heritage of faith and courage as precious as the family diamond...


FOR FIVE HUNDRED YEARS THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE CUHENO DIAMOND...

A legendary 60-carat gem so flawless in its beauty, so perilous to possess, as dazzling as the Rachels who claimed it as their immortal legacy...

This is the story of those Rachels - a saga sweeping from the torture chambers of the Spanish Inquisition to the infamous pleasure palaces of Venice...from the elegant salons of eighteenth-century Germany to the horrors of the Holocaust...from the mighty drama of the birth of a Jewish homeland in Israel to the hopes and hardships in America....