Claus Bernet

Jerusalem - the city of peace, of hopes, of dreams. This city has fascinated Jews, Christians and Muslims for millennia. Through images and texts, this premium art book celebrates the city of Jerusalem and reminds us that the three monotheistic world religions share a common legacy: a peaceful Jerusalem. "Pearls of New Jerusalem" brings together text and images from the past two thousand years, as Nachmanides, Abu Bakr al-Wasiti, Ibn al-Murajja, Augustine, Hildegard von Bingen, Luther, Shakespeare, Goethe, Emanuel von Swedenborg, Theodor Herzl, Selma Lagerlöf, Ernst Bloch, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Yitzhak Rabin, Umberto Eco, as well as Karl Marx and King Hussein I of Jordan.