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Net mesta bolee svi͡ashchennogo, chem Ierusalim - 'likui͡ushchiĭ voplʹ tysi͡ach i tysi͡ach glotok', 'neistovyĭ zhar molitv, zhalob i kli͡atv', 'tugai͡a kotomka' zapakhov: ladana - khristianskogo kvartala, ryby - musulʹmanskogo, svezhestirannogo belʹi͡a - evreĭskogo, khlebnogo - armi͡anskogo. Zhitʹ v ėtom gorode neprosto, potomu chto on, po slovam Diny Rubinoĭ, - 'vershina tragedii'. No chto bylo by v zhizni pisateli͡a, esli by v neĭ ne sluchilsi͡a Ierusalim? V kont͡se 1990-kh Dina Rubina vmeste s semʹeĭ pereezzhaet v Izrailʹ. I s ėtogo momenta v zhizni pisateli͡a okazyvai͡utsi͡a dve rodiny: odna - po pravu krovi, vtorai͡a - po pravu i͡azyka. O trudnosti͡akh i radosti͡akh srastanii͡a s novoĭ zemleĭ, o neveroi͡atnykh peripetii͡akh sudʹby svoikh novykh sootechestvennikov, o genii mesta Ierusalima - povesti, rasskazy i ėsse dannoĭ knigi.

There is no place more sacred than Jerusalem – 'the exultant cry of thousands and thousands of throats', 'the frenzied heat of prayers, complaints and oaths', 'a tight bundle' of smells: incense – Christian quarter, fish – Muslim, freshly laundered linen – Jewish, bread – Armenian. It is not easy to live in this city, because, according to Dina Rubina, it is the "peak of tragedy". But what would have happened in the writer's life if Jerusalem had not happened in it? In the late 1990s, Dina Rubina moved to Israel with her family. And from that moment on, two homelands appear in the writer's life: one-by the right of blood, the second-by the right of language. About the difficulties and joys of growing together with the new land, about the incredible twists and turns of the fate of their new compatriots, about the genius of the place of Jerusalem – the stories, stories and essays of this book.