These poems and pictures present Jerusalem from a Jewish viewpoint…. The touch is delicate and wide ranging…. Throughout the poems there is an awareness of what cannot be reproduced by poems or pictures, the sounds of music, secular and religious, ancient and modern, foreign and Jewish, which combine to fill even the empty streets of Jerusalem with echoes. Against this music… the daily life of the city and its Jewish Quarter takes its eternal place.
In such a context, in such a vision of Jerusalem, even the screech of a swift can sound for a moment like an angel's song…. And who can say it isn't?
— Richard Sherwin
Associate Proffessor of Poetry, Bar-Ilan University