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Sequestered within the heart of a cosmopolitan city is an exotic world-a place where diamonds, astronomically priced, are bought and sold on the strength of a handshake, and business disputes are resolved according to ancient Jewish principles of arbitration. Yet it is also a modern industry facing...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shield, Renée Rose
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2002.
Series:Anthropology of contemporary issues.
Subjects:
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Diamond industry and trade > New York (State) > New York > History.
Jews in the diamond industry > New York (State) > New York > History.
Jewish businesspeople > New York (State) > New York > History.
Diamants > Industrie > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
Juifs dans l'industrie du diamant > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
Gens d'affaires juifs > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Diamond industry and trade
Jewish businesspeople
Jews in the diamond industry
Diamantenindustrie
Geschichte
Juden
Diamants > Industrie et commerce > New York (États-Unis ; État) > New York (N.Y.)
Juifs > États-Unis.
Hommes d'affaires juifs.
New York (State) > New York
New York > Staat
New York, NY
Juden.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Diamonds, Jews, and the world
  • Being there
  • New York, Diamond Center
  • Million dollar handshakes
  • With loupe and Internet
  • Diamonds, families, and time
  • The courtly system of arbitration.

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