 | Diamond Stories: Enduring Change on 47th Street Subjects: 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; 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... Renée Rose Shield is Clinical Associate Professor of Community Health at Brown University. She is the author of Uneasy Endings: Daily Life in an American Nursing Home , also from Cornell, and coauthor of Aging in Today's World: Conversations between an Anthropologist and a Physician . |
