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Sequestered within the heart of a cosmopolitan city is an exotic worlda 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 the same fundamental global changes affecting all businesses today.In Diamond Stories, Renée Rose Shield leads us into the unexamined realm of wholesale diamond traders in New York. Related to several well-respected traders, she had unprecedented access to a society normally closed to outside inquiry. Here she deftly blends her personal relationship and her anthropological training to provide an insightful exploration of this tradition-bound industry, the new challenges it faces, and the ways both industry and individuals adapt to and endure change.Shield begins with a fascinating history of diamond mining, combining the story of the De Beers cartel, the role of Jews in the trade, and the part diamonds have played both in war and liberation. Throughout, she incorporates commentary by current diamond traders. Succeeding chapters explore the evolving nature of both the global trade and the New York diamond district. Shield takes a close look at the increasingly complex ethnic makeup of the district, illuminates the rarely documented work done by women, chronicles the resilient system of arbitration, and reveals the ways in which many traders work well into their eighties and nineties. Their long lives of work, cushioned by the trade's social environment, offer hints for successful aging in general.

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Shield has done an excellent job revealing the hidden world of the diamond trade.... Anyone interested in a behind-the-scenes look at the diamond world will find themselves satisfied.

- Rabbi Rachel Esserman (The Reporter) Diamond Stories is the best view of the cloistered world of New York's Jewish diamond community that anyone has ever set down in print. The author captures the trading environment, the negotiation rituals, and the sardonic wit and 'folklore' with a sympathetic insider's view and without the stereotypes and clichés to which others have fallen prey. Throughout the book, she relates how diamond dealers admonished her to 'get the tone right.' That she has done very well.

- Russell Shor, Gemological Institute of America (Gems and Gemology) Markets... dominate the global economy. In fact, much of the recent Internet Revolution was built on the notion of creating new markets... where everything from steel to freelance services could be traded. Then there's the diamond market, a complex yet loosely structured system that's part souk, part multibillion-dollar global exchange. This curious blend is what makes Diamond Stories such an engrossing read.... While Shield is an anthropologist by training, Diamond Stories is more a well-told tale than a scholarly book.

- Robert Rosenberg (Business Week) New York's diamond business is an insular world. Yet thanks to introductions from relatives in the business, anthropologist Shield gained access to the industry's inner sanctum: West 47th Street in Manhattan.... This modest, accessible if somewhat academic volume... covers a lot of ground.... The book offers a window into an enigmatic sector of society that, as Shield ably portrays, balances on the cusp between the traditional and the modern.

(Publishers Weekly) Renée interviewed diamond dealers, brokers, and manufacturers (the majority of them Orthodox or Hasidic Jews), and then merged her findings with anthropological observations.

- Toby Rossner (East Side Marketplace) Thanking Uncles Moishe and Shmiel is more than a scholar's nod to family forbearance in Diamond Stories. For Renee Rose Shield... her uncles were her ethnographic entree. Their good names and many decades in New York's diamond trade gave her access to the inner sancta of the midtown industry.

- Nina C. Ayoub (Chronicle of Higher Education)

Preface ix
1. Introduction 1(8)
2. Diamonds, Jews, and the World 9(34)
3. Being There 43(35)
4. New York, Diamond Center 78(9)
5. Million Dollar Handshakes 87(37)
6. With Loupe and Internet 124(19)
7. Diamonds, Families, and Time 143(42)
8. The Courtly System of Arbitration 185(24)
9. Conclusion 209(8)
Bibliography 217(12)
Index 229
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.
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