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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9483588, member: 2844&quot;]In those days most legit diamond trade in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London was in Jewish hands. In those centres the traders were Ashkenazim, not Sephardim. The Asschers are also Ashkenazim.</p><p>Our Dutch Sephardim are mostly academics, and what is termed as professionals, not traders. (Our Sephardim are too posh to trade.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie75" alt=":playful:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p><br /></p><p>Thieves can have any background. Their only common denominator is a lack of conscience, or in some cases extreme poverty.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/frown.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":(" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Someone whose children are starving wouldn&#039;t steal diamonds though. So the diamond thief was likely from the lack of conscience category.</p><p><br /></p><p>Whether or not the thief spoke Ladino is not relevant to the London diamond trade.</p><p>Speaking Yiddish could help, but a German-speaker could understand a lot of Yiddish anyway, and could pick up the non-German words pretty fast.</p><p>Presumably London diamond traders who originated from the Austro-Hungarian empire could speak both English and German, as well as Yiddish.</p><p><br /></p><p>Hebrew used to be a language for the synagogue and theological teaching and discourse, not for trade.</p><p><br /></p><p>Having lived in Australia, I wonder who he was. Could you tell us?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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