A “mushka” is a traditional cap worn by the russian Jewesse women through South and Little Russia even as far as Galicia. It not only an expensive piece of jewelry but is also a mark of beauty that is past trought generations from mother to daughter. Worn something like a big tiara, the “mushka” represensts [...]
Jewish jewelry pieces have a particular significance. Jewish jewelers are renowned all over the world. Israeli diamond industry is the base for world diamond wholesale. More than a half of the cut diamonds in the world are manufactured in Israel. In the fifteen century Lodewyk van Berken, a Jewish diamond cutter invented the scaif, and [...]
