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	Yemenite Jews - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Yemenite Jews (תֵּימָנִי, Standard Hebrew Temani, Tiberian Hebrew Têmānî; plural תֵּימָנִים, Standard Hebrew Temanim, Tiberian Hebrew Têmānîm) are those Jews who live, or whose recent ancestors lived, in Yemen (תֵּימָן "far south", Standard Hebrew Teman, Tiberian Hebrew Têmān), on the southern tip of the Arabian peninsula.
		The Yemenite Jews are the only Jewish community who maintain the tradition of reading the Torah in the synagogue in both Hebrew and the Aramaic Targum ("translation").
		Yemenite Jews were acquainted with the works of Saadia Gaon, Rashi, Kimhi, Nahmanides, Yehudah ha Levy, and Isaac Arama, besides producing a number of exegetes from among themselves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yemenite_Jews (3361 words)

	Yemenite Hebrew language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Yemenite Hebrew language or Temani Hebrew language is a descendant of Biblical Hebrew traditionally used by Yemenite Jews.
		Yet, according to other scholars as well as Yemenite Jewish Rabbis such as Rabbi Yosef Qafah the Temani Hebrew dialect was not influenced by Yemenite Arabic, as this type of Arabic was also spoken by Yemenite Jews and is distinct from the liturgical Hebrew and the coversational Hebrew of the communities.
		Among the dialects of Hebrew preserved into modern times, Yemenite Hebrew is traditionally regarded as the form closest to Hebrew as used in ancient times, particularly Tiberian Hebrew and Mishnaic Hebrew.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Yemenite_Hebrew_language (230 words)

	The Virtual Jewish History Tour - Yemen
		According to Yemenite tradition, a group of well-to-do Jews left Jerusalem after they heard Jeremiah predict the destruction of the Temple in 629 BCE, 42 years before the destruction occurred.
		In 1679, the Jews were expelled from Yemen and let back in a year later because of the horrible effect on the economy with out this professional field.
		Jews built a courtyard in the middle of the second floor instead, so they could maximize the height of 9 meters that the house had to be.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/vjw/Yemen.html (3013 words)

	Jews of Yemen
		Today, Jews are the only indigenous religious minority besides a small number of Christians, Hindus and Baha'is. The small community that remains in the northern area of Yemen is tolerated and allowed to practice Judaism.
		Jews are traditionally restricted to living in one section of a city or village and are often confined to a limited choice of employment, usually farming or handicrafts.
		Yemenite Jews have little social interaction with their Muslim neighbors and are largely prevented from communicating with world Jewry.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/anti-semitism/yemenjews.html (719 words)

	Jewish Post - News - Ovadia Ben-Shalom: "On The Wings of Eagles" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Or, the Center of Culture and Education, of the heritage of the Jews from Spain launched, recently, a conference on the culture of the Yemenite Jews sponsored by the Ben-Shalom’s society.
		As official representative of the Jews, he was treated with honor and respect in the court of the imam and in government circles.
		Symbolically, the new Yemenite Jewry Forest located in the Judean foothills, to the west of Jerusalem, close to the pioneer settlements in Jerusalem corridor, the ones who were established by pioneers from the Magic Carpet, fresh olim from Yemen, do express the legacy of the Yemenite inside Israel, trailblazers of the modern Zionist enterprise.
	www.jewishpost.com /jp0809/jpn0809s.htm (2738 words)

	FORWARD : FastForward (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Yemenite Jews were among the first Jews to relocate to Palestine in the late 19th century, and in 1949 and 1950, "Operation Magic Carpet" airlifted most Jews remaining in Yemen to Israel.
		Although Yemenite Jews were forced to endure difficult and often humiliating regulations, including restrictions on travel and the payment of special taxes, they generally were permitted to participate in the life of the society.
		In large part because of the India trade, the merchant class of Jews lived in Aden and the capital city of Sanaa, but the majority of Yemenite Jews made their homes in remote villages scattered around the country, providing essential crafts for what was predominantly an agricultural society.
	www.forward.com /issues/2000/00.12.01/fastforward1.html (1177 words)

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		Jews had to take off their sandals or slippers when passing a mosque; in some places, they had to remove them when leaving the ghetto walls.
		All in all, however, the fate of the Jews actually depended on the whims of the individual Arab ruler, and not all Arab rulers were tyrants.
		Yemenite Jews were, thus, the jewelers, workers in precious metals, weavers, saddle makers, sword makers, ceramists, potters, shoemakers, painters, and carpenters for the whole country.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /0298/yemen1.html (1513 words)

	Metallurgy and the Jews (article/book)
		Ozeri was a child of Yemenite Jews rescued during the 1949-1950 "Operation Magic Carpet." He became a photographer, and returned to his birthplace to record the life of the remaining Jews of Yemen.
		Ozeri was among the Jews flown to Israel "on the wings of eagles." Jonathan Mark, in a report in Jewish Week, February 10, 1995, notes that "having migrated from ancient Israel with the warnings of Jeremiah still ringing in their ears," the promise of a return on eagle's wings was fulfilled.
		The Yemenite hierarchy came to the distressing realization that the country's economy was hemorrhaging with the drain of basic industries and irreplaceable artisans.
	student.cs.ucc.ie /cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/php/art.php?aid=9463 (675 words)

	Yeshiva University Commentator -- Volume 62, Issue 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The first large group of Yemenite Jews came to a community in Palestine known as E’e’leh Be’tamar in 1882 motivated by a Yemenite belief that mashiach would arrive in that year.
		The Yemenite Jews, already accustomed to the rigors of manual labor to which the European Jews were not, were the obvious choice.
		Although the Yemenite Jewish community, secluded from the amenities of modern life for thousands of years, was obviously out of place in the civilization into which they were thrust, they nonetheless made significant contributions in several realms.
	yuweb.addr.com /archives/v62iB/features/tawil.html (668 words)

	The Jewish Kingdoms of Arabia
		At first, the number of Jews was small (the figure for the Yemen in the first centuries CE is estimated at 3,000, scattered all over the country), but it rapidly increased through conversion of Arabs to Judaism, especially in the south where even some rulers, e.g.
		In ancient poetry of the region, the Jews are depicted chiefly as traders and wine-merchants.
		The position of the Jews was, however, adversely affected by the anti-European tendency and rising nationalism of the past generation, the reaction against Zionism being a pretext rather than the sole cause of the deterioration of the Jewish status.
	www.eretzyisroel.org /~jkatz/arabia.html (2877 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Transplantation of the Yemenites: The Old Life They Led (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		...The Jews were also the tailors, a craft almost entirely restricted to that of embroiderer, for clothes themselves are of a very simple cut: the main work consists of embellishing the women's trousers with variegated and elaborate embroidery...
		...But even Jews from small urban centers are deeply versed in agricultural matters, partly because many of them used to spend much time in the country as wandering artisans or peddlers, but mainly because the artisan was completely dependent on the well-being of his agricultural clientele...
		...The Arabic spoken by the Yemenite Jew is as different from that of the Jews of Baghdad, Aleppo, or Casablanca as French is from Spanish, but the common heritage of medieval Middle Eastern civilization, with its particular brand of Judaism, compels us to think of the Yemenites as a subgroup of Oriental Jewry...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V12I1P30-1.htm (3744 words)

	MSN Encarta - Multimedia - Yemenite Jews
		A Yemenite bride and groom pose at their wedding ceremony in Israel.
		The bride is bedecked with jewelry and wears the traditional wedding costume of Yemenite Jews.
		Her elaborate headdress is decorated with flowers and rue leaves, which are believed to ward off evil.
	encarta.msn.com /media_681500105_761576458_-1_1/Yemenite_Jews.html (85 words)

	THE FORCED MIGRATION OF JEWS FROM ARAB COUNTRIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Jews had begun to leave Yemen in the 1880s, when some 2,500 had made their way to Jerusalem and Jaffa.
		In court, a Jew's evidence was not accepted against that of a Moslem.
		After the Second World War, thousands of more Yemenite Jews wanted to come to Palestine, but the British Mandate's White Paper was still in force and those who left Yemen ended up in crowded slums in Aden, where serious riots broke out in 1947 after the United Nations decided on partition.
	www22.brinkster.com /horizon5/jac/THE_FORCED_MIGRATION_yemen.htm (418 words)

	Commentary Magazine - The Transplantation of the Yemenites: In the New Land (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The Transplantation of the Yemenites: In the New Land
		A SUCCESSION of droughts and the growing exclusion of Jews from urban trades had something to do with the decision of the Yemenite Jews to leave a land where they and their forebears...
		...For centuries the Yemenite Jews were forbidden to wear white or colored garments, except on the Sabbath, and were restricted on weekdays to fl and dark blue...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V12I1P35-1.htm (3321 words)

	sufi.html
		Parenthetically, it should be pointed out that most Yemenite Jews in Israel, as well as in the United States, are no longer original natives of Yemen but belong to the second and third generations, zealously retaining a highly diversified cultural wealth created in Yemen and imported from there.
		We may conclude therefore that in the authors mind the Jews were not deliberately persecuted by the authorities or discriminated against by them during this event.
		In the list of thirteen items, only one refers to the Jews: the hatred of the country's population and of its governors towards the Jews, the injustices they are subject to, and their humiliation.
	www.aiys.org /webdate/tobi.html (1771 words)

	Arab-Jewish Refugees, the other Middle Eastern Refugee problem
		Jews were "plundered" by the Moors "from time to time," as "upon the death of a king." They were eventually "transferred to the new city of Fez."[156] But anti-Jewish propaganda was used to incite Muslim masses in a power struggle and many Jewish lives were taken.
		Jews were stripped of French citizenship, banned from schools and public activities, and rendered "Pariahs"[184]' through the passage of a new law.[186] Only the Allies' landing prevented the transfer of Algerian Jews to European death camps.
		The Bey refused to intervene, and the Jew was decapitated.[204]
	www.eretzyisroel.org /~peters/arabjew.html (13047 words)

	The Children of Yemen
		From 1948 to 1952 more than 50,000 Yemenite Jews were fooled by the Zionist Jewish Agency into abandoning their ancient home and way of life and instead moving to the Zionist State, where they were summarily uprooted from their dedication to Judaism.
		This was to appeal to the unwitting belief of the pious Yemenite Jews that the establishment of the Zionist State heralded the arrival of the Messiah, as they were told by Zionist emissaries.
		When they arrived in the Zionist state the Yemenite Jews were first assigned to immigrant camps, where in a number of investigations religious organizations discovered that the Yemenites were being systematically alienated from their religious heritage.
	www.jewsagainstzionism.com /zionism/impact/yemenchildren.cfm (740 words)

	croci.html
		In the 1970s, a new generation of scholars concerned with the history and culture of the Jews of the Muslim world in the modern period began to be integrated into institutions of higher learning in Israel.
		The Yemenite emigration to the Holy Land began almost simultaneously with the Eastern European Biluists, but the author also underscores the difference between the two movements: "the 1881 Yemenite immigration was characteristic of unorganized distress immigration [sic] without distinct ideology, apart from vague theories about the Holy Land.
		The translation of this erudite history of Yemenite Jews in the nineteenth century can serve to point future researchers in the direction of a more analytical study of the historical experience of the Jewish communities of Yemen.
	www.aiys.org /webdate/nini.html (2043 words)

	The Yemenite Jews Mystique
		Perhaps this was the role of the Yemenites in Israeli society.
		A Yemenite man can be married for 50 years and never once call his wife by her name.
		After the Rabin assassination, when it became known that the killer was a Yemenite, Ashkenazi society was in shock because this went counter to all their expectations of Yemenites.
	www.bintjbeil.com /E/occupation/yemenite_jews.html (3259 words)

	Judaism 101: Ashkenazic and Sephardic Jews
		Sephardic Jews are the Jews of Spain, Portugal, North Africa and the Middle East and their descendants.
		Although some individual Sephardic Jews are less observant than others, and some individuals do not agree with all of the beliefs of traditional Judaism, there is no formal, organized differentiation into movements as there is in Ashkenazic Judaism.
		Sephardic Jews have a different pronunciation of a few Hebrew vowels and one Hebrew consonant, though most Ashkenazim are adopting Sephardic pronunciation now because it is the pronunciation used in Israel.
	www.jewfaq.org /ashkseph.htm (735 words)

	Jewish Post - News - Ancient Traditions of Yemenite Jews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Program: Individual sessions focused on the rich and unique history and culture of Yemenite Jews; on their several mass migrations from Yemen to Israel and the U.S.; the process of their absorption in Israel and on their distinctive style of Torah scholarship and rabbinical leadership.
		Co-sponsoring the event was the Yemenite Jewish Federation of America and the Queens College Center for Jewish Studies.
		Nitza Drugan, the organizer of this conference said: "The first significant group of Yemenite Jews arrived in Eretz Yisrael in 1881 and waves followed throughout the next decades," said Nitza Druyan, co-chair of the conference.
	www.jewishpost.com /jp0610/jpn0610j.htm (209 words)

	Jewish Genetics - DNA, genes, Jews, Ashkenazi
		Ethiopian Jews mostly descend from Ethiopian Africans who converted to Judaism, but may also be related to a lesser extent to Yemenite Jews.
		Yemenite Jews (Temanim) are a mix of Yemenite Arabs and Israelites.
		The answer is that Jews are a religion and a civilization, but not a race or singular ethnic group (the latter two definitions marginalize proselytes).
	www.khazaria.com /genetics/abstracts.html (1702 words)

	Vocalization of Hebrew Alphabet
		Jews from Eastern Europe and 'Modern Hebrew' both make no distinction between Kaf and Quf, pronouncing both as K as in Kitchen.
		Iranian Jews, Iraqi Jews, and some other communities pronounce this as a dry sound between G and K made deep in the back of the throat.
		This pronunciation was shared by almost all communities until Jews came to the United States and adopted the 'English R.' 'Modern Hebrew' adopted the 'French R' for this letter.
	sagavyah.tripod.com /ALEFBET.html (1108 words)

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