#yemenite jews

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Yemeni Jewish bride gets dressed up in the traditional headdress, the "tishbuk lulu".

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Yemenite Jew (1914)

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YemeNight, a film by Talia Collis depicting the prewedding henna ceremonies of the Yemenite Jewish community; featuring a Yemenite Jewish bride and an Iraqi Jewish groom. Screened at the Arab World Institute's "Juifs d'Orient" exhibition in Paris and featured on Vogue

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Yemenite Jews, Jerusalem, circa 1905. Elkan Nathan, 1861-1947.

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You know the drill, reblog for a bigger sample size!

(I'm making versions of this poll for different Jewish diasporas, and I might do a denomination version, too!)

#jupi gets jewish#jumblr#jews#jew#jewish#judaism#polls#tumblr polls#poll#jews of tumblr#mixed jews#mixed#mixed race

[mioritic]

Portraits of Mandatory Palestine by Zoltan Kluger, 1934-1946

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A-WA - "Hana Mash Hu Al Yaman" (Official Video)

[nesyanast]

Thinking about how in 1983 Ofra Haza, a Yemenite-Jew refugee, sang the song Chai at Eurovision in Munich, Germany 11 years after the Munich Massacre and only four decades after the Holocaust, with a song where the chorus says Am Yisrael Chai - The Nation of Israel Lives and it's all about joyous survival. (She placed second)

[rotzaprachim]

If you need to defer to a U.S.-based context of whiteness/not whiteness to understand regional systems of inequality and structural violence outside of the United States you are going to have a really hard time with decolonization writ large

[bobemajses]

Old photographs of Jewish women II

1. Kurdistan; 2. Volhynia region, Ukraine; 3. Yemen; 4. Bukhara, Uzbekistan; 5. Algeria; 6. Crimea; 7. Cracow, Poland; 8. Thessaloniki, Greece; 9. Bulgaria

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رجل يماني يهودي في عمران، بعدسة إريك لافورج

Yemenite Jewish man in Amran, photographed by Eric Lafforgue

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Sharabi brothers harassed in UK after surviving massacre

Neria and Daniel Sharabi survived the Nova music festival massacre on 7 October, heroically saving others, only to be harassed by UK Border Control officers when they arrived in Manchester to talk about their ordeal, Sky News reports. The name Sharabi derives from Sharab,  a district in Ta’iz in south western Yemen, where  a large and ancient Jewish community settled.  It was a centre of Torah learning and distinguished rabbis were born there, including the rabbis Shalom Sharabi,Mordechai Sharabi and Shalom Shabazi. 

Daniel and Neria Sharabi (right) were detained for two hours on arrival in the UK

Two Israeli brothers have claimed that they were singled out by Border Force staff because of their passports.

The brothers said they faced antisemitism and were left feeling unsafe, wanting to never return to England again after staff at Manchester Airport allegedly singled them out because of their Israeli passports.

Neria and Daniel Sharabi survived the 7 October Hamas attack on Israel and helped others caught up in the assault on the Nova music festival.

They were invited to the UK by the Jewish Representative Council (JRC) of Greater Manchester to share their story but were detained by the Border Force for more than two hours. A video of the interaction was shared widely online.

Neria told Sky News: “We’re facing this antisemitism and, honestly, if I had heard it from a civilian, it would have been okay because it’s a civilian, but when I hear it from a cop with an official job and he’s supposed to watch me and give me the feeling I’m safe and he does exactly the opposite, I don’t know what to think. After what happened, I’m not feeling safe here and probably I won’t come back here.

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Daily Mail report

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the paradesi synagogue in kochi, kerala, india. the first synagogue on the site, built by the city's longstanding malabari jewish community, was destroyed by portugese who'd colonized the area in their persecution of locals. it was rebuilt in 1568 by spanish and portugese jews who fled persecution and later expulsion, hence the name "paradesi" ("foreign" in malayalam).

these sephardic jews and a community of jews of mixed african and european descent who were formerly enslaved ("meshuchrarim", "freedmen" in hebrew) joined the malabari jewish community of kochi and somewhat integrated. they were later joined by some iraqi, persian, yemenite, afghan, and dutch sephardic jews. the middle eastern and european jews were considered "white jews" and permitted malabari jews and meshuchrarim to worship in the synagogue. however, in what seems like a combination of local caste dynamics and racism, malabari jews were not allowed full membership. meshuchrarim weren't allowed in at all, but were instead made to sit outside during services and not allowed their own place of worship or other communal rights.

as the "white jews" tended to be rather wealthy from trade, this synagogue contains multiple antiquities. they include belgian glass chandeliers on its walls, hand-painted porcelain tiles from china on its floors, and an oriental rug that was gifted by ethiopian emperor haile selassie.

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Following the nation’s founding in 1948, new immigrants to Israel were placed in transit camps, in harsh conditions, which were tent cities operated by the state because of housing shortages. Hundreds of testimonies from families living in the camps were eerily similar: Women who gave birth in overburdened hospitals or who took their infants to the doctor were told that their children had suddenly died. Some families’ testimonies stated that they were instructed to leave their children at nurseries, and when their parents returned to pick them up, they were told their children had been taken to the hospital, never to be seen again. The families were never shown a body or a grave. Many never received death certificates.

The issue captured national attention in 1994 when Rabbi Uzi Meshulam and his armed sect of followers barricaded themselves inside a compound in the town of Yehud for 45 days, demanding an official government inquiry to investigate the disappearance of the Yemenite babies. One of Rabbi Meshulam’s disciples was killed in a shootout with the police, and the rabbi and his other followers were sent to prison. At the time, almost all Israelis dismissed Rabbi Meshulam and the accusations as the wild-eyed conspiracy theory of a religious radical.

Rabbi Meshulam’s goal was partly achieved the next year when the Cohen-Kedmi Commission was created to examine more than 1,000 cases of missing children. It was the third formal commission of inquiry created by the Israeli government since the 1960s. In 2001, the commission concluded there was no basis to the claim that the establishment abducted babies. The findings stated that most of the children who were reported dead had died, but about 50 children were unaccounted for. All three commissions had similar conclusions. The committee’s conduct and credibility has been called into question by the families and legal experts.

Naama Katiee, 42, remembers hearing about Rabbi Meshulam as a teenager. She asked her Yemenite father about what happened, but he said he didn’t want to discuss it. She met Shlomi Hatuka, 40, on Facebook through Mizrahi activist groups and together they founded AMRAM, a nonprofit organization that has cataloged over 800 testimonies of families on its website.

Ms. Katiee and Mr. Hatuka are part of a movement among the younger generation of Israelis of Yemenite descent — and activists from the broader Mizrahi community — who are building public pressure in demanding explanations for the disappearances and acknowledgment of systematic abductions.

“They really thought they had to raise a new generation, which was separate from the old ‘primitive’ community,” Ms. Katiee said about the early state of Israel. During the years soon after the country’s founding, Jews in Israel emigrated from over 80 countries and from several ethnic groups, part of a national project focused on forging a common new Israeli identity. Recently arrived Yemenite and other Mizrahi Jews tended to be poor, more religious and less formally educated than the Ashkenazi establishment in Israel, who looked down on them and wanted them to conform to their idea of a modern Israel.

  —  The Disappeared Children of Israel

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having jewish family from n iraq general area is very strange. n iraq area is a bit of an outlier from its neighbors people group-wise because it’s often kurd = muslim; arab = muslim also; assyrian = christian (or at least an overwhelming amount of christians are assyrian); yazidi = yazidi; but jews are called ‘kurdish jews’? they probably just got that label because they were in the area (some have ‘tribal’ last names if they were from the literal towns the tribes got their names from), but for example syrian jews who lived in aleppo/damascus and spoke arabic are called syrian jews, some people use “arab jew” but afaik most don’t 

in that context “kurdish jew” seems a little...misleading? “assyrian jew” is too, they were both religious minorities and spoke aramaic but jews have a separate history (and due to current politics it feels insensitive but idk.) and both of those can be used by israeli govt stuff for propaganda purposes, so looking into sources for this is nigh impossible. tbh i prefer ‘mesopotamian jew’