Read on to explore more about an ancient Jewish community that survived all odds and came home. Learn more about the history of the Jews of Yemen.
Yemen was relatively distant from the established Jewish community centers in Israel, Baghdad, Persia, Syria, Egypt and Europe. Nevertheless, links...
Download Image of Costumes and characters, etc. Group of Yemenite Jews. Free for commercial use, no attribution required. Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Copy print verso: Group of Yemenite Jews. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.. Dated: 01.01.1898. Topics: matson g eric and edith photograph collection, american colony jerusalem photo dept, yemenite jews, ultra high resolution, high resolution, history of israel, yemenite jew, jews, judaism, 19th century, ethnic groups, library of congress
Read on to explore more about an ancient Jewish community that survived all odds and came home. Learn more about the history of the Jews of Yemen.
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Since the establishment of the State of Israel (69 years ago today!), the vast majority of Yemen’s Jewish population has migrated to the Jewish State. Half a century earlier, a young German Jew named Hermann Burchardt followed his two great passions, photography and ethnography, to Yemen, and documented the community in its native surrounds. As […]
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This is an albumen print made from a negative by the American Colony. This photograph is of four Yemenite men and two children. ""American Colony, Jerusalem."" in the lower left-hand corner. In a band at the bottom of the print: ""379 Group of Yemenite Jews. Arabische Juden. Juifs du Yemen."" This picture may be the same as No. 542 on page 18 of ""1911 Revised and Enlarged Catalogue of Lantern Slides made by the American Colony, Jerusalem..."" (published by Vester & Co., Jerusalem). For further information, see: N.E.Lind, ""The Return of the Gaddites: Reminiscences of the American Colony and of the Yemenite Jews in Jerusalem"", PEQ July-Dec 1973, pages 151-160. From the Finn Collection.
