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Of the Jews of Yemen


Author: Library of Congress
Source: World Digital Library - Books

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This booklet is a collection of essays on Yemeni Jews. It was published in Berlin in 1913 on behalf of the Hilfskomitee für die Yemenitischen Juden (Assistance Committee for the Yemeni Jews), a Berlin-based Jewish organization dedicated to the resettlement  of Yemeni Jews in the Holy Land as part of the “overall Jewish colonization in Palestine.” The booklet contains five short essays, an introduction, and a conclusion. Written by different authors, the essays discuss such issues as the “origins of the Yemeni Jews; the conditions under which they live; the ...