Blogs about: Yemenite Jewry And Filligree
The Yemenite Arrival
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Josh wrote 5 months ago: Last night, in another secret operation, sixteen Yemenite Jews arrived in Israel. And, like before, … more →
Saadia's Return
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Josh wrote 9 months ago: In October of 2007 I had the opportunity to visit Raida, the last village in Yemen with an indigenou … more →
The Last Exodus of the Yemenite Jews
Josh wrote 10 months ago: On Thursday, December 11th, 2008, Moshe Yaish Nahari was gunned down on the street in Raida, Yemen. … more →
Chewing Gat in Jerusalem
Josh wrote 1 year ago: Today I went to Machane Yehuda, the Jewish market in Jerusalem to try and find some gat from a Yemen … more →
Judeo Arabic II
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Josh wrote 1 year ago: As I mentioned in the previous post, I found a Jewish prayer book from around the year 850, written … more →
Judeo-Arabic
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Josh wrote 1 year ago: So I got my first look at real Judeo-Arabic, the Arabic dialect spoken by the Jews of the Arab lands … more →
Yemenite Filigree Cheating
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Josh wrote 1 year ago: For the past several weeks I’ve been slowly working on Yemenite filigree, with mounting levels … more →
My grandfather's jewelery tools
Josh wrote 1 year ago: These are my grandfather’s jewelery tools. I found them buried in a closet. I decided they wou … more →
Yemen: Empty Jewish homes destroyed
Josh wrote 1 year ago: In the latest attack targeting Yemen’s few remaining Jews, rebel Houthi militiamen destroyed s … more →
The Yemenites.
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Josh wrote 1 year ago: These are some photos I’ve collected online of Yemenite Jews, past and present. … more →
Saadia
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Josh wrote 1 year ago: Today I was poking around on Flickr looking at pictures of Yemenis and to my great surprise I found … more →
Yemenite Filigree 2
Josh wrote 1 year ago: I knew Yemenite filigree was amazing and gorgeous, but didn’t realize until I was in Yemen tha … more →
Yemenite Filigree 1
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Josh wrote 1 year ago: Prior to 1950-53 Yemen had a large Jewish population (50,000+). One of the main occupations of the m … more →
