by hadassah | Nov 4, 2008 | Jews of Yemen, Mamluke Period
San’a Pentateuch, 1469 San’a Pentateuch San’a Pentateuch, Yemen, 1469 The poem Give Ear; Deuteronomy 32. A fine 15th-century example of illumination in a Pentateuch. Hebrew manuscripts from Islamic lands contained no images, but were decorated with Jewish...
by hadassah | Aug 3, 2008 | Jews of Yemen
A Twentieth-Century Yemenite Version of the Pact of Umar, 1905 In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Beneficent This is a decree which the Jews must obey as commanded. They are obliged to observe everything in it. They are forbidden to disobey it. It is...
by hadassah | Mar 3, 2008 | Jews of Yemen, Muslim Lands/Ottoman Empire
Ketubbah, San’a, Yemen, 1747, KET 412. What do you want to know? Ask our AI widget and get answers from this website Create Account Contact...
by hadassah | Nov 11, 2007 | Jews of Yemen, Returning and Redemption
Click here to view the entire document. 51. Sir John Hope Simpson writes, when discussing Jewish immigration (p. 124)- “In many cases persons have been admitted who, if the facts had all been known, should not have received visas. A large number of these cases have...
