by hadassah | Aug 19, 2015 | Jews of Yemen
Primary Sources Forced Conversion of the Jews of Aden A Twentieth-Century Yemenite Version of the Pact of Umar, 1905. Sir John Hope and the Yemenites, Excerpt from The Statistical Bases of Sir John Hope’s Report on Immigration, Land Settlement and Development in...
by hadassah | Aug 6, 2015 | Jews in Islamic Lands
Jews settled in the Middle East in antiquity and came under Muslim rule in the 7th century. In the medieval period, Jews were protected and tolerated by their governments, but also treated as inferior to the local Muslims. In the twentieth century, the Jews were...
by hadassah | Aug 6, 2015 | 6th–16th centuries
Jews and Judaism stood at the cradle of Islam. This fateful conjunction had a lasting impact on the character of the new religion and greatly affected the destinies of the Jews who were to live under its shadow. The Prophet Muhammad created a religion — Islam; a...
by hadassah | Dec 31, 2008 | Jews of Yemen, Returning and Redemption, Uneasy Truce and the Suez War
Keren Hayesod, Jerusalem. No date, circa 1950s. A photographic essay of the immigration of Yemeni Jews into Israel. Click here for more on Jewish Refugees from Arab Lands To all those who participated in the redemption of the Jews of Yemen–to the people and the...
by hadassah | Nov 4, 2008 | Jews of Yemen, Mamluke Period
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 elements and adapted Islamic...
by hadassah | Sep 2, 2008 | Jews of Iraq, Literary Prophecy, Returning and Redemption
In the foreground are Iraqi Jews who inhabited the area surrounding the tomb. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
