 Yemenite family reading from the Psalms | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
 Israel | 435,000 |
 United States | 80,000 |
 United Kingdom | 396[1] |
 United Arab Emirates | 42[2][3][4] |
 Bahrain | 5[5] |
 Yemen | 5[6] |
| Languages | |
| Hebrew, Judeo-Yemeni Arabic, Yemenite Hebrew | |
| Religion | |
| Judaism | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Mizrahi Jews, Jewish ethnic divisions, Yemenis, and Samaritans | |
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Yemenite Jews, also known as Yemeni Jews or Teimanim (from Hebrew: יהודי תימן, romanized: Yehudei Teman; Arabic: اليهود اليمنيون), are Jews who live, or once lived, in Yemen, and their descendants maintaining their customs. Between June 1949 and September 1950, the overwhelming majority of the country's Jewish population emigrated to Israel in Operation Magic Carpet. After several waves of persecution, the vast majority of Yemenite Jews now live in Israel, while smaller communities live in the United States and elsewhere.[7] As of 2024, only five Jews remained in Yemen, with one of them being Levi Marhabi.[8]
Yemenite Jews observe a unique religious tradition that distinguishes them from Ashkenazi Jews, Sephardic Jews, and other Jewish groups. They have been described as "the most Jewish of all Jews" and "the ones who have preserved the Hebrew language the best".[9] Yemenite Jews are considered Mizrahi or "Eastern" Jews, though they differ from other Mizrahis, who have undergone a process of total or partial assimilation to Sephardic law and customs. While the Shami sub-group of Yemenite Jews did adopt a Sephardic-influenced rite, this was mostly due to it being forced upon them,[10] and did not reflect a demographic or general cultural shift among the vast majority of Yemenite Jews.
- ^ "Yemenite Jews in Stamford Hill: A failed experiment".
- ^ "Watch: After 15 Years: Yemeni Jewish Family Reunites In The United Arab Emirates". The Yeshiva World. August 10, 2020. Retrieved March 30, 2021.
- ^ Weiss, Yoni (August 16, 2020). "Report: Yemen's Remaining Jews to Move to UAE Following Israel Treaty". Hamodia. Retrieved August 17, 2020.
- ^ "Point of No Return". Point of No Return.
- ^ "History of the Jews of Yemen". May 10, 2022.
- ^ "One of Yemen's last Jews laid to rest by his Muslim neighbors - report". The Jerusalem Post. June 16, 2024. ISSN 0792-822X. OCLC 15700704. Retrieved September 24, 2024.
- ^ Rod Nordland (February 18, 2015). "Persecution Defines Life for Yemen's Remaining Jews". The New York Times.
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- ^ Rabbi Shalom ben Aharon Ha-Kohen Iraqi would go to a different Yemenite synagogue each Shabbat with printed Sephardic siddurim, requesting that the congregation pray in the Sefardic nusach and forcing it upon them if necessary (Yosef Kapach, Passover Aggadta, p. 11). See also Baladi-rite Prayer.