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20 Dec, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Phenomenal video of Yemeni Jewish poems that were written in the 16th and 17th centuries sung by Israeli Yemeni Jews. There are no English captions unfortunately for those who don’t speak Hebrew, however, I’ll add a few interesting bits of info below with the link at the end

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There are 18 poems in the entire 50 minute video. I’ve mentioned in the past that Shalom Shabazi is regarded as the poet of Yemen. 10 out of the 18 poems here are written by him, including the one in the clip from the first tweet.

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Another extremely well known figure who wrote the poem in this clip is Zechariah Dhahiri. He was one of the primary reasons for Kabbalah reaching Yemen as he travelled to the land of Israel and visited Yosef Karo’s Yeshiva.

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Two of the more well known singers involved are Gila Beshari and Shoshana Damari. Gila’s parents arrived during the operation “On Eagle’s Wings” and was part of the Hatikvah Workshop Community Theatre during the 70s together with Ofra Haza.

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Shoshana arrived a couple decades prior to Gila’s parents and was extremely influential right up to her passing away. I have a thread below of you want to read more about her.

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I highly recommend this entire video as these singers truly do the poems immense justice.

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~Legacy~ נפתלי בן מתתיהו Profile picture
26 Dec
Umbrella terms like Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi, which literally signify geographical regions, should not be confused with what nusach someone follows. Even Yemenite Jewry can be considered an umbrella term as within you had Adeni Jews, Habbani Jews, Sana’ani Jews etc.

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*Some* of the unique differences that each of those communities had were developed as a result of where their communities were located in Yemen rather than being impacted by which tiklal (siddur) they used.

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A Yemeni Jew who follows a largely Sephardic nusach (shami) did not simultaneously adopt the history and lived experiences of Sephardic Jews and their ancestors. Their history didn’t involve being exiled from the Iberian Peninsula in the late 15th century.

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~Legacy~ נפתלי בן מתתיהו Profile picture
19 Dec
Maybe comparing Mizrahi Jews to Trump voters isn’t exactly the best idea. Especially not if you’re trying to convince us we’re wrong in our perspective. This article also misses a lot of points regarding why Mizrahi Jews have zero trust in the left.

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The socialist elite class were those who looked down at us and our traditions as “backwards.” They also have a habit of talking to us like they know what’s best for us, instead of actually listening to us and having constructive dialogue.

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Also yes there is some racism too, I just last week dealt with a racist Israeli on the left who not only called all Mizrahi Jews liars, compared our grievances to fake news circulated by Qanon groups in the US, while referring to us as Arabs.

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30 Nov
Today is #JewishRefugeeDay where we remember the 850,000 Jewish refugees from the MENA region forced to flee after Israel won the war for its independence. In Yemen 16,000 Yemeni Jews were already in the camp set up near Aden by the time approval was given for their evacuation.
Once word got out that they were allowed to leave many Yemeni Jews dropped everything, took what they could and made the dangerous trek (largely by foot) towards Aden where evacuation was approved. Between June 1949-September 1950 over 350 flights helped rescue nearly 50k Jews.
Many died due to disease, starvation, and even attacks by robbers along the way to Aden. Even though they still experienced hardship in the early years inside Israel, with a few families even leaving back to Yemen (before civil war broke out), most deeply appreciated the help.
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28 Nov
Since this is gaining traction it’s worthwhile to point out another document worth reading through thoroughly. Ben Gurion’s testimony to the UN in 1947.

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“I understand the Arab case and I fully realize it. It is very simple. They state they do not care what happened, and nobody ought to care what happened fifteen hundred or two thousand years ago. We are here...”

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“Not one but many nations in the world did not accept that claim because they were faced with a unique case which is not as simple as that...the entire civilized world said that while the Arabs were liberated in various territories there was room for the Jews in Palestine.”

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2 Jul
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Jews are always told how they should identify and what part of the identity they need to remove in order to be viewed as equal while as a diaspora. First it was change/drop your “religion”, then it was keep your “religion” but drop your national identity (peoplehood). 1/
It never worked and all it does is create a “picking and choosing” of our identity to define us when it really should be viewed as a full package. A package that involves shared history, language, traditions etc. with minor variations in each due to being a diaspora. 2/
Our people is much easier understood when viewed through the lens of a tribe where “conversions” are essentially a right of passage into the tribe; a path to “citizenship” in the modern perspective. 3/
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The issue with the way the nakba is commemorated is that it pushes a narrative that Israel is the aggressor. It’s not so much about remembering those who were unfortunately caught in the middle of a war but tries to portray it as though Israel caused the war.
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It puts the unreasonable expectation that the Jews shouldn’t have tried to fight back. Acknowledging that war causes travesties is more than understandable, it’s expected. Distorting it to make it seem like an intended massacre of annihilation against Palestinians is disingenuous
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