Jewish-Muslim relations and migration from Yemen to Palestine in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries / / by Ari Ariel.

• Superior document: Brill's Series in Jewish Studies, Volume 50
• Author: Ariel, Ari.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : Brill,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's series in Jewish studies ; v. 50.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 pages).
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

In Jewish-Muslim Relations and Migration from Yemen to Palestine in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Ari Ariel analyzes the impact of local, regional and international events on ethnic and religious relations in Yemen and Yemeni Jewish migration patterns. Previous research has dealt with single episodes of Yemenite migration during limited spans of time. Ariel, instead, provides a broad sweep of the migratory flows over the 70 year time span during which most of Yemen’s Jews moved to Palestine and then Israel. He successfully avoids the polemic nature of much of the literature on Middle Eastern Jewry by focusing on the social, economic and political transformations that provoked and then sustained this migration.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Theoretical Considerations and Historical Context -- Jewish Migration from Yemen to the Ottoman Sanjak of Jerusalem, Palestine, and Israel -- The Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Zionist Movement in Yemen: The Missions of Yom Tov Semah and Shmuel Yavnieli -- The Forced Conversion of Jewish Orphans in Yemen under Imam Yahyā -- Regime Change, Anti-Jewish Violence, and Emigration in Libya and Yemen -- Conclusion -- Bibliography of Secondary Sources -- Index.