Eightieib. Anniversary of A. ementte Aliyah in Israel
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group in Jerusalem who clearly to happen, but the governor
By JACOB EDELSTEIN
The Yemenite community is ; recalls the stress and the suffer- would not change his mind.
marking the 80th anniversaryling that befell them on the way. Meantime many- families ran
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of the inception of Yemenite He is 86-year-old Rabbi Shalom out of funds, and not having
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aliyah to the country. There Kassar, spiritual leader of the the wherewithal to continue
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were no emissaries to arouse I Yemenite community in the their journey, they decided to
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Jewish communities in the Dia-jHoly Land. He was a child of return to Sana. Others decided
spora for settlement in Zion inlsix • when his parents set out to set out for India. The over-
those days. It was a spontane- from Yemen, but he has vivid whelming Majority remained
ous movement. Two hundred memories of the journey and steadfast in their det?rmination
Jewish families in Sana, the is able to give a colorful descrip- to go to Eretz Israel and so
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capital of Yemen, grouped tion of everything that befell continued their wait. Finally
themselves together, collected them during their long and permission to set sail was ob-
tamed. When the group arrived
all their belongings and set out. arduous trek.
To reach the Yemenite port in Egypt, the majority had no
some on foot, others on donkeys.
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on a dreary arid harassing trek , of Hudeida was a ten day's money left. Only 15 families
through the desert, until finally journey overland. "We rode on had the means to continue the
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only 15 of the original 200 camel and on donkeys, and journey to Eretz Israel and
families were privileged to set there were many small children I finally to set foot in Jeru-
foot in Jerusalem, the city of among us," he recalls. "But I salem."
when we arrived at Hudeida
their dreams.
When they disembarked at
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This aliyah served as a cor- we found the exit closed. The
Jaffa they • scrape( together
nerstone for the succeeding Turkish governor forbade us to their last remaining pennies
large waves of immigration proceed to Suez. For four
to hire donkeys. It was a two
months we were held up at
from the Yemen.
days' ride to Jerusalem.
There is one survivor of this Pudeida waiting for the miracle
No sooner had the group ar-
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rived at Motza — a village on
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the outskirts of Jerusalem —
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than the country claimed its
first victim among them. One
of the group, fired by the urge
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to be the first to set foot in
the Holy City, rode ahead in
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front of the others in his desire
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to announce the arrival of the
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But he had hardly reached the
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dropped dead from sheer ex-
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haustion. The followers dis-
mounted and, with their infants
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on their backs, picked up the
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body and made their sorrowful
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It was evening when they ar-
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rived to the gates of the Holy
City. On making their appear-
ance in the Jewish Quarter, no
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one would take them for Jews,
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since they spoke only Arabic
and were dressed like Beduin.
The Jews of Jerusalem asked
for signs of their Jewishness.
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They were made to recite the
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"Shema." One of the group
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asked to be directed to the
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Friedman. Printing Shop, the
only address that he kneW in
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Jerusalem. It transpired that
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one of the books printed in
this shop had found its way to
the Yemen. There he recited
whole passages of the book by
heart. There was no doubt left
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as to their Jewishness. The
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rumor • spread that members of
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the Lost Ten -Tribes had arrived
from beyond the River Sam-
batyon where they had been
exiled thousands of years before.
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The new arrivals were led
to one of the synagogues
where they were accommo-
dated in the women's section.
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held in readiness for new im-
migrants. They had to re-
main in their temporary shel-
ters in the synagogues or in D
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store rooms for a long time.
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It was no easy matter to find
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found work as stone masons
and builders and became the
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building trade which was a
purely Arab occupation. It is
from the Yemenites that the
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The first arrivals from the
Yemen were followed by other
groups who were assisted by
the Baron de Hirsch Fund and
by local benefactors to found
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the Yemenite Quarters that are
still extant in Jerusalem.
from
Rabbi Shalom Kassar is a
scribe by vocation. In the
course of his long life he has
written hundreds of Torah
Scrolls that are in use in syna-
gogues the world over.
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