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Ascending The Palm Tree
Edited by Dr. Rachel Yedid and Dr. Danny Bar-Maoz
Until about one hundred and thirty years ago, the Jewish community in Yemen was largely unknown. Despite the irregular connections that this ancient Diaspora held with the various centers of the world's Jewry, knowledge about the community remained somewhat vague.
E’ele Betamar, ASF’s partner in presenting The Yemenite Conference: Shared Jewish Cultural Values of Jews & Muslims in Yemen, has embarked on this great research project, which aims to document, preserve, research, and distribute Yemenite Jewry’s heritage by publishing books that treat on Yemenite Jewish research in it's various branches.
Ascending the Palm Tree: An Anthology of the Yemenite Jewish Heritage includes several new studies that have been written specially for this book. Thus twenty-two articles have been collected, along with dozens of photographs, which gives the readers a glimpse into the special world of Yemenite Jews in the following areas: their history and their manner of life in their country of exile; the miraculous manner in which they immigrated to Eretz Israel; their costumes; the eye-catching, ornate decoration and architecture of their homes; the Jewish daughter's way of life in Yemen; and the expression of all these in song, in storytelling, and in dance.
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