History of the Jews in Aden
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The Jews of Aden were a Yemenite Mizrahi community living in and around the city of Aden from antiquity until the mid twentieth century.
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[edit] History
After the expulsion of Hejazi Jews during the rise of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula, the main centers of Jewish population were in the extreme south. The Jews living in present-day Yemen were allowed to continue living there and practicing their religion as dhimmis, provided they pay jizya, a special tax placed upon all non-Muslims.
[edit] Under the British Protectorate
The British Empire began to expand into the Middle East during the mid ninteenth century, and the Jews of Aden fared considerably better under the Aden Protectorate than under Muslim rule, which attracted Jewish immigrants from the rest of Yemen. After 1838, there were roughly 5,000 Jews in the city of Aden itself, and some 2,000 in the rest of what would become the Aden protectorate.
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[edit] Later History
Mirroring the situation in many Arab nations in the build up to and after the declaration of the State of Israel, the Jews of Aden suffered from anti-Semitic attacks in 1947 and 1948, and most emigrated (see Jewish exodus from Arab lands). Operation Magic Carpet, which brought nearly all of Yemen's Jews (some 49,000) to Israel, was based in Aden.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia, 1992, Encyclopedia Publishing, "Arabia", "Aden"
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