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Preservation of Jewish Ethnic Identity in Yemen: Segregation and Integration as Boundary Maintenance Mechanisms

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Yael Katzir
Yael Katzir
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Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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This essay examines the sociocultural mechanisms which preserved the Jewish ethnic identity in Yemen over the centuries. The Jewish community of Yemen existed continuously as an ethnic minority for over 1,500 years, dating back to the mid-fifth century and ending with the establishment of the state of Israel, when the Jews were declared persona non grata by the Yemeni government and were forced to leave en masse in 1948 (Ratzaby 1978).

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Ethnic Discrimination
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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 1982 , pp. 264 - 279
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1982

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