Thoughts on the Third Destruction

Yehuda Nini

1971

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This entry portrays racism and xenophobia encountered by Mizrahi Jews in Israel. The text provides insight into history; however, The Posen Library does not condone or promote oppression of any kind.

I leaf through the commemorative albums of the settlements of Ri’shon Le-tsion, Reḥovot, Petaḥ-Tikvah, and Ḥadera. Among other things I was looking for documentary material on the establishment of the Yemenite neighborhood in Netanya—for research connected with immigration to the Land of Israel. While leafing through the albums, I found lists of…

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Yehuda Nini

1930–2020

Historian Yehuda Nini was born in Palestine in 1930 into a family who had immigrated from Yemen. He received his doctorate from Tel Aviv University in 1977; his dissertation was on the Jewish community in nineteenth-century Yemen. He also cataloged the records of Sana’a, Yemen. In 1994, Nini became head of the Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies at Tel Aviv University. In 1983 he received the Yitzhak Ben Zvi Prize for his research on the Jews of Yemen.

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