Books

An anthropological study of Yemenite Jews who came to Israel in the 1949 to 1950 airlift, examining their community life, adaptation, and relations with Israeli society.

An anthropological study of Yemeni Jewish women who settled in an Israeli town, exploring how they adapted family life, work, and tradition after immigration.

A collection of scholarly essays on relations between Jews and Muslims, with particular attention to Yemen, the Arab world, and Jewish life under Islam across several historical periods.

A picture book that tells the story of the 1949 airlift of Yemen's Jews to Israel through two perspectives, a young Yemeni Jewish girl and an Alaska Airlines pilot who flew the rescue planes.

A picture book for young children about Saliman, a Yemenite Jewish boy preparing to leave Yemen for Israel, who brings only a small stone holding the memories and people he loves.

A novel by Ayelet Tsabari in which Zohara returns to Israel in the 1990s after her mother's death and uncovers her mother's love story from a Yemenite immigrant transit camp in the 1950s.

A memoir by Ayelet Tsabari about growing up in a Yemenite family in Israel, losing her father at age nine, serving in the army, and years of wandering through India, Canada, and beyond in search of home.

A collection of short stories by Ayelet Tsabari about Mizrahi Israelis, many of Yemenite background, navigating family, war, migration, and identity in Israel, India, and Canada; winner of the Sami Rohr Prize.

A picture book in which Gali, a girl from a Yemenite family, questions her cousin's henna ceremony until helping her grandmother prepare it teaches her to treasure her heritage.

A history of Yemenite Jewry from 1800 to 1914, examining community life under Ottoman and Imamate rule, social and economic conditions, messianic currents, and the early waves of emigration to Palestine.

A collection of scholarly studies on the history and culture of Yemenite Jews, covering their relations with Muslim rulers, messianic movements, Hebrew and Judeo Arabic literature, and religious traditions from medieval to modern times.

Through translations of Israel’s 1950 government inquiry into education in immigrant camps and extensive historical analysis, Zameret explores the political and social tensions surrounding the education of new immigrants, particularly Mizrahi Jews, and their lasting impact on Israeli society, including the emergence of the ultra-Orthodox Sephardi political party Shas.