When Yemen Was a Kingdom Run by Jews (Tablet)
History · Tablet Magazine
Yemen Was Once a Powerful Arabian Kingdom Run by Jews
For about 150 years, the kingdom of Himyar in what is now southwestern Yemen was ruled by Jewish kings, until an Ethiopian expedition overthrew the last of them in the early sixth century. Drawing on new archaeological finds and historian G.W. Bowersock's The Throne of Adulis, Jacob Mikanowski explores this little known chapter of Jewish history.
By Jacob Mikanowski, Tablet Magazine, August 8, 2013. Opens in a new tab.
