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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habbani_Jews
>The Habbani Jews are a Jewish tribal group of Yemenite Jews from the Habban region in eastern Yemen
>Habbani Jews were described as taller, more muscular, and darker than their Muslim neighbors. The men did not sport peyot like other Yemenites, and rather than covering their heads, wore an oiled thong through their characteristically long hair. They plucked their mustaches, distinct from other Jews, but similar to neighboring Muslims. They wore a blue prayer shawl over one shoulder, or walked bare chested, smearing their torsos with sesame oil and indigo. A course calico loincloth, died indigo, covered their bottom, and they typically walked barefoot or with sandals. The women wore their hair in tiny braids, and wore loose-fitting embroidered dresses.
>Though isolated, the Jews of Habban did maintain some level of contact with other Yemenite communities though said contact was rare and usually resulted in some quarrel over Jewish law.
>Sultans in Arabia employed Habbanis as soldiers in their armies or as personal guards. Habbanis sometimes served as mercenaries; Abdullah I of Jordan, who preferred Circassians and other non-Arab bodyguards, had a number of Habbani Jewish guardsmen, including Sayeed Sofer, and his brothers Salaah and Saadia.
>According to researcher Kevin Avruch, about half of the Habbani in Israel are affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement in some way. According to anthropologist Laurence Loeb, the religious integration and influence of Chabad has reshaped Habbani culture. Traditional Habbani values are praised and valued by the Chabad affiliates, although a preference for Chabad values is also held. Some tensions occurred during the 1960s and 1970s when Chabad culture was first introduced to the Habbani, but by the 1990s community resistance to Chabad had faded. The community had welcomed the piety introduced through Chabad education but had taken offence to differences in religious ritual.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemenite_Jewish_silversmiths
>Jewish silversmiths who hailed from Yemen were highly acclaimed craftsmen who dominated craft production in precious metals in the southern Arabian peninsula, from the 18th through the mid-20th century, a period and region during which Muslims did not engage in this work. These Yemenite silversmiths were noted for their use of fine granulation and filigree, producing such ornaments as women's bracelets, necklaces, finials, etc. that are renowned the world over.
>Yemenite silversmiths, a trade held almost exclusively by Jews living in the traditional Yemeni society, were active from at least as far back as the mid 1700s. Some Yemenite silversmiths migrated to Israel in the late 1800s, a migration that continued in the early 1900s. Muslims appear to have entered silversmithing in the Yemen in the mid-1900s as the Jews departed for Israel.
>According to Mark. S. Wagner, Professor of Arabic literature and Islamic Law at Louisiana State University, it is difficult to clarify precisely how silver- and gold-smithing came to be regarded as occupations that were too impure for Muslims in the Yemen to engage in; jobs that were similarly regarded in traditional Yemeni culture included pottery making, disposing of human waste from latrines, processing the carcasses of dead animals, soap-making, tanning, and making cakes of cow dung for use as fuel.
>Among the variety of jewelry known in Yemen, the labbe necklace is the most impressive in its complexity. A highly skilled work of Jewish silversmiths, it is a testimony of exquisite craftsmanship, requiring painstaking work and a developed artistic sense, expressed by the harmonious and aesthetic blend of its many parts. The labbe is a popular piece of jewelry among Jewish and Muslim women alike.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Jews
>Mountain Jews are Jews of the eastern and northern Caucasus, mainly Azerbaijan, Chechnya, Dagestan and Inigushetia.
>It is believed that they had reached Persia from Ancient Israel as early as the 8th century BCE. They continued to migrate east, settling in mountainous areas of the Caucasus. The Mountain Jews survived numerous historical vicissitudes by settling in extremely remote and mountainous areas. They were known to be accomplished warriors and horseback riders.
>Their language, called Juhuri, is an ancient Southwest Iranian language which integrates many elements of Ancient Hebrew.
>By the early 17th century, Mountain Jews formed many small settlements throughout mountain valleys of Dagestan. One valley, located 10 km south of Derbent, close to the shore of the Caspian Sea, was predominantly populated by Mountain Jews. Their Muslim neighbors called this area "Jewish Valley." The Jewish Valley grew to be a semi-independent Jewish state, with its spiritual and political center located in its largest settlement of Aba-Sava (1630–1800). The valley prospered until the end of the 18th century, when its settlements were brutally destroyed in the war between Sheikh-Ali-Khan, who swore in loyalty to Russian Empire, and Surkhai-Khan, the ruler of Kumukh.
>Mountain Jews are known for their military tradition and have been historically viewed as fierce warriors. Some historians suggest that the group traces its beginnings to Persian-Jewish soldiers who were stationed in the Caucasus by the Sasanian kings in the fifth or sixth century to protect the area from the onslaughts of the Huns and other nomadic invaders from the east. Men were typically heavily armed and some slept without removing their weapons.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romaniote_Jews
>The Romaniotes are a Jewish community with distinctive cultural features who have lived in Greece and neighboring Eastern Mediterranean countries for more than 2,000 years, being the oldest Jewish community in the Eurasian continent.
>During World War II, when Greece was occupied by Nazi Germany, 86% of the Greek Jews, especially those in the areas occupied by Nazi Germany and Bulgaria, were massacred despite efforts by the Greek Orthodox Church and many Christian Greeks to shelter Jews.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevanic_language
>Yevanic is a Greek dialect formerly used by the Romaniotes
>It’s linguistic lineage stems from the Jewish Koine spoken primarily by Hellenistic Jews throughout the region, and includes Hebrew and Aramaic elements. It was mutually intelligible with the Greek dialects of the Christian population. The Romaniotes used the Hebrew alphabet to write Greek and Yevanic texts.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_China
>Jews remain a small minority in China, but unlike Jewish communities in many other parts of the world, Jews have historically lived in China without any instances of antisemitism from the Han majority populace contributing to mutual respect and admiration between the two peoples. Modern Han Chinese have developed a favorable view of Jews, admiring them for their contributions to humanity, their ability to survive, the sharing of Chinese values such as family, frugality, hard work and education, and being products of ancient civilizations have been an impetus towards the long and enduring friendship between the Chinese and Jewish peoples.
>During the Ming Dynasty (1368–1644), a Ming emperor conferred seven surnames upon the Jews, by which they are identifiable today: Ai (艾), Shi (石), Gao (高), Gan (甘), Jin (金), Li (李), Zhang (張), and Zhao (趙). Interestingly, two of these, Jin and Shi, are the equivalent of common Jewish names in the west: Gold and Stone.
>The first modern Western record of Jews residing in China is found in the records of the 17th-century Jesuit missionaries in Beijing. The prominent Jesuit Matteo Ricci, received a visit from a young Jewish Chinese man in 1605. Ricci mentioned this man's name as Ngai, who has since been identified by the French sinologist Paul Pelliot as a Jew named Ai T'ien, who explained that the community he belonged to was monotheistic, or believing in only one God. It is recorded that when he saw a Christian image of Mary with the child Jesus, he took it to be a picture of Rebecca with Esau or Jacob, figures from Hebrew Scripture.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mashhadi_Jews
>The Jewish community of Mashhad, Iran formed in the 1740s, when Nadir Shah Afshar called for the relocation of forty Jewish families from Qazvin and Dilaman to Kalat. Circumstances ultimately led these families to settle in Mashhad. Known for their integrity and loyalty, these trusted Jewish families were selected to protect Nadir Shah’s treasures and jewels, spoils which he had taken from his Indian invasion.
>The pivotal historic event that transformed an undefined group of Iranian Jews into an unfaltering community was the Allahdad (means “God’s Justice”) of 1839. Building social tensions and resentment and suspicion by Shiite Muslims of the Jewish inhabitants of Mashhad's Eydgah ghetto, culminated in an explosive event. A blood libel on the commemoration day of a holy Muslim Imam led to a devastating pogrom. On the eve of Mashhad's Allahdad, an estimated thirty-six Jews were killed and approximately seven Jewish girls were abducted to become Muslim child brides. Within the next twenty-four hours, under the risk of death, approximately three hundred Jewish families made the pretense of converting to Islam, under the advisement of their community leaders. The term Allahdad was coined by the forced converts to relate their past sins with the calamity they were enduring.
>Following the forced conversions, a number of Jewish families, unable to sustain the facade of Muslim faith, escaped to Herat, Afghanistan. Later on, from Afghanistan to Sub-Continent (Pakistan). Very few Mashhadi converts permanently assimilated to Islam. It is estimated that the remaining community members proceeded to live dual lives as crypto-Jews through the 1920s.
>Mashhadi communities now exist in Israel, New York, Milan, Hamburg, London and Pakistan. In Pakistan, Mashhadi families are Muslims.

WHY DO ALL OF THESE ISOLATED POPULATIONS LOOK SO DAMN SIMILAR

>tfw no Mountain Jewfu to cuddle with next to your FAL

Sephards>all other meme groups

Damn.

>Interestingly, two of these, Jin and Shi, are the equivalent of common Jewish names in the west: Gold and Stone.

OY VEY

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Revolution_of_1918–19
>Commanders and leaders
>Rosa Luxemburg †
>Karl Liebknecht †
>Kurt Eisner †
>Paul Levi
>Franz Mehring †
>Wilhelm Pieck
>Ernst Toller
>Erich Mühsam
>Gustav Landauer †
>Eugen Leviné †
>Karl Radek
>Emil Eichhorn
>The news of the abdication came too late to make any impression on the demonstrators. Nobody heeded the public appeals. More and more demonstrators demanded the total abolition of the monarchy. Karl Liebknecht, just released from prison, had returned to Berlin and re-founded the Spartacist League the previous day. At lunch in the Reichstag, the SPD deputy chairman Philipp Scheidemann learned that Liebknecht planned the proclamation of a socialist republic. Scheidemann did not want to leave the initiative to the Spartacists and without further ado, he stepped out onto a balcony of the Reichstag. From there, he proclaimed a republic before a mass of demonstrating people on his own authority (against Ebert's expressed will). A few hours later, the Berlin newspapers reported that in the Berlin Lustgarten – at probably around the same time — Liebknecht had proclaimed a socialist republic, which he affirmed from a balcony of the Berlin City Palace to an assembled crowd at around 4 pm. At that time, Karl Liebknecht's intentions were little known to the public.
>Rosa Luxemburg drew up her founding programme and presented it on 31 December 1918. In this programme, she pointed out that the communists could never take power without the clear will of the people in the majority. On 1 January, she again demanded that the KPD participate in the planned nationwide German elections, but was outvoted. The majority still hoped to gain power by continued agitation in the factories and from "pressure from the streets". After deliberations with the Spartacists, the Revolutionary Stewards decided to remain in the USPD. This was a first defeat.

>Known for their integrity and loyalty
Are you sure they were Jews?

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Fuck off The German revolution was started in November 1918 by German sailors, not in January 1919 by Rosa and them. It's called the November Revolution and not the January Revolution for a reason.

nice try

Those “Christian children killed by Jewish communists” in your /pol/ infograph are actually Jewish children who were massacred by Christians in pogroms. It’s funny how stormfags are this pathetic they will recirculate a photo of dead Jewish children and find a way to blame Jews for it. That photo is very famous too, it brought worldwide attention to the pogroms in Russia that killed tens of thousands of Jews.

>Habbani Jews were described as taller, more muscular, and darker than their Muslim neighbors.
How can Muslims even compete?

>OP doesn't charge us for posting in this thread on a free board on a free website
Get in sync with the culture you are referencing, user.

Someone redpill me on Bar Kochba

They can try

>thinking a Hindu is a Muslim

Burger education

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>Thinking a Sikh is a Hindu

My favorite Jewish surname is Liebgold

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Afghanistan
prepare for memes

lieb me gold plz

Lieb means 'dear' in German

This was the ultimate redpill for me.

>tfw descended from the tribe of Dan
>tfw no Kingdom of Beta Israel

I'm interested in the liturgical differences in the search for the traditions which are the oldest and most authentic.
The Mizrahi Jews and the various Yemeni traditions seem to be of interest.

youtu.be/9Bkj0Y8WCPg

They don't and they resemble the host populations of the places they inhabit. Almost looks like Wikipedia picks out any image for these articles. Perhaps an agenda?

This is interesting

>inaccurate bullshit picture was the ultimate redpill
You're American aren't you

>According to researcher Kevin Avruch, about half of the Habbani in Israel are affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidic movement in some way. According to anthropologist Laurence Loeb, the religious integration and influence of Chabad has reshaped Habbani culture. Traditional Habbani values are praised and valued by the Chabad affiliates, although a preference for Chabad values is also held. Some tensions occurred during the 1960s and 1970s when Chabad culture was first introduced to the Habbani, but by the 1990s community resistance to Chabad had faded.

Why do Hasids ruin everything?

Any good books on Sabbatai Zevi?
He seems fascinating but I don't know much about him.

>Redpill
What...?
how?

Are you seriously saying you were surprised to find out that all the Abrahamic religions shared a starting point?

תְּבֹרַךְ, מִנָּשִׁים--יָעֵל, אֵשֶׁת חֶבֶר הַקֵּינִי: מִנָּשִׁים בָּאֹהֶל, תְּבֹרָךְ.

Tavōrakh, minoshim--Yoʿeil, eishath Ḥavar haQeini: minoshim bo'ōhal, tavōrokh.

Blessed above women shall Jael be, the wife of Heber the Kenite, above women in the tent shall she be blessed.

מַיִם שָׁאַל, חָלָב נָתָנָה; בְּסֵפֶל אַדִּירִים, הִקְרִיבָה חֶמְאָה.

Mayim sho'al, ḥolov nothono; baseiphal adirim, hiqrivo ḥamo.

Water he asked, milk she gave him; in a lordly bowl she brought him curd.

יָדָהּ לַיָּתֵד תִּשְׁלַחְנָה, וִימִינָהּ לְהַלְמוּת עֲמֵלִים; וְהָלְמָה סִיסְרָא מָחֲקָה רֹאשׁוֹ, וּמָחֲצָה וְחָלְפָה רַקָּתוֹ.

Yodhoh layotheidh tishlaḥno, wiminoh lahalmōth ʿameilim; waholmo Sisro moḥaqo rōshō umoḥaṣo waḥolpho raqothō.

Her hand she put to the tent-pin, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote through his head, yea, she pierced and struck through his temples.

בֵּין רַגְלֶיהָ, כָּרַע נָפַל שָׁכָב: בֵּין רַגְלֶיהָ, כָּרַע נָפָל, בַּאֲשֶׁר כָּרַע, שָׁם נָפַל שָׁדוּד.

Bein raghlaho, koraʿ nophal shokhov: bein raghlaho, koraʿ nophal, ba'ashar koraʿ, shom nophal shodhōdh.

At her feet he sunk, he fell, he lay; at her feet he sunk, he fell; where he sunk, there he fell down dead.

archive.is/wMtG4
>"The Arabs have taken him away," wailed Rosa Bakshayev, one of three new widows whose husbands were interred at the cemetery in Or Akiva, a small town in northern Israel. "I want to kill them all - women and children too. Why does Israel do nothing?"
>The attack at a girl's bat mitzvah party in nearby Hadera was not the most deadly in the blood-soaked history of the past 15 months. But still it completed another loop in the downward spiral of violence. Most of the victims were the Mountain Jews, tough immigrants from the Caucasus region of the former Soviet Union, where a centuries-old tradition of blood feuds still holds sway.
>The assailant, Abdel-Salaam Hassounah, knew he was not going to come back from his mission alive - he left a tearful video as testament, telling his family not to grieve. But he no doubt imagined he would be shot cleanly in the head.
>Instead, surrounded by Mountain Jews, he was bludgeoned to the ground and stamped almost to death. Police insist that they shot him dead as he lay bloodied on the ground. But the 180 guests at the party believe that they exacted their own Caucasian death sentence. "Inside every Caucasian Jew there sleeps a beast," said Pyotr Agaronov, 72. "We are the toughest." The attack began at 10.45pm on Thursday, as the party was at its loudest, with the guests singing and dancing.
>The mourners had some suggestions on how to resolve the conflict. "You have to kill three generations of the terrorist's family. That will discourage them," said one man. Another proposed: "Sew up the terrorist's body in a pig skin and bury it.
These Mountain Jews are a different breed.

archive.is/wMtG4
>"The Arabs have taken him away," wailed Rosa Bakshayev, one of three new widows whose husbands were interred at the cemetery in Or Akiva, a small town in northern Israel. "I want to kill them all - women and children too. Why does Israel do nothing?"
>The attack at a girl's bat mitzvah party in nearby Hadera was not the most deadly in the blood-soaked history of the past 15 months. But still it completed another loop in the downward spiral of violence. Most of the victims were the Mountain Jews, tough immigrants from the Caucasus region of the former Soviet Union, where a centuries-old tradition of blood feuds still holds sway.
>The assailant, Abdel-Salaam Hassounah, knew he was not going to come back from his mission alive - he left a tearful video as testament, telling his family not to grieve. But he no doubt imagined he would be shot cleanly in the head. Instead, surrounded by Mountain Jews, he was bludgeoned to the ground and stamped almost to death. Police insist that they shot him dead as he lay bloodied on the ground. But the 180 guests at the party believe that they exacted their own Caucasian death sentence. "Inside every Caucasian Jew there sleeps a beast," said Pyotr Agaronov, 72. "We are the toughest." The attack began at 10.45pm on Thursday, as the party was at its loudest, with the guests singing and dancing. The mourners had some suggestions on how to resolve the conflict. "You have to kill three generations of the terrorist's family. That will discourage them," said one man. Another proposed: "Sew up the terrorist's body in a pig skin and bury it.
These Mountain Jews are a different breed.

I thought methodism is just a rejection of calvinism.

Amerifat former christian convert - every single time.

It would be nice to see a real yemenite jew explain their traditions.

really activates my almonds

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Yeah, getting expelled for "causing the plague" and "host desecration" is their fault.

Kek, NATSOC Germany expelled but no mention of mass killings that even the most hard-headed holocaust denier would be aware of. Mostly, those carried out by the einzatzgruppen in occupied countries, even if some occupied countries like Ukraine, Poland, and other eastern euros were more than happy to help point out the Jews and even do some outsourced killings themselves

They wanted free themselves from those romans and greeks i guess

jews admitted to both of those

Why are jews smart?

The vertical line represents percentage and the horizontal line represents verbal intelligence

They aren't smart. they just use nepotism.

This.

there is one salty nigga in here

They are because the fucking pigskin faggots forced them into banking, which meant a lot of money and high tier education for a lot of jewish families. European autism has once again fucked everyone.

>dual lives as crypto-Jew
The phrase crypto-Jew on wikipedia made me laugh somehow.

Culture.
Seriously, Semites don't seem to have innately high average IQ.

They are Asian.

Why don't Yemenites eat dairy on shavuot? Does it mean that Israelites didn't have dairy for shavuot originally and that it was a diaspora invention?

You guys aren't really descended from dan.

t. habesha myself

yeah, and the maronites aren't phoenician
fucking hezbollah

>Nestorian
>Islam
But that's wrong.

>their spatial awareness is shit
What is spatial awareness?

this is a common myth. They were not forced into anything.

When you ban Jews from most occupations that aren't moneylending, you kind of are.

You're thinking about it too much, the picture is just supposed to show that they are all jewish.

>The Virgin Mizrahi vs the Chad Habbani

It blows my mind that all Jews today are supposedly related to the same 12 founders of the tribes of Israel.

Yeah, but were they banned before or after they arrived?