Yemenite-Jewish village south of Silwan, housing project built by a charity in the 1880s (1891)

The Old Yemenite Synagogue, known to its congregation as Beit Knesset Ohel Shlomo (lit. "Solomon's Tent Synagogue"), is a restored synagogue[1] from the nineteenth century[2] Yemenite Village (Harat al-Yaman in Arabic),[3] the Kfar Hashiloach (Hebrew: כפר השילוח) neighborhood in the Jerusalem district of Silwan.

History

Jewish community in Silwan (1884-1938)

Between 1885 and 1891, 45 stone houses were built for the Yemenite Jews which had arrived in Jerusalem in 1882[4] In 1936, during the 1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine, the Yemenite-Jewish community was removed from Silwan by the Welfare Bureau of the Jerusalem Community Council (Va'ad ha-Kehillah), the local counterpart of the Jewish National Council (Va'ad Leumi), into the Jewish Quarter as security conditions for Jews worsened.[5] and in 1938, the remaining Yemenite Jews in Silwan were evacuated by the Jewish Community Council on the advice of the police.[3][6]

According to documents in the custodian office and real estate and project advancement expert Edmund Levy, the buildings of the Yemenite Jews were occupied by Arab families without registering ownership.[7][8]

Jewish reclaim (2015)

In May, 2015 Ateret Cohanim, a Jewish group that had established legal ownership of the old synagogue, moved into the building.[9][10][11] Local residents threw rocks at the activists as they moved in.[9]

References

  1. ↑ American Friends of Ateret Cohanim/Jerusalem Chai, The Yemenite Village, from a September 2015 newsletter. Accessed August 2020.
  2. ↑ Gelber, Sylva M. (1989). No balm in Gilead: a personal retrospective of Mandate days in Palestine. Carleton University Press/McGill-Queen's Press (MQUP). pp. 87–88. ISBN 0-88629-104-6. Retrieved 22 August 2020.
  3. 1 2 Shragai, Nadav (January 4, 2004). "11 Jewish families move into J'lem neighborhood of Silwan". Haaretz.
  4. ↑ Homepage of the Yemenite Village Synagogue. Accessed August 2020.
  5. ↑ Gelber (1989), p. 56.
  6. ↑ Palestine Post, August 15, 1938, p. 2
  7. ↑ Documents show Arabs illegally obtained Jewish homes in Silwan, Bill Hutman, Jerusalem Post. Retrieved October 14, 2010.
  8. ↑ WHO OWNS THE LAND?, Gail Lichtman, Jerusalem Post. Retrieved October 29, 2010.
  9. 1 2 Jaskow, Rahel (6 May 2015). "Jewish activists move into building in Arab Jerusalem neighborhood Structure in Silwan was once the synagogue of a village built there for Yemenite immigrants in the 1880s, NGO claims". The Times of Israel. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  10. ↑ Ben-Gedalyahu, Tzvi (7 May 2015). "Jews Move into Former Yemenite Synagogue in Silwan Valley". The Jewish Press. Retrieved 8 May 2015.
  11. ↑ Joyus return to 130 Year Old Jerusalm Synangague May 26, 2015

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