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Jews of Yemen: a Vanishing Culture Vol. 18. No. 1 January 1993 the American Museum of Natural Historv Participating and Higher Members of Jewish woman in Haidan. Yemen Jewish men praying in Sanaa. Yemen Jews of Yemen: A Vanishing Culture Thursday, January 7 7:00 p.m. Main Auditorium $7 for Members, $10 for non-Members bride Is their drive away evil spirits.) The crowded ghetto of retain distinct aspects of Beth Shearim. the most famous Sanaa. In the seen celebrating in the company of Yemenite heritage, Others, the chil- Sanaa. Yemenite Jews created a style do not danc« Jewish cemetery in the Near East are much women only, for women nowhere else in dren of mixed marriages, during {common of architecture known company of men. Only the third century CE w^th their grandparents' or sing in the Middle East. They did the only less familiar era), contains a Yemenite catacomb. the at certain points of the prenuptial — that of artisans culture. Its work allowed them father, brothers, This burial site is difficult to reach. footage of tradi- ceremony are her silversmiths, cop- The film includes in- — becoming skilled to be present. entrance is overgrown, and the celebrations, rituals, and uncles penmiltcd weavers, woodworkers, tional Yemenite scriptions pigment have been persmiths, Johanna Spector, in red and music. Spector's camera Anthropologist masons. dances, almost time and and is music ethnologist as well as a obliterated by homes of several Yemenite who a Between 1948 and 1950 large enters the weather Those that can still be read filmmaker and director, will introduce families as Ihey celebrate the Passover numbers of Yemenite Jews emigrated form the first historical evidence of an the film and answer questions from about those Seder in ways that are unique to to Israel, Little was known conclusion. Her established Jewish community in Yemenite Jews. the audience at its who remained behind ar\d Yemen. pre-wedding film 2.000 Years of Freedom Vanishing In one segment — a For In Jeuis of Yemen: A Cochin Jews of India centuries the Jews of Yemen — young bride wears Honor: The filmmaker Johanna Spector ceremony a enjoyed freedom and prosperity But CuHure. premiered at the Museum last Jan- anklets to protect her from the evil takes the viewer to modem Israel and with the suicide of the last Jewish king gold uary; Jews of Yemen had its ceremonial areas eye. a pearl studded headdress, a — rode his into the homes and 1986, according to legend he and vast amounts of premiere here in Jews of Yemenite descent. brocade coat, horse into — and the increas- of modem film is 78 minutes long. Use the sea including necklaces, earrings, The the people the film visits, like jewelry, ing power of Islam. Yemenite Jews Some of the January Members' programs and six bracelets worn in a prescribed the young boys who go to school to for the were stripped of their land, forbidden considered magi- coupon on page 3 lo register special order. (All jewelry is lo farm, within small learn Aramaic and the and confined is thought to program. pronunciation of Hebrew. cal, since its tinkling areas of villages and of the capita! of Yemenite ' Behind-the-Scenes and $7 for non-Members. Use Tour; Adult-Child regis- of the Members* Museum Tours Members' Robbers, the coupon on page 3 to Workshop Assassins, and ter. Department of Geology of The Making a Manipulators: Entomology Asia Southern Thursday, January 21. Calendar Some Bees I Members' Workshop Fridav. January 8 5:00-9:00 p.m. Sunday. January 10 3:00. 4:30. and Have Known Identifying Saturday, January 23. 10:30 a.m.-noon and 6:00 p.m. 14 10:30 a.m.-4:00 p.m. 1:00-2:30 p.m. Thursday, January Rocks and 7:00 p.m. Their Minerals Come upstairs to the Mu seum's fifth floor to visit collec- Curator Jerome G. Rozen Tuesday, January 19. and tion areas and research offices own in the Department Members can set their has worked Tuesday. January 26 that are never open to the since the agendas at this calendar- of Entomology general public. Representa- can explore the 5:30-7:30 p.m. Members Myles he's traveled making workshop- June 1940s, and tives from the Department of geological diversity of Asia SOLD OUT basic skeleton around the world to conduct the will provide the Entomology's curatorial and with Sidney Horcnstein. Robbers, Assas- of materials for kids research At staff will talk of envi- and plenty Geologist Sidney Horenstcin scientific to Mem- Museum's coordinator Manipu/o(ors: and parents to create their sins, and workshop that bers about their research and ronmental public programs. hosts a two-part for the Bees I Have Known own personal calendars Some identify and clas- fieldwork and display speci- He'll lead tours through the shows how to talk about some of the year. he'll rocks. mens from the biggest collec- Mammals and new sify the major groups of halls of Asian behavior he's ob- The workshop is geared fascinating specimens and tion of any of the Museum's Asian Peoples to obsewe the Hell use actual between the served, focusing on the evolu- topographic toward chHdren exhibits to explain the scientific departments — a wide variety of cleptoparasitic bees — Museum 9, Tickets are tion of that numbers throughout the ages of 6 and differences between igneous, collection more features found creatures whose per couple and available remarkable metamorphic than 17 million insects and world's largest continent. $26 sedimentary and and survival depends on their skill avail- only to Participating arachnids. 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