Jewish Sharab

Jewish Sharab

Jewish Sharab is an ancient Jewish quarter in Ibb Governorate, Yemen established around 130 and dismantled around 1940, and was one of the most illustrious places of Jewish settlement in Yemen. Many distinguished Jewish personalities were born there, including R. Shalom Sharabi, R. Mordechai Sharabi and R. Shalom Shabazi. It was an important place of Torah learning, and home to many Yeshivot and schools. It had a population of over 10,000 Jews and was a major industrial centre of Yemen, where goldsmiths' work, weaving, commerce, silk trading and shoemaking were the main industries of the day. It had a collective GDP of at least $20,000, reflecting great Mizrahi Jewish productivity.


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