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Sa'ada, Yemen
The city of Sa'ada (Sa’dah, صعدة ,צעדה), Yemen.
Description
Sa'ada was the main city which people living in the Wadi Amlah region associated. Sa'ada had 2 mikvehs plus those in private homes during the rainy season. Near the wall of the city was the Jewish quarter. There was a school/ kitab in Sa'ada. The Jewish cemetery was to the west of the city.
There was a mikveh in the Qadesh synagogues and also one in Bet Madmon.
There was a Mori in Sa'ada and he would teach his students near his house.
There was a well near the house of the Mori.
In one of the synagogues, they would sit on mats on the floor.
One of the synagogues may have belonged to the Jamil family.
Sa'ada, Yemen
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Sources
Rinah Starik interview with Yishak and Yochebed Cohen. See also: Encyclopedia of Jewish Communities in Yemen, אנציקלופדיה לקהילות היהודיות בתימן, Hamachon Leheker Hachmei Teiman p. 494-498
"Joseph Tobi, The Jews of Yemen: Studies in Their History and Culture (Brill: Leiden, Boston, Köln: 1999), p. 22. In October 1949 Najrani Jews left for Yemen, where Yemeni Jews were preparing to leave to Israel through Aden after Yemen's Imam Ahmed had issued in May 1949 an official permit for them to leave. Human Rights Watch email correspondence with Israeli academic of Tel Aviv university (name withheld), June 13, 2008."Source: http://www.hrw.org/en/node/75197/section/3#_ftn7