Word: yemen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the Big Powers thus stalemated, the U.N.'s little nations gave new voice to old complaints. In the Assembly's Trusteeship Committee, Yemen demanded an end to Britain's protectorate over Aden in southern Arabia. Greece called for self-determination for British-held Cyprus (in the hope that it would go Greek). Guatemala wanted Britain to give up British Honduras to Guatemala. Egypt kept up her demand for British withdrawal from the Suez Canal and the Sudan. All the Arab states demanded an end to French rule of Morocco, even though the General Assembly...
Songstress Shoshana (Hebrew for Rose) has a deceptive way with her. She announces her songs demurely in broken English. Then, above a tinkling piano accompaniment, her voice rises plaintively while her hands trace delicate arabesques. As she sings an ancient Sephardic spiritual or a song of Yemen's lonely shepherds, her voice rises in volume and takes on a coarser quality, and the melodies take eerie slides and leaps. By the time she reaches the song's climax, her head tossed back, her voice a full-throated wail, the nightclub is pulsating with a savage beat...
Like some of the Jews she sings of, Shoshana made the trek from Yemen to Palestine as a child of three. At 13 she persuaded her family to let her quit elementary school, go to a dramatics academy in Tel Aviv. Soon she was starring in school folk reviews, appearing regularly on Tel Aviv's radio station. At 18 she had a national reputation as a folk singer, was giving recitals and appearing in concerts with symphony orchestras...
...Jews from Yemen, living culturally and technologically in about the year 1000 A.D., are segregated from all the rest. They have almost nothing in common even with other Oriental Jews. They have to be taught to use forks and spoons, to make up their cots and sleep on them, instead of packing away the sheets in their knapsacks and curling up on the ground. Social workers watch carefully to see that blankets and food issued to children are not immediately taken by their fathers; in patriarchal Yemen, children come last...
...larger house in our village in Yemen," she said, "but this one [and she pointed to a tin hut, empty except for a stack of blankets, a little stove and a big pot] is better. Rain makes more noise on the roof, but it doesn't come in. It's true we don't eat so much meat as we did, but there are other things I never dreamed of. Look at that little pipe by the road there. Water comes if you turn the top piece...