ABSTRACT
A man or woman who was above the age of forty in 1975, in mid-career and with teenage children, would have been at least fourteen years old at the time of emigration from Yemen. Much of his or her socialization took place in South Arabia. The Yemenite shkhuna had changed little physically since my earlier stay. There were three more synagogues, formed as the result of schisms in existing ones. For several reasons, an increasing number of young people were moving out of the shkhuna, to other parts of Kiryat Eliahu, to surrounding towns, or even to cities some distance away. The most striking change has occurred in marriage choices. The trend toward marrying out of the Yemenite group that we saw developing in 1975–1977 continued, so that by 1987, for the people in my sample, that figure had risen to 56 percent marrying outside of the group.
