Again,
now. Thank God for wiki or we'd be dependent on lies.
Yemenite Jews fall within the "
Mizrahi" (eastern) category of Jews, though they differ from other Mizrahi Jews who have undergone a process of total or partial assimilation to
Sephardic liturgy and custom.
While the Shami sub-group of Yemenite Jews did adopt a Sephardic-influenced rite, this was mostly due to it being forced upon them,[9] and did not reflect a demographic or general cultural shift among the vast majority of Yemenite Jews.
(source material from wiki)
Rabbi Shalom ben Aharon Ha-Kohen Iraqi would go to a different Yemenite synagogue each Shabbat with printed Sephardic siddurim, requesting that the congregation pray in the
Sephardic rite and
forcing it upon them if necessary (Rabbi
Yosef Kapach, Passover Aggadta, p. 11). See also,
Baladi-rite Prayer.
Many Yemenite Jews have also sacrificed their cultural heritage on this Zionist-Israeli altar.
The Yemenites' religious traditions and their very distinct customs were initially perceived as an obstacle to their integration into the evolving Israeli society. They were led to believe that by adopting the ideologies and identity of the Zionist enterprise (which bore the imprint of the
secular, Labor-dominated leadership), they would facilitate their entry into the mainstream. […] Many Yemenite Jews assimilated themselves gradually into the newly formed secular Zionist culture, while others resisted the pressures for such "Israeli" acculturation.
Laura Zittrain Eisenberg; Neil Caplan (February 1, 2012).
Review Essays in Israel Studies: Books on Israel, Volume V. SUNY Press. p. 168.
ISBN 978-0-7914-9331-1.
I broke it up into several posts bc you said so much bs, I had to take it piece by piece.