Yemenites in "yeshiva" (Yemen)

Text on the back -The Israel Museum Jerusalem מוזיאון ישראל, ירושלים © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1984 כל הזכויות שמורות Ya'akov (Jack) Rosner Yemenites in yeshiva, 1950's In memory of Dr. Jo. Levy (1983-1907) יעקב (ג'ק) רוזנר תימנים בישיבה, שנות החמישים לזכרו של ד”ר ג'ו לוי 270 printed in israel;Production period - 1984;founders, architects, painters etc. - Ya'acov (Jack) Rosner;Front Period - ca. 1950;Category - Jewish studies;Description - This horizontal postcard depicts a photograph of Yemenites in yeshiva (institution for Torah study). It focuses on two boys who read a page of the Talmud with an old men. They are in the middle of reciting the text. The two boys are sitting at a wood table, one next to the other and their teacher is sitting on the other side, so that he must read the text upside down. He points to the text with a yad (literally 'hand', it is a Jewish ritual pointer used to keep the sacred texts up). The three wear the traditional Kippah (skullcap). It was difficult in Yemen to acquire volumes of Talmud. The Talmidei Chachamim (Torah scholars) were consequently used to read a volume in a group of four and each one was specialized in the reading likely to his side: There was the one who read the right way up, the one who read horizontally from the left, the one who read horizontally from the right and the