Ḥabil
ḤABIL
ḤABIL , the name of four places inhabited by Jews at the time of their emigration from Yemen (1948–49). All four are located in the southernmost regions of present-day Yemen, or close to its border. Among the genizah fragments there is a letter of appointment from a gaon to a person, whose name has not been preserved, requesting that the latter undertake the collection of funds for the Babylonian Academy. A letter was sent to the inhabitants of al-Ṣawīl and al-Ḥabil, which was to be read to them so that they would make their contributions; these were to be sent to the head of the academy in San'a or the emissaries of the academies in Yaman and Yamāma.
bibliography:
S.D. Goitein, in: Tarbiz, 31 (1961/62), 360–1.
[Haïm Z'ew Hirschberg]
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