נאריש זשלאָב מענטש<p>"Songs for the Brokenhearted is a <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Yemeni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yemeni</span></a> family saga spanning three generations. It’s the story of Saida, who meets Yaqub in an <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Israeli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israeli</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/immigrant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrant</span></a> camp in 1950, and of Saida’s daughter Zohara, who returns to <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Israel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Israel</span></a> in 1995 after Saida dies.</p><p>Set mostly in Israel, the <a href="https://babka.social/tags/book" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>book</span></a> moves between the 1950s, when thousands of Yemeni <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jews</span></a> arrived in Israel, and the 1990s, during the negotiations for the Oslo accords and the assassination of Yitzchak Rabin. Central to the novel are the songs of Yemeni <a href="https://babka.social/tags/Jewish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Jewish</span></a> <a href="https://babka.social/tags/women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>women</span></a> – an oral tradition created by illiterate women as a way to express their hopes and feelings."</p><p><a href="https://thejewishindependent.com.au/giving-yemeni-jews-a-voice-in-literature" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thejewishindependent.com.au/gi</span><span class="invisible">ving-yemeni-jews-a-voice-in-literature</span></a></p>