A Letter Concerning Cleaning Services of a Jewish Neighborhood – Yemen, 1932

Letter from Yihye ben Yihye Amis, inhabitant of a Jewish neighborhood in Yemen, to "Amir Almamnin" ("commander of the believers", common name of the first caliphs). Radaa (south-east Yemen), 1932. Request to let the Jews of the neighborhood take over the cleaning services and permit them to receive payment for cleaning. Until that time, cleaning was performed by a group named "Mutiba" and it rendered its services to Jews only in neighborhoods where its members lived. Single leaf 14 × 23 cm. Good condition. Folding marks, tears, pasted to a sheet of paper.