Despite mutual taboos against exogamy, memoirs and similar materials written by Jews from Yemen contain a number of anecdotes describing love affairs and sexual encounters between Muslims and Jews prior to the mass migration of the vast majority of Yemen's Jews to Israel in 1949–50. These stories associate these liaisons with vulnerability, poverty, and marginalization. In them, sex and conversion to Islam are intrinsically connected, yet this interreligious intimacy leads not to resolution but to ongoing identity crises that persist beyond the community's realignment with a majority-Jewish society. The staging of the anecdotes in rural areas where shariʿa norms held only nominal sway, in watering places and hostels where strangers might interact, and at dusk, when identity is difficult to discern, heightened their ambiguity.

尽管互禁忌讳，但也门犹太人撰写的回忆录和类似材料包含许多轶事，描述了在也门绝大多数犹太人于1949-50年大规模移居以色列之前，穆斯林与犹太人之间的爱情和性接触。这些故事将这些联系与脆弱性，贫困和边缘化联系起来。在他们中间，性与conversion依伊斯兰之间有着内在的联系，但是这种宗教间的亲密关系并没有导致解决，而是导致了持续的身份危机，这种危机一直持续到社区与多数犹太人社会的重新融合。在伊斯兰教徒规范只在名义上占主导地位的农村地区，在浇水的地方和招待所中，陌生人可能会互动，而在黄昏时，人们很难辨认身份，这增加了他们的歧义。