I’m not sure it was brief. The Yemenite Jewish community goes back millennia. There’s some brilliant writing about it by Yemenite author Ayelet Tsabari.

Yes, a long and illustrious history. I was just counting the brief time when the whole of the Yemen was properly controlled by the Ottoman Empire (1872ish) to their withdrawal in 1918, but there had been earlier periods of Ottoman rule, I believe.