Archival Materials

Correspondence Regarding the Midrash Committee and the Midrash Talmud Torah; Correspondence with the British Military Governor

IJA Number: 2814 · Language: Arabic

These documents primarily contain correspondence between the Midrash Committee, the Midrash school, Midrash Talmud Torah, and the Jewish Schools Committee in Baghdad. They discuss the monthly salaries of individuals working for the various religious organizations. There is a typed copy of the annual report for the Midrash school, 1945-1946. There are also unrelated documents from the British Military Governor’s Office to the Chief Rabbi from 1917. This correspondence relates to members of the Jewish community being allowed out after curfew (including to summon midwives), and the use of lights after permitted hours for religious celebration; the establishment of a charitable committee for poor relief in each community; and a letter requesting unleavened bread for Jewish prisoners during the Jewish holiday of Passover.

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Ḥevrah Ḳadishah Documents; Management Committee’s Request about Assets

IJA Number: 2803 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community, primarily related to Ḥevrah Ḳadishah, the Burial Society. They contain an Iraqi newspaper (al-Tākhay) with an advertisement selling the Ḥevrah Ḳadishah's car because the government froze the society’s assets. Also included are requests about assets from the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews to the government and an announcement in the official Iraqi newspaper (Al-Waqā’i‘ Al-‘Irāqiyah) about the Administrative Committee’s role.

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Books

[Book Section - Book of Deuteronomy]

IJA Number: 1108 · Language: Hebrew

This is the book of Deuteronomy that includes the Hafṭarot and the morning service for Shabat. There is no publication information.

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Archival Materials

Correspondence Relating to the Shamash Secondary School

IJA Number: 2802 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents including a letter from the Baghdadi Jewish Community to the Monitoring Body of the Iranian Schools in Iraq about receiving the rental payment of the Shamash Secondary School. The documents also include a contract between the Shamash Secondary School and an individual for maintenance projects.

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Archival Materials

Including Information about Construction of New Buildings, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2799 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are lease agreements managed by Heskel Shemtob, president of the Jewish Lay Council and executor of the Nuraeil endowment, construction plans and bid specifications, and blueprints of a community land plot.

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Endowed Property, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2786 · Language: Arabic

This is a file from the President of Jewish Community about the Nouriel endowment. It includes a description of the Nouriel endowed property with an official copy of the registration, and a hand drawn sketch of the property’s location.

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Archival Materials

Doctors Notes, Class Rosters, Frank Iny School

IJA Number: 2805 · Language: Arabic

These documents from the Frank Iny School consist of doctor’s notes for students and the class roster for the pre-school, kindergarten, first, second, third, and fourth grades/forms 1964-1965.

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Correspondence from the President of the Jewish Community Verifying a Waqf

IJA Number: 2785 · Language: Arabic

This is correspondence from 1955 on behalf of the President of the Baghdadi Jewish Community regarding records verifying a waqf from 1933. The 1933 records are included.

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Correspondence from the Jewish Community Relating to the Jewish Hospitals in Baghdad

IJA Number: 2783 · Language: Arabic

This is a booklet titled "Jewish Properties Committee, Hospital Committee." It includes: verification information on the Dar-el-Shifa Society for the Jewish poor, a letter from the incumbent of the Jewish community endowment to the Property Office Manager requesting property plan, and a copy of the requested plan with information on the endowed hospital for the needy from the Jewish community.

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Archival Materials

Documents Regarding Iraqi Citizenship Laws

IJA Number: 2779 · Language: Arabic

These are documents regarding the Iraqi citizenship laws from 1963, based on the constitutional laws of the National Supreme Revolutionary Council and the Ministry of the Interior.

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President of the Baghdadi Jewish Community Financial Report

IJA Number: 2774 · Language: Arabic

This is the report of the Baghdadi Jewish community leadership including bookkeeping and accounting from 4/1/1949 to 1/31/1953. It discusses the affects of the policies regarding abrogation of Iraqi citizenship and contains detailed accounting records of income and expenses of the Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools. The documents mostly address a proposal raised from within the Jewish Lay Council to cancel tuition to the Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools due to the dire financial situation experienced by many Baghdadi Jewish families.

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Books

לוח עבור

IJA Number: 2771 · Language: Multiple Languages

This is an almanac from 5733 (1973 – 1972) for the Baghdadi Jewish community. It includes a calendar of the year with both Jewish and Gregorian dates, dates of holidays, and Torah portions for the week. The book is printed in Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, Arabic, and English. There are many copies from different years in the collection.

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Student Folders with Photographs, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 2745 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish schools and consist of individual student records including photographs, exam scores, student certifications, admissions forms, letters of recommendation, doctor’s notes, and correspondence regarding student affairs.

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Archival Materials

Blank Form Letters, President of the Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2872 · Language: Arabic

These are blank form letters from the President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad warning individuals to come to the community's offices to discuss property they currently occupy without lease or permission from the Jewish Community.

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סדור מנחת ירושלם

IJA Number: 2910 · Language: Hebrew

This is a prayer book for the afternoon and weekday service according to the Baghdadi custom. There are many copies of this book in the collection.

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Archival Materials

Correspondence among Jewish Community Committees – Financial Matters, Salaries, Budgets

IJA Number: 2740 · Language: Arabic

This is archival material from the Baghdadi Jewish Community that contains correspondence between various Jewish community groups and government offices. Topics include: increases in monthly salaries, the allocation of money to various Jewish community offices, religious ceremonies, plans for vacant lots, travel for medical treatment and rest, kosher meat, ledgers with the amount of meat purchased in 1949 (for meat tax), correspondence from the Mayor of Baghdad regarding trash removal, financial summaries, budgets, salary reports, newspaper clipping, employee raises, purchased goods, women’s ritual purity laws, correspondence with individual rabbis, girls’ school, applications for permits, and an index of registered judges' names. There are also correspondence and flyers in Judeo-Arabic; the Judeo-Arabic flyers are from the Tomkhe Torah Society.

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Student Folders with Photographs, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 2738 · Language: Arabic

These are file folders from the Baghdadi Jewish schools containing student records including photographs, exam scores, student health records, and correspondence regarding students.

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Citizenship Correspondence between Iraqi Government and Jewish Community; Synagogue Financial Information

IJA Number: 2727 · Language: Arabic

These are documents relating to the Baghdadi Jewish community, many about Iraqi citizenship. Included are various correspondences between the Jewish community and the Iraqi government. Correspondence with the Secretary General of the Frozen Fund Administration regarding the revocation of Iraqi citizenship of employees at Jewish establishments and daily payment of workers; a letter with names and salaries of employees; a letter from the Secretariat for Monitoring and Managing the Funds of the Jews to the Jewish Hospital Council proclaiming Jewish Iraqi citizenship and permitting employers to pay the employees but freeze a percentage of their salary for the Secretariat. Correspondence with the Secretariat to Monitor and Manage the Funds of the Jews: proclaiming Iraqi Citizenship to the Directorate of Travel and Citizenship, and to the President of the Jewish Community verifying if certain people are having their Iraqi citizenship revoked; requesting the release of a Jewish community fund; the formation of a committee to manage the affairs of David Ezra Synagogue; inquires related to property; request to exempt the Jewish poor from paying tax on their belongings when leaving Iraq; a request to return a shop belonging to the Jewish community; paying the Jewish cemetery guard accumulated salaries; returning an endowed Jewish property; provisions to help the Jewish poor; releasing items belonging to Ḥevrah Ḳadishah (burial society) for Jewish burial; returning the endowed eye hospital and pharmacy; Information about Hebrew religious books in the storage of the Directorate; letters between the President of the Jewish Community and Iraqi government offices regarding exchanging information and answering inquiries, the heirs of Jewish deceased, names, Jewish hospital operations, property tax, lifting the "hand" from the Jewish community funds, and management of the Jewish community funds. Documents relating to Baghdadi Synagogues: an inventory from Mindili Synagogue; correspondence between the Committee on the Administration of Ezra Synagogue and the Directory of Rights and Commercial Matters regarding the members of Ezra Synagogue citizenship status; correspondence from the Jewish Lay Council and banks about opening a bank account for Ezra Synagogue; correspondence from the Lay Council to the Secretary General of the frozen funds regarding the name of the Ezra synagogue committee. Correspondence between the Jewish Lay Council to the General Secretariat regarding exporting 100 Jewish books to without paying for the silver cover; a reply from Municipality of Rights and Commercial Matters to permit the export of the books if it had no silver cover; the Jewish presidency’s reply that it is a family owned, there are not commercial items, and it is against the freedom of religion law. Correspondence from Rabbi Sassoon Khedouri: to the General Directorate of Import regarding Iraqi Jewish property taxes, the Jewish properties exempted from tax, hospitals, schools and orphanages; to the Chairman of the Property requesting a copy of plans and documents of properties belonging to the Jewish community; to the Director of Property Tax requesting a reduction or exemption of property tax for demolition or vacancy reasons.

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Correspondence between the Ministry of Justice and the President of the Jewish Community; School Materials

IJA Number: 2720 · Language: Arabic

These documents contain correspondence between the Iraqi Ministry of Justice and the President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad regarding Jewish community laws and administrative committee members. Other documents pertain to the Jewish schools in Baghdad. Also included is an Iraqi Government request for a copy of the Torah from the Jewish Community for a court in Basra. These documents reflect the Baghdadi Jewish community's name change to the Mosaic community.

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Archival Documents, Albert David Sasson School

IJA Number: 2718 · Language: Arabic

These are documents, including receipts from the Albert David Sasson and Menashy Selah schools, and the Tomkhe Torah Society.

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Student Folders with Photographs, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 2714 · Language: Arabic

These are student records including photographs, exam scores, primary and intermediary school certificates, disciplinary actions, and correspondence between schools, all from the Baghdadi Jewish schools.

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Books

טור אבן העזר חלק שני

IJA Number: 2627 · Language: Hebrew

This is the second volume of the Ṭur, a medieval book on Jewish law.

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Correspondence between Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools and Iraqi Government

IJA Number: 2728 · Language: Arabic

These documents from the Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools consist of correspondence from the Iraqi government regarding education statistics, certification distribution with individual student names, exam administration and schedules, lists of students with test numbers, approved songs, education laws, the grading system, a newspaper clipping about exam administration, book lists, curriculum changes and regulations, price lists, and printed curriculum for English literature, Arabic, economics, mathematics, social sciences, and Arab history.

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Invoice and Receipts, Stationary Shop

IJA Number: 2870 · Language: Arabic

This is an invoice from a stationary shop for an order of envelopes. There is a handwritten receipt for other items as well.

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