Archival Materials

Legal Documents Related to the Disbursement and Management of Endowments, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2744 · Language: Arabic

This is archival material from the Baghdadi Jewish Community containing legal documents related to the disbursement and management of several different endowments for Baghdadi Jewish institutions such as the Albert David Sasson School, Meir Elias Hospital, and Reemah Kadoorie Eye Hospital. There are original deeds and contracts regarding property distribution, the distribution of waqfs (endowments), and tapu sanad deeds (state-owned land granting occupancy).

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Verification Certificates; Financial Assistance Requests; Correspondence and Newspaper Clippings about Anti-Jewish Sentiments in Iraq

IJA Number: 2691 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. The item includes a handwritten grade book, birth and marriage certificates, and correspondence regarding requests for financial assistance from Iraqi Jewish charitable organizations. One letter is from a father requesting financial assistance from a university and the President of the Jewish Community confirming these issues. The item also contains many newspaper clippings and correspondence regarding increasing anti-Jewish sentiments and sectarianism in Iraq.

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Student’s Handwriting Practice Notebook

IJA Number: 2687 · Language: Arabic

This is a student's Arabic handwriting practice notebook. Practice sentences include "The only leader is 'Abd al-Karim Qasim" and “Baghdad is the capital of Iraq.”

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مجموعة: قانون الطائفة الاسرائيلية رقم (٧٧) لسنة ١٩٣١ ونظام الطائفة الاسرائيلية رقم (٣٦) لسنة ١٩٣١

IJA Number: 2684 · Language: Arabic

This is a booklet titled: "The Jewish Community Law # 77 and the Jewish Community Statue #36 for the year 1931" and is printed in both Arabic and Judeo-Arabic. The laws were published in an Iraqi newspaper in 1931.

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Student Rosters, Correspondence to Parents, Tuition Information, Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools

IJA Number: 2743 · Language: Arabic

These are school records from the Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools in Baghdad. Included are exam and class schedules, class rosters, thank you notes for donations, receipts, correspondence to parents, tuition information, exam procedures, merchant invoices, and employment offers.

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Correspondence between Iraqi Government and Jewish Community – Citizenship Issues; Financial Matters; New Community Leaders

IJA Number: 2747 · Language: Arabic

These are archival materials from the Baghdadi Jewish community containing correspondence from the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews and the President of the Jewish Community. It includes: letters to and from the Minister of Justice concerning the death of Rabbi Sassoon Khedouri; requests for assistance from community members; elections for the Jewish community council; donation of Torahs to the Ministry of Justice’s library upon request; letters to and from the General Organization for Housing regarding the Jewish cemetery; correspondence with the Secretary of Frozen Funds regarding: the sale of frozen shares in the Times publishing company; shareholders with revoked nationality; company liquidation; and debt repayment; correspondence with the Revolutionary Command Council including letters to Saddam Hussein, then Deputy of the Revolutionary Command Council, regarding complaints about the seizure of property revenues and confiscation of a bank account belonging to Iraqi Jews; correspondence with the Director of Public Security regarding new citizenship laws; correspondence with the president of the Alliance of Non-Zionist Jews in Canada regarding his visit to Iraq; and correspondence to the United Nations, expressing the Iraqi Jewish community’s loyalty to Iraq. There is also a request to the Ministry of Information for Assyrian, Sabean, Yazidi, and Jewish holidays to be included in the annual calendar; a letter from the General Broadcasting and Television Office regarding the film, Man of Peace; a letter regarding the gift of Torah scrolls to the Jewish communities in England and Sweden; a letter to Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (President of Iraq), complaining of the continuation of discrimination against Jews in spite of the decree to treat Iraqi Jews equally as Iraqi citizens; letters to the Ministry of the Interior regarding the freezing of bank accounts; permission to sell properties; the confiscation of a synagogue in Basrah; maintaining and revocation of Iraqi nationality; and a list of community members eligible to serve on the administrative council. There are also copies of the Iraqi Gazette from 1958, 1961 and 1973.

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לוח עבור

IJA Number: 2755 · Language: Multiple Languages

This is an almanac from 5732 (1971 – 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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Correspondence and Receipts, Hospitals in Baghdad

IJA Number: 2741 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are letters concerning patient admittance procedures, medical receipts, and responsibility for a patient's fees.

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ספר תהילים

IJA Number: 1560 · Language: Hebrew

This is a book of Psalms with commentary published in Jerusalem.

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Blank Tickets from the Meir Tawieg Synagogue

IJA Number: 2760 · Language: Judeo-Arabic

This is a booklet of blank tickets in Judeo-Arabic from the Meir Tawieg Synagogue in Baghdad.

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מחזור לראש השנה

IJA Number: 1561 · Language: Hebrew

This is a part of a three volume prayer book set for festivals printed in Vienna. This volume is for the Jewish New Year in the Sephardic custom.

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Correspondence, Insurance Receipts, Rental Agreement, Electricity Bills, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2733 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are rental agreements between the President of the Jewish community and various community members; ledgers of property holdings; correspondence regarding the distribution of endowments to schools and hospitals; legal paperwork for establishment of an endowment; insurance policy invoices from the South British Insurance Company, L’Union and the Iraq Insurance Office; insurance policies issued by the Legal & General Assurance Society Limited and the South British Insurance Company, electricity and water bills; and contracts. The insurance policies cover everything from fire and auto to typewriters and Persian rugs. Many of the documents are administered by the Jewish Lay Council, overseen by Eliyahu Hiam Youfek or Heskel David Shemtob.

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[Book Section - Prayer Book]

IJA Number: 273 · Language: Hebrew

This is part of a prayer book for the three pilgrimage festivals. There is no publication information.

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Filled Out Receipt Booklet

IJA Number: 2725 · Language: Arabic

This is a filled out receipt booklet for lending money from a merchant in the Shorja Market.

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مجموعة: قانون الطائفة الاسرائيلية رقم (٧٧) لسنة ١٩٣١; ونظام الطائفة الاسرائيلية رقم (٣٦) لسنة ١٩٣١

IJA Number: 2722 · Language: Arabic

This is a booklet titled: "The Jewish Community Law # 77 and the Jewish Community System #36 for the year 1931" and is printed in both Arabic and Judeo-Arabic. The laws were published in an Iraqi newspaper in 1931.

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אור גדול ספר בראשית

IJA Number: 1558 · Language: Hebrew

This is the book of Genesis with the Aramaic translation and commentaries and also includes the Hafṭarot and the morning service for Shabat.

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Financial Information Including Ledgers and Organization of the Ḥevrah Ḳadishah

IJA Number: 2715 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community that include: information about properties owned by a deceased philanthropist; a document from the Court of Appeals; a detailed statement outlining the purpose and organization of the Ḥevrah Ḳadishah, the Burial Society; and several handwritten financial ledgers.

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Correspondence from the President of the Jewish Community Regarding Schools, Laws Establishing Organizations, Hospitals

IJA Number: 2736 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community committees and associations through which the Jewish community conducted its business; included for each committee are names of chairmen, board of directors, and secretaries. The documents contain correspondence between the President of the Jewish Community and various Jewish schools in Baghdad, including Frank Iny, Tomkhe Tora Society (teaching Torah to poor children), and the Midrash Talmuh Torah Schools. Subjects include classroom assignments, teacher salaries, requests for Hebrew Bibles from the British and Foreign Bible Society in London for schools in Baghdad. There is also correspondence with the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior regarding the laws of establishing organizations, and documents outlining the arrangement of various organizations including the Dorshe Tora Society (teaching Torah to adults) and Ozer Dalim (committee for helping the poor); correspondence between the Jewish Lay Council and the Baghdad Chamber of Commerce, the Ḥevrah Ḳadishah (Burial Society), Meir Elias Hospital and the Jewish Hospitals Committee; correspondence regarding the training of ambulance attendants, the annual report of the Red Crescent Society from 1947, and lists of the heads and structure of Jewish organizations, hospitals and schools. These committees were all vital in the daily life of Baghdadi Jews.

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Wedding Registries, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2719 · Language: Judeo-Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community, all in Judeo-Arabic, with some annotations in Arabic. This is a ledger of the wedding registries for the community from 1947. Columns included are names of the bride and groom, the amount of the ketubah (Jewish marriage contract) dowry, date, fees paid (1%) of the dowry to the Jewish community. The fees will be to finance the Jewish Hospitals in Baghdad.

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סדר מנחה ועבית לשלש רגלים

IJA Number: 2757 · Language: Hebrew

This is a prayer book printed in Baghdad for the three pilgrimage holidays.

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ספר זרע קודש מצבתה

IJA Number: 2985 · Language: Hebrew

This is a book about Ḳabalah. There is no publication information.

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טור אבן העזר

IJA Number: 2882 · Language: Hebrew

This is part of the Ṭur, a medieval book on Jewish law. There is no publication information.

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Chemistry Notes for the Second Year Intermediate, Frank Iny School

IJA Number: 2712 · Language: English

These are printed chemistry notes for the Frank Iny School in Baghdad. There are many copies of these notes in the collection.

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[Book - Responsa]

IJA Number: 265 · Language: Hebrew

This is a collection of responsa on Jewish law. There is no publication information.

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