These are archival documents in a ring binder with handwritten title “Lease Contracts of Shamash Endowments for the End of the Year 1953.” It contains primarily official lease contracts and handwritten rosters of an inventory of leased properties. It also includes old contracts for 1950-1951.

These are blank exams from the Frank Iny School issued between 1957 and 1963. The exams are: Entrance Exam to the First Intermediate, French Section, Mathematics, 1957-1960; Entrance Exam to the First Intermediate, English Grammar, 1957-1960, 1962-1963; Entrance Exam to the First Intermediate, French Grammar, 1957-1960, 1963; Passing Exams, French Section, Calculus, 1961-1963.

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community and include death certificates, birth certificates, marriage, and divorce documentation. This item also contains citizenship paperwork, documents certifying the surrendering of Iraqi citizenship in order to emigrate abroad, and letters of recommendation written for former employees. Many of the letters include photographs.

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish schools. The documents consist of individual student records including photographs, exam scores, student certifications, admissions forms, letters of recommendation, applications to foreign institution, doctor’s notes, and correspondence regarding student affairs. In addition, there are several copies of the 1960-1961 Shamash Secondary School class rosters for grade/form five.

These documents include correspondence between the Iraqi government, the Education Administration Headquarters of Secondary Schools, and the Administrative Council for Iraqi Jews. The correspondence suggested curriculum adjustments, guidelines for employing teachers, and updated education policies that often mention Arab nationalism themes. Topics also include student health, a relay race course, the national anthem and other national folk song lyrics, approved books, visiting a vocational training center, scholarship criteria, field trips, requests for names of graduates, tracking test scores, and teaching pedagogy. There are also letters from the Administrative Committee discuss closing the primary grades at the Frank Iny School.

These are archival documents containing correspondence between the Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools and the Directorate of Education in Baghdad regarding student roster from the school years 1965-1969, students sitting for exams, and the administration of exams. The rosters include: student names, current grade, transfer school, number and date of the transfer document, and a previous failing year if applicable. There are also comprehensive ledgers recording all examination scores.

This is a tractate of the Babylonian Talmud printed in Lemberg. It discusses Jewish legal issues.

This is the biblical book of Psalms including commentaries. There is no publication information.

These documents include school materials such as exams, curricula, syllabi, and teacher's guides for an English course. The item also contains notifications put out by the Iraqi Ministry of Education concerning regulations for test administration, hiring approvals, requests for information concerning schools' students and graduates, and instructions for filing and transferring students' records.

This item contains correspondence between the President of the Baghdadi Jewish Community and the Iraqi General Security Directorate's Department of Frozen Assets. The correspondence includes requests from the government for the Jewish community to furnish records and information about community members, citizenship and religion verification, family members, and inheritance. There is a hand-drawn chart with a list of names of community members.

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community, comprised of birth, engagement, marriage, divorce, and death certificates; confirmations of Jewish lineage, vocations, ethnicity, and citizenship. Included are betrothal agreements, a hospital issued birth certificate, and a ‘specimen signature’ verifying an individual’s signature. Certificates were issued in 1950 and cover the 1890s-1950.

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish schools of course notes from the Frank Iny School for 1959-1960. There are economics notes in Arabic and chemistry notes in English.

These are archival documents from the Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools. Included are: subject notes for organic chemistry, mathematics; biology, and physics; blank grading rubrics; various examinations; translations between English and Arabic for mathematic terms; a form letter from principal Abdullah S. Obadiah for student requirements. Many of the documents had duplicate copies. Not all the subject notes are complete.

This item contains requests from the Iraqi government for information from the Baghdadi Jewish community concerning deceased persons and death certificates; inheritance information; keys to specific properties; and citizenship statuses of members of the Baghdadi Jewish community.

These are archival documents from the Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary schools. The documents consist of enrollment rosters and examination records from both schools for all grades from 1952-1961. There is also correspondence regarding exam administration and regulations, identification verification for students taking exams, and general student affairs. There is one unrelated document which is either a marriage or engagement certificate from 1954.

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. They contain correspondence regarding marriages, divorces, civil disputes; the birthday celebrations of the Iraqi king, responses to inquires about the treatment of Iraqi Jews under Iraq’s citizenship laws, the history of Jews in Iraq, and the provision of Jewish artifacts to the Iraqi Museum. There are receipts for furniture stores and other vendors, invoices; budget allocations, deficits, and planning for various community organizations and institutions; ritual slaughtering administration, names of butchers with the numbers of animals slaughtered, names of community organization members, ledgers of payments for goods or fees, building plans, provisions for school children, concerns over hospital food distribution, blanket distribution to the poor, receptions, meetings, shipment orders, import and export of goods, the care of orphans, and a census on the number of synagogues in Baghdad in 1945 (40). There are copies of a printed text titled “Appeal to Save the Children.” Letters include: the President of the Jewish Community to the Controller of Foodstuffs in Baghdad thanking the Controller for the allotment of sugar and tea for the students at the Rahel Shamoon School; addressing complaints at the Meir Elias Hospital in Baghdad; purchasing blankets for the poor via the Poor Welfare Society; sending money rather than clothes from an importer in New York City to the poor in Baghdad since clothing costs have gone up.

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish schools. They contain printed booklets of school records, printed booklets for student awards ceremonies for the 1960-1961 and 1961-1962 academic years, recognizing students from Shamash Secondary and Frank Iny Schools; school regulations and requirements for certificates; curriculum; book and vocabulary lists; exams in Arabic and French; correspondence regarding communal laws; a building contract; blank student transfer, teacher personnel paperwork, and transcript templates; and a history of Iraq in French.These documents reflect the Baghdadi Jewish community's name change to the Mosaic community.

These are documents from the Frank Iny School and Shamash Secondary School. Many of the documents are correspondence between the school administrations and the Iraq Ministry of Education. The documents include rosters of students attending these two schools, students permitted to take exams, instructions to both teachers and students concerning the administration of the exams, exam results, and grade-books.

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.

This is a publication from the Palestinian Studies Institute. There is very little publication information.

These are General Certificate of Education Mathematics exams administered by the University of London from the 1950s - 1970s. Some of the exams are notated by students attempting the examples.

This is part of a commentary on Jewish literature. It is likely part of the ʻEn Ya‘aḳov series, but there is no publication information.

This is the Arabic translation of the book October Earthquake: Yom Kippur War 1973, originally written in Hebrew by Zeev Schiff. The translation was done by the Hebrew Department at the Center of Palestinian Studies, Baghdad University in 1975. The book is about the Israeli military.

This is a collection of newspaper clippings in Arabic. Articles include content such as: Anti-Jewish themes; the Iraqi government's response to Jewish emigration; Jews in Muslim and/or Arab countries; citizenship laws and the abrogation of citizenship; Zionism; Anti-Jewish legislation. The newspapers are: النباء (Al-Nabā’); الامة (Al-‘Umma); الحصون (Al-Ḥaṣūn); اليقظة (Al-Yaqaẓa/Al-Yaqẓa); الدخبار (Al-Dakhbār); لواء الاستقلال (Lawā’ Al-Istiqlāl); الزمان (Al-Zamān); الحواداث (Al-Ḥawādth); الدفة (Al-Dafah); الاخبار (Al-Akbār); النهار (Al-Nahār); الفخ (Al-Fakh); الاراء (Al-Arā’)