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Archival Materials

President of the Baghdadi Jewish Community, Personal and Communal Documents

IJA Number: 3077 · Language: Multiple Languages

These documents contain correspondence, mostly on a personal level, of the President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad. Included are requests for a telephone to be installed in a school, teacher labor issues, student transfers, receipts and invoices, thank you notes and condolences to members of the Jewish Diaspora in Europe, America, and the Middle East. The documents include an excerpt from the 1945 edition of the Biographical Encyclopedia of the World, featuring the president of the Jewish community of Baghdad, Sassoon Khedouri; a license to import one Chevrolet car from the U.S.; a wedding invitation; and several business cards of foreign dignitaries.

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Correspondence from Baghdadi Jewish Community Including Legal Issues (Marriage, Inheritance, Endowments), Financial Matters, School Administration

IJA Number: 3712 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. They contain requests for community records and residency confirmations; wire transfers; correspondence regarding the adoption of Jewish laws in the Diaspora; communication from the Ambassador of Iraq in Rabat regarding Moroccan officials requesting information on laws applicable to the Iraqi Jewish community (customary laws pertaining to marriage, inheritance, etc.); legal agreements for engagement and marriage; requests for marriage confirmations, death certificates; employment separations; lawsuit regarding the management of an endowment; repairs to school buildings; correspondence regarding sending sefarim (Jewish religious books) to New York; letters referencing the Law of Acquisitions, 43/1934; discussions about tearing down or rebuilding a wall; invoices and accounting information from the Ezra Menahem Daniel Sports-Ground Committee; school administration; requests for vaccines; property laws; deeds; the administration of scholarships; announcements about community meetings and ceremonies; requests for food provisions for prisoners during the holidays; and requests for clarification of laws in conflict with the interim constitution of 1958. These documents reflect the Baghdadi Jewish community's name change to the Mosaic community.

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Financial Records and Receipts, Ḥevrah Ḳadishah (Burial Society) and President of the Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2731 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Ḥevrah Ḳadishah, the Baghdadi Jewish community’s Burial Society. They are primarily receipts from the Ḥevrah Ḳadishah. There are also receipts from Iraqi government agencies and various local merchants for utilities, vehicle upkeep, wire transfers, taxis, textiles, building supplies, and newspaper advertisements; rosters of salaries of officials and employees from the President of the Jewish Community; and correspondence regarding water prices.

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Correspondence from the Baghdadi Jewish Community Regarding Community Needs, Receipts, Contracting Services

IJA Number: 3696 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. The documents contain correspondence regarding members of the community needing medical help; advertising in newspapers and subscription renewals; paperwork regarding health inspections; invoices and receipts from public and private institutions for medical expenses, utilities, taxi services, and insurance policies; and an account of general contracting services performed on the Suq building.

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Correspondence Regarding Legal Procedures for Community Elections and to Community Officials; Lay Council Members and Budgets

IJA Number: 3071 · Language: Arabic

These documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community contain correspondence regarding the legal procedures for electing officials in the Jewish community. The correspondence references the statues of the Jewish community #36 (1931) and laws of the community #77 (1931); elections for the Jewish Lay Council; names of those eligible for elected office; ballots for various districts; vote tallies; meeting attendance records; and a statement from the Jewish Lay Council to the Jewish community that the president of the Jewish Lay Council is running for the position of president of the Baghdadi community. There are also letters to various community and government officials, including the head of the Jewish butchers, and foreign consular offices; several copies of a list of members of the Jewish Lay Council, 1944-1948; and references to budget planning.

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