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Contract Agreement, Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews; Fee Exemption for Burial Society

IJA Number: 2549 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community and contain a general contract agreement between the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews and a contractor, including a schedule and cost estimates. Also included is a letter from the Baghdad district office to the Iraqi Office of Transportation and Traffic Police regarding a registration fee exemption on a vehicle for the Ḥevrah Ḳadishah (Burial Society).

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Contracts to send Baghdadi Jewish Students to Study Abroad

IJA Number: 2547 · Language: Arabic

These are blank contracts for sending Baghdadi Jewish students to study abroad in England. These documents reflect the Baghdadi Jewish community's name change to the Mosaic community.

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Lawsuit Information Regarding Rent; Receipt from Furniture Dealer

IJA Number: 1432 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community regarding a lawsuit brought against a pharmacy for not paying rent. There is also a handwritten receipt from wicker furniture dealer.

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Documents about Property Owned by the Jewish Community; Endowments; Personal Will; Blueprints

IJA Number: 3735 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community and include rent contracts, documents of properties owned by the Jewish community, endowments of the Midrash Talmud Torah School, a personal will from a community member, and architectural blueprints.

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Ezra Menahem Daniel Endowment Paperwork, Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews

IJA Number: 3086 · Language: Arabic

These documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community include lease and endowment paperwork from the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews regarding the administration of charitable funds and properties from the Ezra Menahem Daniel endowment.

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Baghdadi Jewish Community Financial Information, Involvement in Iraqi Life

IJA Number: 2846 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. Included is a document encouraging the Jewish community to participate in the public relation for the well being of the government, as done in the past. This item also contains medical receipts, bills, insurance and assurance bills receipts, and financial ledgers belonging to the Baghdadi Jewish community. There is an invitation in English and Arabic for a Grand Ball given by the Ministry of Education to benefit the poor pupils of the school. This item refers to the Jewish Community as the “Mosaic Community.”

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Burial Society Building Plans, Correspondence

IJA Number: 2787 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. They contain site plans for a vacant lot and correspondence with the Ḥevrah Ḳadishah (Burial Society) with the Engineering Administration of Baghdad. There are also estimate forms, directions for technical calculations, and blueprints of the site.

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Financial Documents, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2833 · Language: Arabic

These are financial documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. They include: amounts received by the president of the community; incomes from synagogues, schools, and other community services including the Burial Society; many handwritten financial receipts and a lab form from the Meir Elias Hospital.

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Jewish Cemetery, Property Rights, Legal Paperwork, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2832 · Language: Arabic

These documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community relate to the community’s cemetery, property rights, and legal paperwork regarding land agreements.

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Jewish Schools Committee Documents

IJA Number: 2828 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Jewish Schools Committee in Baghdad and includes: the endowment information; expenses for the schools; a ledger recording names of individuals renting properties; handwritten correspondence to/from the president of the Jewish community regarding property issues.

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Rent Disputes and Agreements, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2798 · Language: Arabic

These documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community include correspondence between community lawyers and tenants of property owned by the community. In the documents, the lawyer repeatedly requests that tenants pay overdue rent and renew rental agreements.

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Contract for Construction Project, Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews

IJA Number: 2061 · Language: Arabic

This is a contract between the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews and engineers concerning a construction project. It discusses the materials to be used, contract conditions, payment arrangements, including advancements and final payment, time frame, and cost estimates for each phase of construction.

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Financial Correspondence, Bill of Sale, Rental Contracts, Ḥevrah Ḳadishah

IJA Number: 2060 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included is correspondence between Eastern Bank and the Ḥevrah Ḳadishah (Burial Society). The item also contains a bill of sale and rental contracts concerning property owned by the Ḥevrah Ḳadishah and letters confirming a community member's signature.

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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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Student Folders with Photographs, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 3775 · Language: Arabic

These are student records from the Baghdadi Jewish schools. The documents consist of individual student records including photographs, exam scores, student certifications, and letters of recommendation and applications for scholarships under the H.E. David Bequest and the Anglo-Jewish Association.

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Verification Certificates, Confirmation of Jewish Lineage, Vocations, Citizenship

IJA Number: 3757 · Language: Multiple Languages

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.

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Correspondence, Receipts, Budget Information from the Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 3081 · Language: Multiple Languages

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.

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Endowment Paperwork, Financial Information, Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews

IJA Number: 3085 · Language: Arabic

These documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community include lease and endowment paperwork from the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews. The record also includes receipts and financial correspondence. These documents reflect the Baghdadi Jewish community's name change to the Mosaic community.

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Property Records, Financial Receipts, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 3083 · Language: Arabic

This is a folder of documents pertaining to the Ezra Menahem Daniel endowment and includes items such as correspondence, property leases, and receipts. Documents refer to the Iraqi Jewish Community as the Mosaic Community.

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Documents Dealing with Rent Contracts for Property Owned by the Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2818 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community, primarily dealing with rent contracts. Included are calculation of expenses and a rent dispute that resulted from Jewish immigration from the area; an official court case letter regarding a lease dispute between a representative of the Jewish Lay Council and the decision of their case; an official court case; receipts from the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews; an official court registration of endowment of a property notarized with a wax seal; a letter from an attorney to the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews listing the expenses of the court case and requesting payment.

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School Documents, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 2857 · Language: Multiple Languages

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.

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School Documents, Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools

IJA Number: 2827 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are school documents from the Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools. Included are French exams, contracts for teachers, a short story contest rubric, English language curriculum for teaching, documents concerning registration, test administration instructions and schedules, test results, and disciplinary reports. There are also receipts from the Ezra Menahem Daniel Sports-Ground and certificates of education.

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Material Related to Leased Property and other Financial Documents, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2826 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. Included is: a list of properties belonging to the community, its annual revenue, names of tenants, and estimations on property tax; official lease contracts between tenants and owners signed by the head of the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews; correspondence from Jewish community members to the Administrative Committee requesting leases, repairs, property taxes, a reward for guarding the community’s synagogues and burial sites; a letter to the Administrative Committee to appoint Heskell Isaac to be in charge of the Jewish community’s assets, schools, synagogues, Meir Elias Hospital Endowments and Ḥevrah Ḳadishah; a list of revenues and expenses for endowed schools belonging to the Jewish community for the fiscal year 1955-1956; a letter directed to Hakham Sassoon Khedouri requesting his signature on a list of miscellaneous expenses.

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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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