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Verification Certificates, Employee Recommendations, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 3318 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are documents, including correspondence, from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are birth, marriage, divorce, and death certificates as well as letters of recommendations for former employees of the Jewish community. Some certificates are written in English; when in Arabic, the certificates often list the names in Hebrew.

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Verification Certificates, Correspondence, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 3748 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are certificates for birth, engagement, marriage, divorce, and death of community members. There is correspondence from the President of the Jewish Community regarding financial hardships, marriage disputes, medical assistance needs and travel for medical treatment, and confirmations of character, identity or citizenship. There are also documents confirming religious education and births in other countries including Austria, Greece, and Romania. Birth certificates verifying birth dates go as far back as the 1870s.

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Verification Certificates, Confirmations of Members Vocations, Lineages, Citizenship

IJA Number: 1454 · Language: Arabic

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. Certificates were issued in 1950 and cover the 1890s-1950. Some of the certificates have names written in Hebrew.

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President of the Baghdadi Jewish Community: Correspondence, Invoices, Legal Matters

IJA Number: 3781 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. They include correspondence between the President of the Jewish community and Iraqi government agencies; invoices from both private companies and government utilities; an appeal from the French Sisters Convent for a hospital building fund; letters from Al-Amir Sporting – Baghdad and the Orient Trading Corp. Ltd.; notes from the Eastern Bank, Ltd., the Ottoman Bank, and the Bank of Iraq; responses to request for information on specific individuals; an index; legal issues regarding assets; records of loans and beneficiaries for 1970 and 1975. There are also birth, engagement, marriage, and death certificates; on some of the certificates, the names are listed in Hebrew. For one of the death confirmation certificates, the President of the Jewish community lists the family of the deceased.

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Verification Certificates of Baghdadi Jewish Community Members; Member Lists, Financial Ledgers, Jewish Lay Council

IJA Number: 3112 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community comprised of marriage, divorce, birth, and death certificates and confirmations of Jewish lineage; certificates cover the 1910s-1920s. In the Jewish marriage certificates, “Miss” is added before the woman’s name if it is her first marriage; “Divorcee” is added before the woman’s name if she is divorced. There are also lists of members of the Jewish Lay Council, 1936-1940, and financial ledgers listing original purchase price, original owners, and sale price. There is also a complaint letter from a Muslim tenant asking for compensation, and a letter from a Muslim land owner offering to lease land to the Jewish community for building a hospital.

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Correspondence between Baghdadi Jewish Community Organizations and Iraqi Government, Primarily Regarding Financial Matters

IJA Number: 2777 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community relating to financial matters. Included are correspondence between the government and the Jewish community about the frozen assets of an Iraqi-Jewish community member who lost his citizenship, notification of a teacher's retirement, inheritance issues, and the selling of the Burial Society’s car due to the decline of the community.

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Tenant Requests; Verification of Community Members

IJA Number: 2716 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community containing: notes from tenants requesting fixing a wall and other renting matter; a letter from Rabbi Sassoon Khedouri to the Directorate of Travel and Nationality Police regarding the verification of women's names, and notes regarding documentation of community member’s death.

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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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Correspondence between the President of the Baghdadi Jewish Community and the Iraqi Government

IJA Number: 2813 · Language: Arabic

This is correspondence between the President of the Baghdadi Jewish Community and the Iraqi government regarding identification of community members. The correspondence includes confirmation of death and citizenship regarding inheritance issues. These documents reflect the Baghdadi Jewish community's name change to the Mosaic community.

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Requests for Visas; Verification Certificates, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2841 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are correspondence with community members asking for assistance and visas; birth, life, betrothal, marriage, divorce, widowhood, and death certificates. Some of the verification certificates include names written in Hebrew. One of the letters from the president of the Lay Council in Baghdad is to a Rabbi in New York City about the betrothal of Baghdadi woman to an American man; other letters are confirming the death of a husband and the widow status of a wife and family in need of financial assistance.

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