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.

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.