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The Jerusalem Amulet: A Guard for Pregnant Women
IJA Number: 1895 ·
Language: Hebrew
This is a flier with astrological signs and important Jewish images. It is likely geared towards pregnant women; the title, קמיע ירושלמית שמירה ליולדת (Ḳameʻa Yerushalmit Shrirah le-Yuledet), translates as "The Jerusalem Amulet: A Guard for Pregnant Women." There are several copies in the collection.
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Correspondence between the Meir Elias Hospital and the Ministry of Justice
IJA Number: 664 ·
Language: Arabic
This is one typed sheet of correspondence between the Meir Elias Hospital and the Ministry of Justice regarding the endowment of the hospital.
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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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Books
לב העיברי
IJA Number: 1707 ·
Language: Hebrew
This is a section of a book that is a polemic against Reform Judaism.
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مجموعة: قانون الطائفة الاسرائيلية رقم (٧٧) لسنة ١٩٣١ ونظام الطائفة الاسرائيلية رقم (٣٦) لسنة ١٩٣١
IJA Number: 2889 ·
Language: Arabic
This is a booklet titled: "The Jewish Community Law # 77 and the Jewish Community Statue #36 for the year 1931" and is printed in both Arabic and Judeo-Arabic. The laws were published in an Iraqi newspaper in 1931.
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مجموعة: قانون الطائفة الاسرائيلية رقم (٧٧) لسنة ١٩٣١ ونظام الطائفة الاسرائيلية رقم (٣٦) لسنة ١٩٣١
IJA Number: 2772 ·
Language: Arabic
This is a booklet titled: "The Jewish Community Law # 77 and the Jewish Community Statue #36 for the year 1931" and is printed in both Arabic and Judeo-Arabic. The laws were published in an Iraqi newspaper in 1931.
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مجموعة: قانون الطائفة الاسرائيلية رقم (٧٧) لسنة ١٩٣١ ونظام الطائفة الاسرائيلية رقم (٣٦) لسنة ١٩٣١
IJA Number: 2684 ·
Language: Arabic
This is a booklet titled: "The Jewish Community Law # 77 and the Jewish Community Statue #36 for the year 1931" and is printed in both Arabic and Judeo-Arabic. The laws were published in an Iraqi newspaper in 1931.
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مجموعة: قانون الطائفة الاسرائيلية رقم (٧٧) لسنة ١٩٣١; ونظام الطائفة الاسرائيلية رقم (٣٦) لسنة ١٩٣١
IJA Number: 2722 ·
Language: Arabic
This is a booklet titled: "The Jewish Community Law # 77 and the Jewish Community System #36 for the year 1931" and is printed in both Arabic and Judeo-Arabic. The laws were published in an Iraqi newspaper in 1931.
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مجموعة: قانون الطائفة الاسرائيلية رقم (٧٧) لسنة ١٩٣١ ونظام الطائفة الاسرائيلية رقم (٣٦) لسنة ١٩٣١
IJA Number: 2683 ·
Language: Arabic
This is a booklet titled: "The Jewish Community Law # 77 and the Jewish Community Statue #36 for the year 1931" and is printed in both Arabic and Judeo-Arabic. The laws were published in an Iraqi newspaper in 1931.
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Ritual Text in Printed Hebrew
IJA Number: 2653 ·
Language: Hebrew
This is part of a page of printed Hebrew. Its style is similar to religious texts found in prayer books and amulets.
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Books
[Book about Israel, American and French Jewry]
IJA Number: 2357 ·
Language: Arabic
This is part of a book that discusses Israel, and American and French Jewry. There is no publication information.
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[Book Section - Judaic Material - Jewish Life]
IJA Number: 245 ·
Language: Arabic
This is a book published in Arabic that is severely damaged. It mentions essential components of Judaism and discusses the Book of Psalms. There is no publication information.
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Letter Regarding Kosher Meat Tax
IJA Number: 1450 ·
Language: Arabic
This is one letter from the President of the Jewish Community to the Jewish Lay Council regarding the kosher meat tax.
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