These are financial documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are budgetary and audit reports from the Jewish Hospitals Committee and the Jewish Lay Council.

These documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community include figures of the community income, and financial records of the Jewish Lay Council and its subsidiary organizations for the purpose of determining annual budgets.

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish schools. The documents consist of individual student records including photographs, exam scores, student certifications, admissions forms, doctor’s notes, photographs, and correspondence regarding student affairs.

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.

These archival documents contain issues of the Iraqi Gazette (Al-Waqā’i‘ Al-‘Irāqiyah), the official newspaper of the Republic of Iraq. Issues are from 1949 through 1958 (numbers 292, 4104, 2698, 2938, 2939, 3779, 3455, 3261, 3080, 3018, 2997, 2971, 2965, 2953, 2951, 2945, 2944, 2942, 2817). Included in these issues are official documents about anti-Jewish legislation and financial recourse after citizenship is revoked. There are letters included about restoration of citizenship to the Iraqi Ambassador in Lebanon; legal decisions about the nationality law; and frozen funds of the Jewish community. Also included are import regulations and trademark registrations.

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish schools. The documents consist of individual student records including photographs, exam scores, student certifications, admissions forms, letters of recommendation, applications to foreign institution, doctor’s notes, and correspondence regarding student affairs. In addition, there are several copies of the 1960-1961 Shamash Secondary School class rosters for grade/form five.

These documents include correspondence between the Iraqi government, the Education Administration Headquarters of Secondary Schools, and the Administrative Council for Iraqi Jews. The correspondence suggested curriculum adjustments, guidelines for employing teachers, and updated education policies that often mention Arab nationalism themes. Topics also include student health, a relay race course, the national anthem and other national folk song lyrics, approved books, visiting a vocational training center, scholarship criteria, field trips, requests for names of graduates, tracking test scores, and teaching pedagogy. There are also letters from the Administrative Committee discuss closing the primary grades at the Frank Iny School.

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. The item includes fundraising letters for the establishment of the Jewish Lay Council’s School Relief Committee, invoices for construction materials for repairs and utilities; budget estimates, guides for school administrators, test administration instructions, student rosters, and documents pertaining to teachers and employment issues. Correspondence is in Arabic, English, and French, and comes from Switzerland, Bombay, England, and Shanghai. There is one birth certificate from 1946.

These documents include financial receipts, including postage receipts, a bicycle purchase; bills such as power, water, and phone; community organization invoices, repairs for office equipment, construction materials, printing, office supplies, advertising, handwritten ledgers, notices for outstanding balances, community announcements in newspapers, and lists of expenditures for different items and services purchased by the Baghdadi Jewish Community. There are statements from La Société Anonyme Ottomane des Tramways Eclairages et Forces Electriques de Baghdad, the precursor to the Baghdad Light and Power company.

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.

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.

This is a comprehensive and detailed 1939-1940 budget for the Jewish Schools Committee and the Jewish Hospitals Committee.