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Student Folders with Photographs, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 3309 · Language: Arabic

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

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Student Folders with Photographs, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 3301 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish schools. Each file folder contains individual student records, student photographs, exam scores, and student certifications. Some folders include admissions letters, letters of reference; correspondence with various government agencies relating to students, and doctor’s notes. One letterhead is from the Dunya Bureau for Films and Cinema. Another letter is to Forest Hills High School in Forest Hills, N.Y.

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Student Folders with Photographs, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 3211 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are student files with student photographs and correspondence between the Iraqi government and various Baghdadi Jewish schools regarding exam scores, graduation confirmation, primary school certification, secondary school certification, student transfers, and admissions forms. Some student folders contain an essay written in Hebrew about Israel and the Sephardic community, a certificate of vaccination for smallpox, confirmations of citizenship, and a military conscription letter.

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Correspondence, Primarily Regarding the Jewish Hospital in Baghdad

IJA Number: 3074 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. The majority of the documents relate to the Jewish Hospital in Baghdad but included are other correspondence within the community. It also includes a letter from a German Jewish Doctor from 1933 trying to move to Baghdad.

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President of the Baghdadi Jewish Community, Personal and Communal Documents

IJA Number: 3077 · Language: Multiple Languages

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.

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Books

ספר רוח חיים חלק ראשון

IJA Number: 3528 · Language: Hebrew

This is the first of a two volume book about medicine in Judaism.

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Financial Documents, Jewish Hospitals Committee

IJA Number: 3314 · Language: Arabic

This item contains documents related to the finances of the Jewish Hospitals Committee and administrative documents about employee/employment issues, construction of a structure to house a donated X-ray machine, and a financial audit report. Also included are balance sheets, income and expense reports, and other financial information and correspondence.

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Correspondence, Receipts, Student Files, Records of Property Owned, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 3303 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. There is correspondence from the 1930s-1940s between the Jewish Lay Council, Jewish Hospitals Committee and various school administrations. Other documents include court cases, requests for financial help, and deeds and property records owned by the Baghdadi Jewish community. There are also architectural drawing plans, contracts, and correspondence discussing price negotiations. This is followed by student files from the 1960s, containing individual student records, exam scores, student certifications, admissions forms, letters of recommendation, photographs, and correspondence regarding student affairs. There is a printed booklet notating a teachers’ school service record from 1944. There are collections of receipts from the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews, the South British Insurance Company, the Rafidain Insurance Company, various local vendors and taxi services, pharmacies, utilities, as well as rosters of patient information and correspondence from the Ministry of Culture of Iranian Schools in Iraq.

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Books

ספר רפואה וחיים

IJA Number: 1090 · Language: Hebrew

This is a book about Ḳabalah, medicine, magic, and charms in Judaism. There is no publication information.

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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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Student Folders with Photographs, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 3710 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools. The documents consist of individual student records with photographs, exam scores, student certifications, recommendation letters, admissions forms, doctor’s notes, and correspondence regarding student affairs.

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Student Folders with Photographs, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 3708 · Language: Arabic

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

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Official Letters to Jewish Organizations and Government Office, President of the Jewish Community

IJA Number: 3764 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. They include correspondence from the President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad to Jewish community presidents in Sulaymaniyah, Irbil, Mosul, Basrah, Kirkuk, Fallujah, regarding condolences, regulations, hospitals, permits, religious dietary laws, smallpox, distributions to the poor, employment and unemployment, financial settlements, legal settlements, charitable donations and requests for documentation. There is also correspondence with various government and community organizations including the Office of Information – Mosul; National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Iraq; The British Bank of Iran; Office of the Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britain; Chevrolet; Iraqi Red Crescent Society; The Society for Improving the Conditions of the Blind in Iraq; French Ambassador in Iraq; The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China; The Great Synagogue of Baghdad; and the President of the Catholic Diaspora. The item also includes the newspapers: الزمان (Al-Zamān), Issue #4764 from May 1, 1953; and الحوادث (Al-Ḥawādth), Issue #3096 from 1953.

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Correspondence from Baghdadi Jewish Community Including Legal Issues (Marriage, Inheritance, Endowments), Financial Matters, School Administration

IJA Number: 3712 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. They contain requests for community records and residency confirmations; wire transfers; correspondence regarding the adoption of Jewish laws in the Diaspora; communication from the Ambassador of Iraq in Rabat regarding Moroccan officials requesting information on laws applicable to the Iraqi Jewish community (customary laws pertaining to marriage, inheritance, etc.); legal agreements for engagement and marriage; requests for marriage confirmations, death certificates; employment separations; lawsuit regarding the management of an endowment; repairs to school buildings; correspondence regarding sending sefarim (Jewish religious books) to New York; letters referencing the Law of Acquisitions, 43/1934; discussions about tearing down or rebuilding a wall; invoices and accounting information from the Ezra Menahem Daniel Sports-Ground Committee; school administration; requests for vaccines; property laws; deeds; the administration of scholarships; announcements about community meetings and ceremonies; requests for food provisions for prisoners during the holidays; and requests for clarification of laws in conflict with the interim constitution of 1958. These documents reflect the Baghdadi Jewish community's name change to the Mosaic community.

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Student Folders with Photographs, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 3695 · Language: Arabic

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

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Student Folders with Photographs, Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools

IJA Number: 2854 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools in Baghdad. The documents consist of individual student records including photographs, exam scores, exam booklets, student certifications, admissions forms, doctor’s notes, and correspondence regarding student affairs.

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Correspondences Regarding Rental Properties and Financial Assistance for the Poor, Baghdadi Jewish Community Committees

IJA Number: 2815 · Language: Arabic

This archival material includes: a letter from the lawyer of the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews to a judge regarding permission to rent an endowment property for 21 years; letters from women, students, and a man to the Jewish Administrative Committee and to Rabbi Sassoon Khedouri asking for charity and an increase in monthly allowance; a letter from a lawyer to Rabbi Khedouri to ask for help for a man who is losing his sight with a doctor's report to confirm it.

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Doctors Notes, Class Rosters, Frank Iny School

IJA Number: 2805 · Language: Arabic

These documents from the Frank Iny School consist of doctor’s notes for students and the class roster for the pre-school, kindergarten, first, second, third, and fourth grades/forms 1964-1965.

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Student Folders with Photographs, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 2745 · Language: Arabic

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

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Student Folders with Photographs, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 2636 · Language: Arabic

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, and correspondence regarding student affairs.

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Books

ספר מראה הילדים

IJA Number: 1489 · Language: Hebrew

This book consists of Jewish medicinal remedies and recipes relating to Rabbinic Judaism.

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Correspondence about Anti-Jewish Sentiments, Education Information; Statement Condemning Zionism

IJA Number: 3785 · Language: Arabic

Included in this item are correspondence from the Baghdadi Jewish community to the Iraqi and British governments concerning increasing anti-Jewish and sectarian harassment experienced by community members, correspondence signed by Sir Kinahan Cornwallis, and summaries of the Jewish Daily Post. This item also contains documents describing the arrest of individuals, restrictions on movement, and a violent attack on the Jewish residents of a village near Mosul in early 1941. Also in the documents are: newspaper clippings announcing students accepted into different institutions of higher education; a section of a 1948 newspaper with articles pertaining to the Arab-Israeli War of 1948; documents discussing education issues, such as Baghdadi Jewish students encountering difficulty in being accepted to certain state schools and failing tests at an unusually high rate, enrollment rates in schools, and teachers at Jewish schools suspected of propagating Zionism; a file folder with a student record, photograph, doctor’s notes, and examination results; a statement condemning Zionism signed by several prominent members of the Baghdadi Jewish community addressed to the Secretary of the League of Nations, Geneva.

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Financial Information, Baghdadi Jewish Community Schools, Endowments, Hospitals

IJA Number: 3726 · Language: Arabic

These are receipts, bills, and expense reports pertaining to schools, endowments, and hospitals operated by the Baghdadi Jewish community.

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Student Folders with Photographs, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 3213 · Language: Arabic

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

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