Keywords is exactly Ministry of Justice
Archival Materials

Correspondence between the Ministry of the Interior and Regional Jurisdictions

IJA Number: 2188 · Language: Arabic

These archival documents contain correspondence between the Ministry of the Interior and various regional jurisdictions, the Mosul District, the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Justice, the military court, and the office of police regarding a prisoner. The correspondence suggests the punishment was harsh and unfair and that the prisoner should be pardoned/released.

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Correspondence and Financial Information, Chief Rabbi of Baghdad

IJA Number: 1447 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community containing accounts of values, units, and shares for the Chief Rabbi. There is correspondence from the Office of Accounting to the Chief Rabbi; requests for financial information; a letter on the kosher meat tax requirement and agreement; registration of taxes/fees. There is also a contact between two parties, one being Chief Rabbi Ezra Reuben Dangoor, about selling slaughtered sheep parts.

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Correspondence between President of Baghdadi Jewish Community and Iraqi Government

IJA Number: 1546 · Language: Arabic

These documents contain correspondence between the Iraqi government and the President of the Jewish community regarding individuals within the Baghdadi Jewish community. There is also internal government correspondence between departments. Contents include: verification of religion, citizenship, addresses, death, student attendance, names of heirs, and physical exam forms. This item also contains correspondence between the Iraqi Jewish community and the Iraqi government concerning the maintenance of properties owned by the community. These documents reflect the Baghdadi Jewish community's name change to the Mosaic community.

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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 between the Ministry of Justice and the President of the Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 3717 · Language: Arabic

This item contains correspondence between the Iraqi Ministry of Justice and the President of the Baghdadi Jewish Community. The Iraqi government informs the Jewish Community that it is giving the Spiritual Council permission to carry out its responsibilities in accordance with the law.

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Correspondence between the President of the Jewish Community, Jewish Religious Court

IJA Number: 3713 · Language: Multiple Languages

This is correspondence between the President of the Jewish Community, the Jewish Religious Court, Iraqi government departments, and public and private employers regarding salaries, legal cases, payments, receipts and invoices.

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Archival Materials

School Guidelines; Ḥevrah Ḳadishah Structure; Architectural Plans, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 3684 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. The item contains instructions for school administrations concerning guidelines for students, a revised document explaining the structure and purpose of the Ḥevrah Ḳadishah (Burial Society) charitable society, and architectural sketches of a building.

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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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Verification Certificates; Financial Assistance Requests; Correspondence and Newspaper Clippings about Anti-Jewish Sentiments in Iraq

IJA Number: 2691 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. The item includes a handwritten grade book, birth and marriage certificates, and correspondence regarding requests for financial assistance from Iraqi Jewish charitable organizations. One letter is from a father requesting financial assistance from a university and the President of the Jewish Community confirming these issues. The item also contains many newspaper clippings and correspondence regarding increasing anti-Jewish sentiments and sectarianism in Iraq.

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Correspondence between Iraqi Government and Jewish Community – Citizenship Issues; Financial Matters; New Community Leaders

IJA Number: 2747 · Language: Arabic

These are archival materials from the Baghdadi Jewish community containing correspondence from the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews and the President of the Jewish Community. It includes: letters to and from the Minister of Justice concerning the death of Rabbi Sassoon Khedouri; requests for assistance from community members; elections for the Jewish community council; donation of Torahs to the Ministry of Justice’s library upon request; letters to and from the General Organization for Housing regarding the Jewish cemetery; correspondence with the Secretary of Frozen Funds regarding: the sale of frozen shares in the Times publishing company; shareholders with revoked nationality; company liquidation; and debt repayment; correspondence with the Revolutionary Command Council including letters to Saddam Hussein, then Deputy of the Revolutionary Command Council, regarding complaints about the seizure of property revenues and confiscation of a bank account belonging to Iraqi Jews; correspondence with the Director of Public Security regarding new citizenship laws; correspondence with the president of the Alliance of Non-Zionist Jews in Canada regarding his visit to Iraq; and correspondence to the United Nations, expressing the Iraqi Jewish community’s loyalty to Iraq. There is also a request to the Ministry of Information for Assyrian, Sabean, Yazidi, and Jewish holidays to be included in the annual calendar; a letter from the General Broadcasting and Television Office regarding the film, Man of Peace; a letter regarding the gift of Torah scrolls to the Jewish communities in England and Sweden; a letter to Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr (President of Iraq), complaining of the continuation of discrimination against Jews in spite of the decree to treat Iraqi Jews equally as Iraqi citizens; letters to the Ministry of the Interior regarding the freezing of bank accounts; permission to sell properties; the confiscation of a synagogue in Basrah; maintaining and revocation of Iraqi nationality; and a list of community members eligible to serve on the administrative council. There are also copies of the Iraqi Gazette from 1958, 1961 and 1973.

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Books

المجموعة الدائمة للقوانين و الانظمة العراقية الموحدة

IJA Number: 1892 · Language: Arabic

This is “The Permanent Collection of the Unified Iraqi Laws and Regulations” published by the Iraqi government Ministry of Justice. It is notated as part 12.

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Archival Materials

Legal Paperwork from the Daniel Family; Laws and Regulations

IJA Number: 1047 · Language: Arabic

This is legal paperwork from the Baghdadi Jewish Community regarding the personal property of the Daniel family including contracts, depositions, correspondence, a small blueprint, deeds, receipts, and citizenship verification. There is a printed copy of Majmū‘a, a collection of laws and regulations for the Jewish community and includes 77/1931 and 36/1931. There is a printed copy of Al-Waqā’i‘ Al-‘Irāqiyah, the official government newspaper for publishing legislation and contains Law 64/1967.

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Correspondence Regarding Legal Procedures for Community Elections and to Community Officials; Lay Council Members and Budgets

IJA Number: 3071 · Language: Arabic

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.

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New Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews; Copy of a Newspaper

IJA Number: 3117 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. They include: correspondence between the Jewish Lay Council and the Iraqi Government Administrative Office for Iraqi Jews regarding the appointing of a new administrative committee for the Iraqi Jews; a list of committee members; a copy of a newspaper titled: الجمهورية, Al-Jumhūrīyya (The Republic) Issue #1074. An article concerning elections for the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews is circled on page 4. These documents reflect the Baghdadi Jewish community's name change to the Mosaic community.

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