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Ottoman Bank Pass Book for the Jewish Lay Council

IJA Number: 3373 · Language: English

This is a pass book from the Ottoman Bank for the Jewish Lay Council in Baghdad.

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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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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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Financial Information, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 3076 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are: financial records of the Iraqi Jewish Community with receipts for financial transactions; payment of bills; purchase of materials and services; financial disbursements to the poor.

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Correspondence Regarding Wills, Estates, and Trusts of Community Members; Community Establishments Receiving Funds

IJA Number: 3322 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. Included is correspondence regarding the wills, estates, and trusts of several wealthy community members (Sir Ezra David, Raphael Aaron Gubbay) and where their money is going within the community. Correspondence is between community leaders, family members, and attorneys regarding splitting up of money and receipts of receiving funds.

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Bank Records and Statements

IJA Number: 3721 · Language: Arabic

These are bank records, statements, and receipts belonging to a specific, unnamed company.

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Correspondence regarding Jews being Harassed by Iraqi Government; Studying Abroad in London; Requests for Finical Assistance; Income Tax Reports

IJA Number: 3697 · Language: Multiple Languages

This item includes documents detailing internal administrative matters of the Baghdadi Jewish community such as employment actions, resignations, letters of recommendation, property management, and decisions of the organization. There are also requests for financial assistance and other personal matters, letters from members of the Baghdadi Jewish community to the Jewish Lay Council about increasingly harsh treatment by the government, and reports of individuals being arbitrarily arrested and imprisoned. Other documents include correspondence to the British government to organize a Passover Seder for Jewish soldiers, scholarships to study in British schools, Baghdadi Jews abrogating their citizenship and emigrating abroad, the collection of donations for Palestinian refugees and wounded soldiers, lists of members of the Baghdadi Jewish community in detention facilities, and financial documents such as income tax reports and receipts.

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Correspondence, Jewish Religious Court

IJA Number: 3094 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are legal documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. The files contain records and correspondence from the Jewish Religious courts pertaining to legal issues concerning members of the Jewish community.

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Correspondence Regarding Rules of Committee Elections

IJA Number: 3113 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. They include correspondence between the Iraqi Ministry of Justice, the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews, and the President of the Jewish Community regarding the rules for the election of committee members, elections and resignations, travel of committee members, endowments, and financial payments. These documents reflect the Baghdadi Jewish community's name change to the Mosaic community.

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President of the Baghdadi Jewish Community: Correspondence, Invoices, Legal Matters

IJA Number: 3781 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. They include correspondence between the President of the Jewish community and Iraqi government agencies; invoices from both private companies and government utilities; an appeal from the French Sisters Convent for a hospital building fund; letters from Al-Amir Sporting – Baghdad and the Orient Trading Corp. Ltd.; notes from the Eastern Bank, Ltd., the Ottoman Bank, and the Bank of Iraq; responses to request for information on specific individuals; an index; legal issues regarding assets; records of loans and beneficiaries for 1970 and 1975. There are also birth, engagement, marriage, and death certificates; on some of the certificates, the names are listed in Hebrew. For one of the death confirmation certificates, the President of the Jewish community lists the family of the deceased.

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Telegrams To and From Nazih al-Swaid Co., Ltd

IJA Number: 3780 · Language: Multiple Languages

This is a group of telegrams about business transactions, including travel plans and financial confirmations. Most seem to be from the same company, the Nazih al-Swaid Co., Ltd., and include information about sugar transactions, oil, financial transactions, and construction plans. Many offer well wishes for the new years and holidays and concerns of health of family members and business partners. The travel plans include when someone is arriving in a city (which flight or train) and what hotel that person is staying at or if travel arrangements need to be made. The correspondence is to and from Baghdad and other Iraqi cities (Basrah, Mosul, Kirkuk), cities in Germany (Dusseldorf, Cologne), Teheran (Iran), Istanbul, London, Amsterdam, Vienna, Paris, cities in Italy (Rome), Switzerland, New York, Los Angeles, Beirut (Lebanon), Damascus (Syria), Saudi Arabia, Tripoli (Libya) and Amman (Jordan). Telegrams are in English, Arabic, French, and German.

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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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Correspondence Regarding Standardized Exams, Shamash Secondary School

IJA Number: 3707 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish schools. They contain correspondence regarding payments for the SAT and Achievement Tests between the president of the Jewish community, the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, N.J., the Bank of Iraq, and the principal of the Shamash Secondary School. There are also several brochure publications regarding administration of standardized tests, advertisements for supplemental test preparation, generic correspondence from the Educational Testing Services, forms assessing English language competency, and copies of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) exam for 1964.

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Financial Ledger

IJA Number: 3777 · Language: English

This is a financial ledger from a company in Baghdad. There are columns for kind of goods, cost and total, name of supplies, name of agent, telephone number, insurance agency, bank, when the line of credit opened, extensions of lines of credit, shipment and carrier, and remarks (if and when it was sold; calculations). Suppliers are from Tokyo and Italy, and the orders are for fabrics.

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Correspondence Regarding Tenants in Endowed Properties, Requests for Financial Assistance

IJA Number: 3107 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents in a file folder from the Baghdadi Jewish community containing: correspondence to the head of the Administrative Committee for the Jewish community regarding tenants and endowed properties including disputes, complaints, warnings, and payments; letters sent to the President of the Jewish Community from needy people asking for financial help, the requests were fulfilled after the verification of each case.

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Receipts and Invoices, Frank Iny School

IJA Number: 2835 · Language: Arabic

These are financial documents from the Frank Iny schools. They are promissory notes from the school, and receipts and invoices from a variety of vendors for construction and maintenance work, book orders, water, electricity, toys, office and school supplies, and printing.

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Correspondence among Jewish Community Committees – Financial Matters, Salaries, Budgets

IJA Number: 2740 · Language: Arabic

This is archival material from the Baghdadi Jewish Community that contains correspondence between various Jewish community groups and government offices. Topics include: increases in monthly salaries, the allocation of money to various Jewish community offices, religious ceremonies, plans for vacant lots, travel for medical treatment and rest, kosher meat, ledgers with the amount of meat purchased in 1949 (for meat tax), correspondence from the Mayor of Baghdad regarding trash removal, financial summaries, budgets, salary reports, newspaper clipping, employee raises, purchased goods, women’s ritual purity laws, correspondence with individual rabbis, girls’ school, applications for permits, and an index of registered judges' names. There are also correspondence and flyers in Judeo-Arabic; the Judeo-Arabic flyers are from the Tomkhe Torah Society.

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Citizenship Correspondence between Iraqi Government and Jewish Community; Synagogue Financial Information

IJA Number: 2727 · Language: Arabic

These are documents relating to the Baghdadi Jewish community, many about Iraqi citizenship. Included are various correspondences between the Jewish community and the Iraqi government. Correspondence with the Secretary General of the Frozen Fund Administration regarding the revocation of Iraqi citizenship of employees at Jewish establishments and daily payment of workers; a letter with names and salaries of employees; a letter from the Secretariat for Monitoring and Managing the Funds of the Jews to the Jewish Hospital Council proclaiming Jewish Iraqi citizenship and permitting employers to pay the employees but freeze a percentage of their salary for the Secretariat. Correspondence with the Secretariat to Monitor and Manage the Funds of the Jews: proclaiming Iraqi Citizenship to the Directorate of Travel and Citizenship, and to the President of the Jewish Community verifying if certain people are having their Iraqi citizenship revoked; requesting the release of a Jewish community fund; the formation of a committee to manage the affairs of David Ezra Synagogue; inquires related to property; request to exempt the Jewish poor from paying tax on their belongings when leaving Iraq; a request to return a shop belonging to the Jewish community; paying the Jewish cemetery guard accumulated salaries; returning an endowed Jewish property; provisions to help the Jewish poor; releasing items belonging to Ḥevrah Ḳadishah (burial society) for Jewish burial; returning the endowed eye hospital and pharmacy; Information about Hebrew religious books in the storage of the Directorate; letters between the President of the Jewish Community and Iraqi government offices regarding exchanging information and answering inquiries, the heirs of Jewish deceased, names, Jewish hospital operations, property tax, lifting the "hand" from the Jewish community funds, and management of the Jewish community funds. Documents relating to Baghdadi Synagogues: an inventory from Mindili Synagogue; correspondence between the Committee on the Administration of Ezra Synagogue and the Directory of Rights and Commercial Matters regarding the members of Ezra Synagogue citizenship status; correspondence from the Jewish Lay Council and banks about opening a bank account for Ezra Synagogue; correspondence from the Lay Council to the Secretary General of the frozen funds regarding the name of the Ezra synagogue committee. Correspondence between the Jewish Lay Council to the General Secretariat regarding exporting 100 Jewish books to without paying for the silver cover; a reply from Municipality of Rights and Commercial Matters to permit the export of the books if it had no silver cover; the Jewish presidency’s reply that it is a family owned, there are not commercial items, and it is against the freedom of religion law. Correspondence from Rabbi Sassoon Khedouri: to the General Directorate of Import regarding Iraqi Jewish property taxes, the Jewish properties exempted from tax, hospitals, schools and orphanages; to the Chairman of the Property requesting a copy of plans and documents of properties belonging to the Jewish community; to the Director of Property Tax requesting a reduction or exemption of property tax for demolition or vacancy reasons.

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Bills, Receipts, Purchase of Iraqi Government Bonds; Wedding Registries, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 3754 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community and contain mostly receipts and bills from the Ottoman Bank. The item also contains the wedding registries for the community; columns include the names of the brides and grooms, the amounts of the ketubah (Jewish marriage contract), dates, and fees paid. This item also includes receipts from the Jewish community's purchase of Iraqi government bonds.

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Financial Records, Jewish Hospitals Committee and the Jewish Lay Council

IJA Number: 3702 · Language: Arabic

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.

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Correspondence Regarding Financial, Legal, and Employee Matters, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 3111 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. They contain financial and legal correspondence from the Jewish Religious Court, Shamash Secondary School, President of the Jewish Community and the Iraqi State Railways regarding employees – a teacher’s separation, coordination for an employee to leave for a court case, and financial disputes.

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School Documents and Test Administration Instructions, Student Rosters, Teacher Issues, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 3787 · Language: Multiple Languages

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.

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Financial Records, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 3756 · Language: Arabic

These are financial documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are doctor's bills; utility bills; receipts from financial transactions; request to provide financial assistance to a hospitalized member of the Jewish community; financial and commercial records such as requests to transfer currency; and invoices from the Jewish hospitals in Baghdad.

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