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Ezra Menahem Daniel Sports-Ground Committee Financial Records

IJA Number: 3711 · Language: Arabic

This is a collection of receipts issued from Ezra Menahem Daniel Sports Ground paying for services such as water, electricity, electronic equipment, food, soda, taxis, and construction materials. Other documents include a spreadsheet of revenues and expenses for the stadium in 1955, and a royal decree to elect Rabbi Khedouri as Deputy Rabbi.

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Marriage and Divorce Cases, Jewish Religious Court; Student Rosters, Correspondence, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 3736 · Language: Multiple Languages

This is archival material from the Baghdadi Jewish community. The first part contains correspondence from 1929-1931 regarding marriage and divorce cases; the Jewish Religious Court dealt with family laws cases such as alimony, provisions for the wife based on Jewish marriage laws, death of spouses, and divorce. The second part contains ledgers and student rosters from the Society of Arts and Culture, correspondence from the Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools, and a letter of recommendation for a scholarship application from 1968-1970.

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Correspondence between Administrative Council for Iraqi Jews and the Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools

IJA Number: 3722 · Language: Arabic

These documents contain communications between the Administrative Council for Iraqi Jews and the Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools. Included is correspondence about students’ acceptance to study abroad, rosters of students receiving awards, administrative memos concerning employment issues, receipts and financial information concerning school expenditures.

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Verification Certificates, Citizenship Paperwork

IJA Number: 3706 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community and include death certificates, birth certificates, marriage, and divorce documentation. This item also contains citizenship paperwork, documents certifying the surrendering of Iraqi citizenship in order to emigrate abroad, and letters of recommendation written for former employees. Many of the letters include photographs.

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Verification Certificates of Baghdadi Jewish Community Members; Member Lists, Financial Ledgers, Jewish Lay Council

IJA Number: 3112 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community comprised of marriage, divorce, birth, and death certificates and confirmations of Jewish lineage; certificates cover the 1910s-1920s. In the Jewish marriage certificates, “Miss” is added before the woman’s name if it is her first marriage; “Divorcee” is added before the woman’s name if she is divorced. There are also lists of members of the Jewish Lay Council, 1936-1940, and financial ledgers listing original purchase price, original owners, and sale price. There is also a complaint letter from a Muslim tenant asking for compensation, and a letter from a Muslim land owner offering to lease land to the Jewish community for building a hospital.

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Baghdadi Jewish Community Financial Information, Involvement in Iraqi Life

IJA Number: 2846 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. Included is a document encouraging the Jewish community to participate in the public relation for the well being of the government, as done in the past. This item also contains medical receipts, bills, insurance and assurance bills receipts, and financial ledgers belonging to the Baghdadi Jewish community. There is an invitation in English and Arabic for a Grand Ball given by the Ministry of Education to benefit the poor pupils of the school. This item refers to the Jewish Community as the “Mosaic Community.”

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Architectural Plans, Shamash Secondary School Assets

IJA Number: 2801 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included is a blueprint of a school in Baghdad, and documents from the Shamash Secondary School to the Jewish Lay Council regarding the school's assets.

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Rent Disputes and Agreements, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2798 · Language: Arabic

These documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community include correspondence between community lawyers and tenants of property owned by the community. In the documents, the lawyer repeatedly requests that tenants pay overdue rent and renew rental agreements.

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Financial Records and Receipts, Ḥevrah Ḳadishah (Burial Society) and President of the Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2731 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Ḥevrah Ḳadishah, the Baghdadi Jewish community’s Burial Society. They are primarily receipts from the Ḥevrah Ḳadishah. There are also receipts from Iraqi government agencies and various local merchants for utilities, vehicle upkeep, wire transfers, taxis, textiles, building supplies, and newspaper advertisements; rosters of salaries of officials and employees from the President of the Jewish Community; and correspondence regarding water prices.

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Verification Certificates, Confirmation of Jewish Lineage, Vocations, Citizenship

IJA Number: 3757 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community, comprised of birth, engagement, marriage, divorce, and death certificates; confirmations of Jewish lineage, vocations, ethnicity, and citizenship. Included are betrothal agreements, a hospital issued birth certificate, and a ‘specimen signature’ verifying an individual’s signature. Certificates were issued in 1950 and cover the 1890s-1950.

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Correspondence, Baghdadi Jewish Community Organizations; Booklets in Arabic and Judeo-Arabic of the Ḥevrah Ḳadishah

IJA Number: 3105 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are correspondence from the Burial Society (Ḥevrah Ḳadishah), the Lay Council, the President of the Jewish Community, the Spiritual Council, and the Chief Rabbi. There are letters about the Jewish Hospitals, the rules of the Burial Society, and accounting rules of the Jewish community. There are also four booklets: 2 in Judeo-Arabic printed by Elias Shoḥeṭ for the Burial Society, printed in 5690 (1929 or 1930); 2 are in Arabic printed in 5709 (1948 or 1979) and 5708 (1947 or 1948). This item also includes documents concerning the foundation of the organization, a newspaper article about a dispute within the Baghdadi Jewish community, and the minutes from several meetings.

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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, Insurance Receipts, Rental Agreement, Electricity Bills, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2733 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are rental agreements between the President of the Jewish community and various community members; ledgers of property holdings; correspondence regarding the distribution of endowments to schools and hospitals; legal paperwork for establishment of an endowment; insurance policy invoices from the South British Insurance Company, L’Union and the Iraq Insurance Office; insurance policies issued by the Legal & General Assurance Society Limited and the South British Insurance Company, electricity and water bills; and contracts. The insurance policies cover everything from fire and auto to typewriters and Persian rugs. Many of the documents are administered by the Jewish Lay Council, overseen by Eliyahu Hiam Youfek or Heskel David Shemtob.

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Jewish Lay Council Lease Agreements, Receipts

IJA Number: 1045 · Language: Arabic

This item contains lease agreements between the Baghdadi Jewish Lay Council and tenants in property the council owns. The documents also contain a few receipts from cash transactions.

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Documents from Alliance Israélite Universelle; Financial Transactions, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 3106 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. They include material from the Alliance Israélite Universelle, a French Jewish organization and receipts from the financial transactions conducted by Baghdadi Jewish organizations.

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Receipts and Invoices for the Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools

IJA Number: 2840 · Language: Arabic

These are receipts and invoices from the Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools from a variety of vendors for electrical and maintenance work, book orders, water, electricity, labor, travel for teachers, carpentry, pharmacy orders, toys, food services, office and school supplies, sporting goods, printing, fire insurance policy renewal, and newspaper advertising. Vendors include: Mackenzie’s Books, The Bookshop – Baghdad, Edward Raby Pharmacy, Al-Muthanna Library, Iraqi Mercantile Limited, The Union Pharmacy, the Middle East Store, Victory Bookshop, Coronet Bookshop, Trading & Printing Co. Ltd., Dar Es Salaam Hospital, Iraq Insurance Office Ltd, The Times (London), Manchester Guardian, and Foyles.

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