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Algebra, Geometry, Mathematics, Physics Class Rosters, Frank Iny School

IJA Number: 2703 · Language: Arabic

This is a booklet from one of the Jewish Schools in Baghdad titled with the name of the teacher, the subjects, and the grade level: “Hsagal Ephraim, First - Third Grades of Middle School, Algebra, Geometry, Mathematics, Physics.” It includes Frank Iny class rosters of History, Geography, Economics, and Education; each record includes grades, teacher’s name, and dates; it lists student names and their grades throughout the school year.

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Chemistry and Physics Class Rosters, Frank Iny School

IJA Number: 2693 · Language: Arabic

These archival documents are from the Frank Iny School in Baghdad. Included is a booklet with the name of a teacher, subjects, and grade level: “Dawood Arbeli, Physics, First - Six Grade of Middle School.” It includes class rosters of chemistry and physics classes: class list with school name, grade level, teacher’s name, and date; student names and their grades throughout the school year.

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Correspondence Between Jewish Community Committees, Iraqi Government, Baghdadi Schools

IJA Number: 99 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are archival materials from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Contents and topics include: correspondence between the different community committees, the Iraqi government, schools in Baghdad, and the diaspora community – primarily the Jewish community in Shanghai, China. The Chief Rabbi receives a letter from the head of the American School for Boys in Baghdad rejecting a request for admitting a student on scholarship. There are letters about life insurance and insurance for the community as a whole. Other items include correspondence regarding travel to Iran; a chart with the names of Jewish schools and hospitals and their dates of establishment; a handwritten note requesting proof of service certification from the head of the Reemah Kadoorie Eye Hospital because of the financial hardship of the requester; and a letter from the President of the Jewish community in Baghdad congratulating a member of the Shanghai-Baghdadi diaspora community on receiving the “Order of the Brilliant Jade” award from the Chinese government.

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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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Correspondence between Baghdadi Jewish Community and Shamash Secondary School and the Iraqi Government Regarding Education Issues

IJA Number: 3720 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. They consist of correspondence between government education offices, the Administrative Committee of Iraqi Jews, and the Shamash Secondary School regarding examination scores, administrative policies and procedures, the implementation of the Rules of the Administrative Committee of Iraqi Jews, published in Al-Waqā’i‘ Al-‘Irāqiyah in 1958 (including a copy of the published regulations); changes in curriculum, regulations for exam proctors; exam schedules; fees, university advertisement regulations; vocabulary lists for various subjects; teaching methodology; and students passing, failing, or needing to repeat grades. These documents reflect the Baghdadi Jewish community's name change to the Mosaic community.

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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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Correspondence, Curricula, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 3715 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Jewish schools in Baghdad. The item contains correspondence between the Iraqi Ministry of Education and the Baghdadi Jewish community concerning student grades; budget information for the Jewish schools; teachers' salaries and other employment issues; a questionnaire about whether or not the Kurdish language should be taught in schools; curricula for Trade Law, Economics, Mathematics, and Accounting classes.

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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 Regarding Teachers, Students, Correspondence to the Baghdadi Education Directorate

IJA Number: 3121 · Language: Arabic

These archival materials includes documents about schools: schools’ revenues; rosters; certificate of no criminal record for teachers; correspondence between the head of the Education Directorate in Baghdad to the head of public and private education regarding approval for teachers to give lecturers, destruction of examination booklets after six months, approval to hire a teacher.

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Student Folders with Photographs, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 2867 · 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, photographs, and correspondence regarding student affairs.

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Tax Documents, Mus’ūdah Yousef Shemtob and Masooda Saliman Schools

IJA Number: 2810 · Language: Arabic

This archival materials mainly contains school taxation matters: a letter from the Mus’ūdah Yousef Shemtob School to the Office of Income Tax reporting the amount of taxes that were taken from the school’s employees; receipts, tax reports, and an official form for income tax report for year 1951; a letter from Iraqi Ministry of Finance regarding instructions for taxation; correspondence between Jewish community schools regarding employee salaries; document from the Tax Directorate to a company regarding their income, inflation, and employee's status; official documents from the Iraqi Ministry of Finance titled: Employees Income Tax General Instructions Manual with comprehensive governmental instructions on taxation rules, laws, and punishments.

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Correspondence between Baghdadi Jewish Community Organizations and Iraqi Government, Primarily Regarding Financial Matters

IJA Number: 2777 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community relating to financial matters. Included are correspondence between the government and the Jewish community about the frozen assets of an Iraqi-Jewish community member who lost his citizenship, notification of a teacher's retirement, inheritance issues, and the selling of the Burial Society’s car due to the decline of the community.

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Baghdadi Jewish Schools Memos and Correspondence

IJA Number: 2739 · Language: Arabic

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.

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Applied Math and Algebra Class Rosters, Frank Iny School

IJA Number: 2705 · Language: Arabic

This is a booklet from the Shamash Secondary and Frank Iny Schools in Baghdad titled with the name of the teacher, the subjects, and the grade level: “Richard Obadiah, Fourth Grade Commercial, Fifth and Sixth Science Grades, Algebra, Applied.” It includes the class rosters for Applied Math and Algebra; each class list includes school’s name, school grade, teacher’s name, and date. It lists student names and their grades throughout the school year.

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Biology, Science, Health Class Rosters, Frank Iny School

IJA Number: 2704 · Language: Arabic

This is a booklet from the Frank Iny School in Baghdad titled with the name of the teacher, the subjects, and the grade level: “Dawood al-Zubaidi, First - Third Grades of Middle School, Biology, Science, Health.” It includes the class rosters for each subject; each class list includes school’s name, school grade, teacher’s name, and date. It lists student names and their grades throughout the school year.

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Correspondence and Student Rosters, Baghdadi Jewish School; Documents from the Burial Society

IJA Number: 2635 · Language: Arabic

This item contains mostly school records from Baghdadi Jewish schools and includes: correspondence between schools and the Iraqi Ministry of Education; instructions for administering state education tests, test results, class rosters, proctor rosters; curriculum outlines for different class subjects (such as trade law, Arabic, and English). Also included are the bullet points of a Ḥevrah Ḳadishah (Burial Society) meeting and one document detailing property owned by the Baghdadi Jewish community.

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Entrance Exams, Rosters, Student Test Scores, Frank Iny, Shamash Secondary, and Menahem S. Daniel’s Schools

IJA Number: 2552 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are archival documents from the Frank Iny, Shamash Secondary, and Menahem S. Daniel’s schools in Baghdad. They contain correspondence regarding student affairs; ledgers of student exam scores for all schools, 1957-1965 and 1970; class rosters for the Frank Iny sixth primary, 1959-1963; and the following exams: Frank Iny School entrance exam to the first intermediate level for English, French, mathematics, and calculus, 1959-1966; Frank Iny primary school exam for mathematics and calculus, 1965; Shamash Secondary School entrance exam to the fourth year for mathematics and English literature, 1962-1965. Exams are written in English, Arabic and French.

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Correspondence between Ministry of Education and Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 3763 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish schools. Included is correspondence from the Iraqi Ministry of Education concerning teachers, students, curricula, and capacity of each school. The item also contains orders from the Ministry of Education for school administrations to ban the use of certain books and alter the curricula by not mentioning certain topics and emphasizing other subjects. Additionally, the item contains many regulations posted by the Ministry of Education regarding the closure and/or integration of schools and education-related travel procedures.

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School Materials, Correspondence with Iraqi Ministry of Education, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 3709 · Language: Arabic

These documents include school materials such as exams, curricula, syllabi, and teacher's guides for an English course. The item also contains notifications put out by the Iraqi Ministry of Education concerning regulations for test administration, hiring approvals, requests for information concerning schools' students and graduates, and instructions for filing and transferring students' records.

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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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Correspondence between the Iraqi Government and the Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 3704 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Jewish schools in Baghdad. Included is correspondence between the Iraqi government and the Jewish schools administrations concerning employment of foreign teachers, students' behavior, graduate lists, and other administrative matters.

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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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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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Class Rosters; Student Attendance

IJA Number: 3123 · Language: Arabic

These are class rosters and student attendance records for 1972-1973. The school is not named, although some documents within the record belong to the Secondary School of The Society of Arts and Culture.

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