Keywords is exactly Waqf
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Financial Documents, Baghdadi Jewish Community; Correspondence and School Records, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 3326 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community including financial records; blueprints; correspondence regarding charitable donations, synagogues, and Torah scrolls; lease agreements, taxi receipts, utility bills, and stationary receipts. There are also documents from the Jewish schools in Baghdad, including correspondence regarding student affairs, teachers, lists of students sitting for exams, school administration and financial matters, curriculum development; schedules; and chemistry notes from the Frank Iny School.

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Charitable Endowment Paperwork

IJA Number: 1289 · Language: Arabic

This is paperwork for property owned by the Midrash Committee charitable endowment of the Baghdadi Jewish community.

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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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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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Correspondence Between the President of the Jewish Community and the Court of Materials Identification

IJA Number: 1287 · Language: Arabic

These documents include correspondence between the President of the Jewish Community and the Court of Materials Identification requesting information regarding Meir Elias Hospital donor names. The documents also mention Waqf donations; the abrogation of citizenship; legal documents; forms registering allocations; and the Police Office of Travelers and Citizens.

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Correspondence between Iraqi Government and President of the Jewish Community about Jewish Citizens

IJA Number: 3782 · Language: Arabic

This item contains requests from the Iraqi government to the President of the Jewish Community about Baghdadi Jewish community members that have passed away or abrogated their citizenship. Correspondence also confirms citizenship, religion, and marriages. There is legal paperwork regarding the endowment of Ezra Menahem Daniel. Included is an unrelated part of a book with commentary on the Talmud.

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Ḥevrah Ḳadishah Receipts, Financial Information, Correspondence

IJA Number: 3169 · Language: Arabic

These documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community include files from the Ḥevrah Ḳadishah, the Jewish burial society; receipts regarding the administration of an endowment; handwritten financial notes; and a letter from a lawyer regarding community financial affairs. This also includes half of a page of קמיע ירושלמית שמירה ליולדת, (Ḳameʻa Yerushalmit Shrirah le-Yuledet), an amulet guard for pregnant women. These documents reflect the Baghdadi Jewish community's name change to the Mosaic community.

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Ezra Menahem Daniel Endowment Paperwork; Receipts, President of the Jewish Community

IJA Number: 3087 · Language: Arabic

These documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community include endowment and lease paperwork from the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews about the administration of charitable funds and properties belonging to the Ezra Menahem Daniel endowment. This item also contains receipts from the President of the Jewish Community. These documents reflect the Baghdadi Jewish community's name change to the Mosaic community.

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Endowment Paperwork, Financial Information, Architectural Plans, Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews

IJA Number: 3084 · Language: Arabic

These documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community include, paperwork concerning the lease of roof space, endowment paperwork from the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews, receipts, financial correspondence, and an architectural drawing. These documents reflect the Baghdadi Jewish community's name change to the Mosaic community.

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Correspondence from the President of the Jewish Community; Financial Information

IJA Number: 2876 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. They contain correspondence from the President of the Jewish Community; receipts for car repairs; lease agreements; financial agreements; and correspondence regarding an endowment and legal matters.

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Legal Materials and Correspondence Related to the Daniel Family Endowment

IJA Number: 2632 · Language: Arabic

This is archival material in from the Baghdadi Jewish Community containing documents related to a legal case dealing with the disbursement and management of an endowment from the Daniel family. It includes court testimony, correspondence with the local endowment administrating official, the Jewish Lay Council, the President of the Jewish Community, school administrators; and the transfer of management of the waqf. There are original title property deeds dated 1924-1931.

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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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Endowment Transactions, Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews

IJA Number: 3114 · Language: Arabic

This is a folder titled “Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews: Endowment of Menahem and Sasson Saleh Daniel.” It contains correspondence between the President of Jewish Community to the Secretariat of Frozen Assets regarding waiver of rent, and reconciliation between Salman Daniel and Kairy Hassoun Ansari regarding an endowment.

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Establishment of the Meir Tawig Synagogue, Baghdad

IJA Number: 2830 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community with information related to the establishment of Meir Tawieg Synagogue as an endowment, the general management of the synagogue, and land and financial contracts related to the synagogue.

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Community Endowments; Laws of the Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2829 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community that include correspondence and documents regarding community endowments (waqf), the history of endowments and relationship with the Office of Waqfs; internal community leadership disputes; function and relationships with various community legal structures, the law of the Jewish Community (#77, 1931), the law regarding the administration of endowments (#27, 1929), the organization of the Jewish community (#36, 1931), and statue #32, 1950.

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Correspondence from the President of the Jewish Community Verifying a Waqf

IJA Number: 2785 · Language: Arabic

This is correspondence from 1955 on behalf of the President of the Baghdadi Jewish Community regarding records verifying a waqf from 1933. The 1933 records are included.

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Meir Elias Hospital and Community Endowments

IJA Number: 663 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community related to the Meir Elias Hospital Endowments, the community endowment, and forms for the government regarding the endowments. There is a lawful endowment issued by Iraqi Ministry of Justice for a shop at Meir Elias Hospital in 1925.

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Correspondence between Iraqi Government and President of the Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 3770 · Language: Arabic

This is correspondence from the Iraqi government to the President of the Baghdadi Jewish Community regarding citizenship and identity verification, and estate settlements and inheritance disputes.

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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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Ezra Menahem Daniel Endowment Paperwork, Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews

IJA Number: 3086 · Language: Arabic

These documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community include lease and endowment paperwork from the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews regarding the administration of charitable funds and properties from the Ezra Menahem Daniel endowment.

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Files Regarding Menahem Daniel Endowments

IJA Number: 1441 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. Included are correspondence with the Iraqi government about an orchard; accounting materials; the law allowing the liquidation of a family fund. In a file with the handwritten title “Menahem Account and Promissory Bills Received by the Court” are a letter from the Administrative Committee for the Jewish Community to an accountant regarding payments for his service; handwritten calculations; endowment registration; a chapter of a law for endowments published by the government of Iraq under King Faisal II; expenses of the Menahem Daniel schools; a letter to Jewish Lay Council asking to acquire revenues and expenses for Menahem Daniel’s endowments in 1944.

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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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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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