Decade of Publication is exactly 1921-1930
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ספר ויבחר משה

IJA Number: 772 · Language: Hebrew

This is a book of Jewish Ethics printed in Baghdad. There are several copies in the collection.

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מחזור לראש השנה

IJA Number: 785 · Language: Hebrew

This is a prayer book, or Maḥzor, for the Jewish New Year printed in Vienna. It is in the Sephardic custom.

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סדור מנחת ירושלים

IJA Number: 554 · Language: Hebrew

This is a prayer book, printed in Jerusalem, in the Baghdadi style. It includes afternoon and evening prayers for Sabbath and regular week days.

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שולחן ערוך אורח חיים

IJA Number: 42 · Language: Hebrew

This is an edition of the Oraḥ Ḥayim, a book of Jewish law from the Shulḥan ʻArukh, including commentaries.

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Archival Materials

Documents from the Jewish Religious Court, Baghdad

IJA Number: 3701 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. The item contains records from the Jewish Religious Courts and the Iraqi and the Baghdad Court of Appeals. The court records concern family matters such as marriage, divorce, custody of children, and inheritance issues.

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שלחן ערוך מטור יורה דעה

IJA Number: 3639 · Language: Hebrew

This is an edition of the Yoreh De'ah, a book of Jewish law from the Shulḥan ʻArukh.

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Archival Materials

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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Archival Materials

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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Archival Materials

Student Grades, Examinations, Correspondence, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 2730 · Language: Arabic

These are school materials from the Baghdadi Jewish schools. Included are examination records for state exams, listing student scores and pass/fail from the 1930s - 1950s; correspondence from the Baghdad education office regarding student examinations, including verification of students’ names, and test administration and locations; student qualifications for the Baghdad College of Engineering; and a few copies of exam questions for French, English, and mathematics.

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Correspondence, Court Documents, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2688 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are letters in Judeo-Arabic from Chief Rabbi Benjamin Moshi, the Jewish Religious Court, and the Jewish Appeals Court; a letter from a Jewish war prisoner, presumably British, asking to remain in Iraq; verification of a community member’s profession and birth place; representatives of the Jewish community to the British Advisory Council; Arabic court documents concerning marital and financial matters; a request to the Iraqi government for permission to allow students to present Moliere's play, "The Doctor, in Spite of Himself."

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Archival Materials

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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Archival Materials

Correspondence from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Regarding Court Cases

IJA Number: 2093 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Iraqi government and include correspondence between the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iranian officials, and various government offices confirming several individual's identities, citizenship and family lineage regarding legal status in criminal court cases (1933-1938). There is one unrelated document, from 1919, from a British military official concerning the British Club in Basrah.

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אור גדול ספר דברים

IJA Number: 2941 · Language: Hebrew

This is the book of Deuteronomy with the Aramaic translation and commentaries and also includes the Hafṭarot and the morning service for Shabat.

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ספר בראשית ראשון לתורת אלוהים

IJA Number: 2927 · Language: Hebrew

This is the book of Genesis with the Aramaic translation and commentaries and also includes the Hafṭarot and the morning service for Shabat.

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ראש השנה מן תלמוד בבלי

IJA Number: 2611 · Language: Aramaic

This is a tractate of the Babylonian Talmud printed in Petrykaŭ (also known as Petrikov in modern day Belarus). It discusses the Jewish calendar.

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Endowment Registration, Masooda Saliman

IJA Number: 2839 · Language: Arabic

This is an endowment registration in 1922 for a house endowed by Masooda Saliman, to be used as a school named after her.

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Correspondence Regarding the Midrash Committee and the Midrash Talmud Torah; Correspondence with the British Military Governor

IJA Number: 2814 · Language: Arabic

These documents primarily contain correspondence between the Midrash Committee, the Midrash school, Midrash Talmud Torah, and the Jewish Schools Committee in Baghdad. They discuss the monthly salaries of individuals working for the various religious organizations. There is a typed copy of the annual report for the Midrash school, 1945-1946. There are also unrelated documents from the British Military Governor’s Office to the Chief Rabbi from 1917. This correspondence relates to members of the Jewish community being allowed out after curfew (including to summon midwives), and the use of lights after permitted hours for religious celebration; the establishment of a charitable committee for poor relief in each community; and a letter requesting unleavened bread for Jewish prisoners during the Jewish holiday of Passover.

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Archival Materials

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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ספר שמות השני לתורת האלהים

IJA Number: 1948 · Language: Hebrew

This is the biblical book of Exodus with all the hafṭarot and the entire Shabat morning service.

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סדר תקון חצות וסליחות

IJA Number: 1703 · Language: Hebrew

This is a prayer book for the Jewish Holiday of Seliḥot written by the Ḳabalistic rabbi, Isaac Luria, and printed in Baghdad.

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מסכת סוכה מן תלמוד בבלי

IJA Number: 2480 · Language: Hebrew

This is a tractate of the Babylonian Talmud printed in Petrykaŭ (also known as Petrikov in modern day Belarus). It discusses the laws about the holiday Sukkot.

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חמשה חומשי תורה

IJA Number: 2409 · Language: Hebrew

This is an edition of the Torah printed in London. There are two publication dates that do not correspond: the Hebrew Calendar year corresponds with 1924 or 1925 rather than the Gregorian date, 1929, printed on the title page. This book is heavily annotated, likely doodles done by a child.

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חומש כולל חמשה חומשי תורה

IJA Number: 2012 · Language: Hebrew

This is an edition of the Torah with commentary by Rashi, the Aramaic translation, Hafṭarot and the five Megilot.

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סדור מנחת ירושלם

IJA Number: 1943 · Language: Hebrew

This is a prayer book for the afternoon and weekday service according to the Baghdadi custom printed in Livorno.

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