Decade of Publication is exactly 1931-1940
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סדר יהי רצון לראש השנה

IJA Number: 1663 · Language: Judeo-Arabic

This is a small prayer book printed in Baghdad for the Jewish New Year. It included prayers to be said on the holiday, mostly at home, and explanations in Judeo-Arabic.

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סדור מנחת ירושלם

IJA Number: 1622 · Language: Hebrew

This is an afternoon and evening prayer book for Sabbath and weekdays days according to the Baghdadi custom printed in Livorno.

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סדור מנחת ירושלם

IJA Number: 1514 · 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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סדר הגדה של פסח

IJA Number: 1968 · Language: Judeo-Arabic

This is a Passover Hagadah for the Baghdadi Jewish community that includes Judeo-Arabic. Stuck to the back cover was the title page to the 1962 Baghdadi prayer book, Ḳehilat Yaʻaḳov.

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אור גדול ספר במדבר

IJA Number: 84 · Language: Hebrew

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

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סדר מנחה וערבית לשלש רגלים

IJA Number: 550 · Language: Hebrew

This is a prayer book published in Livorno for the Baghdadi community for the three pilgrimage holidays.

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סדור תפלת ישרים מנחה וערבית לשלש רגלים כמנהגי הספרדים בארץ-ישראל ובחוץ-לארץ

IJA Number: 546 · Language: Hebrew

This is a prayer book printed in Jerusalem for the Sephardic community living both in Israel and the diaspora. It includes afternoon and evening prayers for three pilgrimage holidays.

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סדור תפלת ישרים: מנחה וערבית לחול ולשבתות כמנהגי הספרדים בארץ-ישראל ובחוץ-לארץ

IJA Number: 415 · Language: Hebrew

This is a prayer book printed in Jerusalem for the Sephardic community living both in Israel and the diaspora. It includes afternoon and evening prayers for Sabbath and regular week days.

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סדר מנחה וערבית לשלש רגלים

IJA Number: 125 · Language: Hebrew

This is a prayer book published in Livorno for the Baghdadi community for the three pilgrimage holidays.

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סדר הגדה של פסח

IJA Number: 799 · Language: Judeo-Arabic

This is a Baghdadi Passover Hagadah that includes Judeo-Arabic. There are many copies in the collection.

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סדור מנחת ירושלם

IJA Number: 796 · Language: Hebrew

This is an afternoon and evening prayer book for Sabbath and weekdays days according to the Baghdadi custom printed in Livorno.

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סדור מנחת ירושלם

IJA Number: 424 · Language: Hebrew

This is an afternoon and evening prayer book for Sabbath and weekdays days printed in Baghdad. There are many copies of this book in the collection.

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Archival Materials

Verification Certificates, Correspondence, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 3748 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are certificates for birth, engagement, marriage, divorce, and death of community members. There is correspondence from the President of the Jewish Community regarding financial hardships, marriage disputes, medical assistance needs and travel for medical treatment, and confirmations of character, identity or citizenship. There are also documents confirming religious education and births in other countries including Austria, Greece, and Romania. Birth certificates verifying birth dates go as far back as the 1870s.

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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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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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ספר עין יעקב חלק א

IJA Number: 453 · Language: Hebrew

This is volume one of a five volume set of commentary on Jewish literature.

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Budget Reports, Exam Results, Reports about Conditions, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 3109 · Language: Arabic

This item contains documents pertaining to the schools administered by the Baghdadi Jewish Community. Included among the documents are budgetary reports, matriculation exam results, and reports concerning conditions within the schools.

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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 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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Correspondence from the Ministry of the Interior Regarding the Turkish Government and the British Embassy

IJA Number: 2194 · Language: Arabic

This is collected correspondence in a file folder from 1985 titled “Bulletin Condemning the Turkish Government's Policy with the Arabs”; the records themselves are from the early 1940s. They include a letter from the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior regarding flyers distributed in Mosul province condemning the Turkish government’s policy toward the Arabs and requests the Director of Mosul police to go after the distributors by mixing with students and reporting on them; a letter from the Directorate of Basrah to the Ministry of the Interior regarding the destruction of the logo sign of the British Embassy in Basrah by an Iranian individual assumed to have mental illness and sentenced to three months in prison; a letter from the British Embassy to the press attaché regarding pamphlets being sent to the office; a file folder from 1985 houses the records although the records themselves are from the early 1940s.

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Correspondence from the Iraqi Government Regarding Iranian Issues, a Kurdish Rebel, and the Incidents in Halabja

IJA Number: 2103 · Language: Arabic

This is material from the Iraqi government containing correspondence regarding Iranian immigration; a sheikh’s relationship with Iranian soldiers along the border; Ja’far al-Sultān, a Kurdish rebel; and the district commissioners’ decision on the incidents in Halabja.

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