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ספר טירת כסף

IJA Number: 5 · Language: Hebrew

This is a book of sermons and commentary on the biblical books of Genesis and Exodus. It was printed in Thessalonikē (also known as Salonika), Greece.

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משניות סדר נשים

IJA Number: 1603 · Language: Hebrew

This is a tractate of the Mishnah, Nashim. The title page is damaged and no publication information can be found.

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ספר תורת ה' ספר שמות

IJA Number: 389 · Language: Hebrew

This is volume 2 of a 5 volume set of commentaries on the Hebrew Bible. This is commentary on the book of Exodus.

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[Book Section - Shulḥan ʻArukh]

IJA Number: 728 · Language: Hebrew

This is part of the Shulḥan ʻArukh, Oraḥ Ḥayyim, a medieval book of Jewish law, including commentaries. There is no publication information.

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[Book Section - Hebrew Bible]

IJA Number: 722 · Language: Hebrew

This is part of a volume of the Hebrew Bible. Included are the later prophets and the entire book of Writings. There is no publication information.

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[Book Section - Hebrew Bible]

IJA Number: 710 · Language: Hebrew

This is part of a commentary on the Hebrew Bible. Included are the later prophets and the entire book of Writings. There is no publication information.

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טור אבן העזר

IJA Number: 732 · Language: Hebrew

This is part of the Ṭur, a medieval book on Jewish law. There is no publication information.

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[Commentary on Genesis]

IJA Number: 57 · Language: Hebrew

This is a rabbinic commentary on the biblical book of Genesis. There is no publication information.

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[Book Section - Jewish History]

IJA Number: 6 · Language: Spanish

This is a book in Spanish likely about the Holocaust.

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ספר חק לישראל

IJA Number: 2489 · Language: Hebrew

This is a commentary on the Torah from printed in Warsaw.

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יציאות השבת

IJA Number: 38 · Language: Aramaic

This is a commentary on the tractate Shabat, dealing with laws about the Sabbath, from the Babylonian Talmud. There is no publication information.

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Financial Records, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 3756 · Language: Arabic

These are financial documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are doctor's bills; utility bills; receipts from financial transactions; request to provide financial assistance to a hospitalized member of the Jewish community; financial and commercial records such as requests to transfer currency; and invoices from the Jewish hospitals in Baghdad.

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الكتاب السنوي: توثيق لابرزالمعلومات و الاحداث في فلسطين المحتلة

IJA Number: 178 · Language: Arabic

This is a book published in Arabic titled "The Annual Book: A documentation of major information and events taking place in Palestine, 1981."
It was jointly published by the Arab Institute for Studies and Press (Beirut, Lebanon) and Dar Al Jalil for Press (Amman, Jordan).

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מחזור ליום כפור

IJA Number: 17 · Language: Hebrew

This is a prayer book, or Maḥzor, for Yom Kippur. It is printed in Livorno for the Sephardic communities.

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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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[Book Section - Prayer Book]

IJA Number: 273 · Language: Hebrew

This is part of a prayer book for the three pilgrimage festivals. There is no publication information.

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Correspondence from the President of the Jewish Community Regarding Schools, Laws Establishing Organizations, Hospitals

IJA Number: 2736 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community committees and associations through which the Jewish community conducted its business; included for each committee are names of chairmen, board of directors, and secretaries. The documents contain correspondence between the President of the Jewish Community and various Jewish schools in Baghdad, including Frank Iny, Tomkhe Tora Society (teaching Torah to poor children), and the Midrash Talmuh Torah Schools. Subjects include classroom assignments, teacher salaries, requests for Hebrew Bibles from the British and Foreign Bible Society in London for schools in Baghdad. There is also correspondence with the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior regarding the laws of establishing organizations, and documents outlining the arrangement of various organizations including the Dorshe Tora Society (teaching Torah to adults) and Ozer Dalim (committee for helping the poor); correspondence between the Jewish Lay Council and the Baghdad Chamber of Commerce, the Ḥevrah Ḳadishah (Burial Society), Meir Elias Hospital and the Jewish Hospitals Committee; correspondence regarding the training of ambulance attendants, the annual report of the Red Crescent Society from 1947, and lists of the heads and structure of Jewish organizations, hospitals and schools. These committees were all vital in the daily life of Baghdadi Jews.

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ספר יקרא דשכבי: דרושים

IJA Number: 1522 · Language: Hebrew

This is a book of Jewish sermons printed in Thessalonikē (also known as Salonika), Greece.

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ספר עין יעקב חלק ראשון

IJA Number: 1493 · Language: Hebrew

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

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ספר חידושי הריטב"א

IJA Number: 1409 · Language: Aramaic

This is a commentary on several tractates of the Talmud.

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ספר קנין הגוף

IJA Number: 1314 · Language: Hebrew

This is parts one and two of a book about Jewish divorce law printed in Livorno. Also bound with the book is another book on Jewish divorce law, ספר שמחת משה Sefer Śimḥat Mosheh by Mosheh Ḥayyim ben Shelomoh Amrilaṿ printed in Livorno in 5628 (1867 or 1868) also about Jewish divorce law.

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ספר מועדים לשמחה

IJA Number: 12 · Language: Hebrew

This is a prayer book printed in Baghdad for the three pilgrimage festivals.

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פרי עץ הדר

IJA Number: 2402 · Language: Aramaic

This book is Peri ʻEts Hadar, a ḳabalistic book about the holiday of Tu bi-Shevaṭ. There is no publication information.

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