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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

President of the Baghdadi Jewish Community: Correspondence, Invoices, Legal Matters

IJA Number: 3781 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. They include correspondence between the President of the Jewish community and Iraqi government agencies; invoices from both private companies and government utilities; an appeal from the French Sisters Convent for a hospital building fund; letters from Al-Amir Sporting – Baghdad and the Orient Trading Corp. Ltd.; notes from the Eastern Bank, Ltd., the Ottoman Bank, and the Bank of Iraq; responses to request for information on specific individuals; an index; legal issues regarding assets; records of loans and beneficiaries for 1970 and 1975. There are also birth, engagement, marriage, and death certificates; on some of the certificates, the names are listed in Hebrew. For one of the death confirmation certificates, the President of the Jewish community lists the family of the deceased.

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