Keywords is exactly Endowments
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Assets and Property Owned by the Midrash Committee

IJA Number: 3473 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. The item contains records of non-cash assets and physical property owned by the Midrash Committee.

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Change in Leadership of an Endowment

IJA Number: 1293 · Language: Arabic

This item contains a memo concerning a change in leadership of an endowment on account of the current office-holder's travel outside of Iraq.

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Verification Certificates, Citizenship Paperwork

IJA Number: 3706 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community and include death certificates, birth certificates, marriage, and divorce documentation. This item also contains citizenship paperwork, documents certifying the surrendering of Iraqi citizenship in order to emigrate abroad, and letters of recommendation written for former employees. Many of the letters include photographs.

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Correspondence Regarding Property Owned by Jews between the President of the Jewish Community and the Iraqi Government

IJA Number: 2861 · Language: Arabic

This contains correspondence between the Iraqi Government and the President of the Jewish Community concerning Baghdadi Jewish property. The files contain government requests for information about deceased Iraqi Jews or those who have left the country and abrogated their citizenship.

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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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Financial Information Including Ledgers and Organization of the Ḥevrah Ḳadishah

IJA Number: 2715 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community that include: information about properties owned by a deceased philanthropist; a document from the Court of Appeals; a detailed statement outlining the purpose and organization of the Ḥevrah Ḳadishah, the Burial Society; and several handwritten financial ledgers.

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