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Archival Materials

Telegrams To and From Nazih al-Swaid Co., Ltd

IJA Number: 3780 · Language: Multiple Languages

This is a group of telegrams about business transactions, including travel plans and financial confirmations. Most seem to be from the same company, the Nazih al-Swaid Co., Ltd., and include information about sugar transactions, oil, financial transactions, and construction plans. Many offer well wishes for the new years and holidays and concerns of health of family members and business partners. The travel plans include when someone is arriving in a city (which flight or train) and what hotel that person is staying at or if travel arrangements need to be made. The correspondence is to and from Baghdad and other Iraqi cities (Basrah, Mosul, Kirkuk), cities in Germany (Dusseldorf, Cologne), Teheran (Iran), Istanbul, London, Amsterdam, Vienna, Paris, cities in Italy (Rome), Switzerland, New York, Los Angeles, Beirut (Lebanon), Damascus (Syria), Saudi Arabia, Tripoli (Libya) and Amman (Jordan). Telegrams are in English, Arabic, French, and German.

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Archival Materials

Newspaper; Correspondence from the Jewish Community; History of Jews in Iraq

IJA Number: 3718 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. They include a newspaper with lost/missing notices, a chart of flights, a letter to the editor; and correspondence regarding a synagogue, the Jewish community within Iraq, Iraqi Jews living outside Iraq, and Zionism. There is a brief history of Jews in Iraq, which talks about the impact of changing laws on the community and the July 17, 1975 Ba’ath Party Revolution. These documents reflect the Baghdadi Jewish community's name change to the Mosaic community.

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Archival Materials

Correspondence Regarding Teachers, Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools

IJA Number: 2735 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Frank Iny and the Shamash Secondary Schools in Baghdad. They are primarily correspondence with Iraqi government offices confirming teachers’ credentials, character, travel plans, and citizenship. There is correspondence regarding hiring teachers.

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Books

اخبار ايران نشرة شهرية تعني بالأخبار السياسية والإقتصادية

IJA Number: 2085 · Language: Arabic

This is a booklet titled “Iran News: Monthly Newsletter Concerned with Political and Economic News” issued by the Center for Iranian Studies at the University of Basra (Iraq). It is for researchers and professionals and monitors and analyzes news of Iran foreign policy, internal, economic, and military affairs.

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Archival Materials

Correspondence to and from Rabbi Sasson Khedouri

IJA Number: 3108 · Language: Multiple Languages

This archival material includes most correspondence with Rabbi Sasson Khedouri. Topics include: correspondence from Midrash Talmud Torah regarding educational and financial matters; election of members to a Management Committee for the Baghdad Brigade; letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs regarding Rabbi Khedouri’s testimony before a British-American Commission of Inquiry on the state of Israel; document of questions and Rabbi Khedouri’s answers on the following issues: Jewish status in Iraq, the state of Israel, equality of Jews on paying taxes, education, obtaining jobs, business, religion freedom, travelling, teaching Hebrew, and the number of Jews in Iraq; a form to collect factual information on the Jewish community to be published in the al-Rafidain Directory; a letter from Iraq Red Crescent Society to the head of Jewish community regarding the death of three Iraqis in Java, Indonesia prisons; a letter from a researcher; an invitation for a theater play from the Children's Protection Society; Shamash Company asking for help to distribute fabric to the poor; letter of complaint from a Muslim because some Jews entered the al-Kazmia holy place; a complaint regarding the Jewish community's girls behavior; letter asking for help on a forgery matter; letter asking for help from a Russian Jew who moved to Baghdad; letter asking for help to get papers from the Ministry of Supply to print the Jewish annual calendar for 5708; letter from the al-Jafería Schools Association asking for book donations to build a library; letters to the head of the Jewish community regarding obituaries for martyrs; letter to write an introduction for a book about Iraqi Crown Prince Abdullah; letters from the President of the Jewish Community asking for help on some matters.

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Archival Materials

Reports and Correspondence from the Iraqi Government and Embassies

IJA Number: 2842 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Iraqi government. Included are: news reports about Yasser Arafat’s visits to Egypt and other Arab countries; Kuwait’s security procedures; a confidential letter from the Iraqi embassy in Beirut to the Foreign Ministry - General Affairs Department regarding Egyptian-Palestinian communications; and documents from several Iraqi embassies and consulates concerning the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Camp David Accords.

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Fragments

Book Pages

IJA Number: 260 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are pages from 3 different works in Arabic, Turkish, and English. The pages in Arabic discuss Palestine, Lebanon, and a large contracting or building company doing business in the region. The pages in English discuss the Jewish settlement of Israel. There is no publication information found.

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Books

الجتياح الإقتصادي السرائيلي للبنان: من الإغراق إلى التفكيك و الإلحاق

IJA Number: 137 · Language: Arabic

This is a book published in Arabic which is an analytical study of the effects of the 1982 Israeli invasion on the Lebanese economy.

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Books

تقرير باعمال المكتب الرئيسي و المكاتب الاقليمية لمقاطعة اسرائيل عن المدة من يوليو ١٩٧٦ إلى ديسمبر ١٩٧٦

IJA Number: 3682 · Language: Arabic

This is a report published by the General Secretary, Main Office for the Boycott of Israel in Damascus. It is titled, “Report on the Work of the Head Office and Regional Offices on the Boycott of Israel, for the Period from July 1976 to December 1976.”

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