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Archival Materials

Financial Documents, Baghdadi Jewish Community; Correspondence and School Records, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

IJA Number: 3326 · Language: Arabic

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community including financial records; blueprints; correspondence regarding charitable donations, synagogues, and Torah scrolls; lease agreements, taxi receipts, utility bills, and stationary receipts. There are also documents from the Jewish schools in Baghdad, including correspondence regarding student affairs, teachers, lists of students sitting for exams, school administration and financial matters, curriculum development; schedules; and chemistry notes from the Frank Iny School.

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Establishment of Sasson Eskell Technical School; Properly Owned by Jewish Community

IJA Number: 3299 · Language: Multiple Languages

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included is information relating to building the Sasson Eskell Technical School: blue prints and architectural plans, lists of required materials for the building and operation of the school; letters to David Eskell about the school’s establishment; proposed curriculum and subjects of study. The item also contains documents concerning property owned by Jewish organizations such as Ḥevrah Ḳadishah and Midrash Talmud Torah.

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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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Correspondence from Baghdadi Jewish Community Including Legal Issues (Marriage, Inheritance, Endowments), Financial Matters, School Administration

IJA Number: 3712 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. They contain requests for community records and residency confirmations; wire transfers; correspondence regarding the adoption of Jewish laws in the Diaspora; communication from the Ambassador of Iraq in Rabat regarding Moroccan officials requesting information on laws applicable to the Iraqi Jewish community (customary laws pertaining to marriage, inheritance, etc.); legal agreements for engagement and marriage; requests for marriage confirmations, death certificates; employment separations; lawsuit regarding the management of an endowment; repairs to school buildings; correspondence regarding sending sefarim (Jewish religious books) to New York; letters referencing the Law of Acquisitions, 43/1934; discussions about tearing down or rebuilding a wall; invoices and accounting information from the Ezra Menahem Daniel Sports-Ground Committee; school administration; requests for vaccines; property laws; deeds; the administration of scholarships; announcements about community meetings and ceremonies; requests for food provisions for prisoners during the holidays; and requests for clarification of laws in conflict with the interim constitution of 1958. These documents reflect the Baghdadi Jewish community's name change to the Mosaic community.

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Community Meeting Agendas, Minutes; Booklets about Jewish Orphans Charitable Organization, Jewish Community Laws

IJA Number: 3097 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community that consist of notices of community meeting agendas and meeting minutes, addressing a variety of issues including school staff, elected community positions, Kosher food, totals of butchered Kosher meat for the meat tax, and budget planning. There is a small booklet titled “Statues for the Jewish Orphans Charitable Organization, 1948.” There are documents listing members of the community involved in different community or religious organizations, including various school subcommittees and members of particular synagogues. There is a copy of the booklet titled: "The Jewish Community Law # 77 and the Jewish Community System #36 for the year 1931" and is printed in both Arabic and Judeo-Arabic. The laws were published in an Iraqi newspaper in 1931. This was published in Baghdad by the Jewish Charity Council and there are several copies of the laws in the collection.

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Meir Elias Hospital and Community Endowments

IJA Number: 663 · Language: Arabic

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community related to the Meir Elias Hospital Endowments, the community endowment, and forms for the government regarding the endowments. There is a lawful endowment issued by Iraqi Ministry of Justice for a shop at Meir Elias Hospital in 1925.

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Jewish Cemetery, Property Rights, Legal Paperwork, Baghdadi Jewish Community

IJA Number: 2832 · Language: Arabic

These documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community relate to the community’s cemetery, property rights, and legal paperwork regarding land agreements.

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Correspondence from the President of the Jewish Community Regarding Property in al-Hillah and Zul-Kifl

IJA Number: 2781 · Language: Arabic

These are folders from the President of the Jewish Community titled "Property of al-Hillah Community." Included are: and an official document of property ownership for the Zul-Kifl endowment, correspondence from the President of Jewish community to Iraqi Property Registration Office requesting approval to sell a house belonging to the Jewish community in al-Hillah, official proof of property ownership, letters between the President of the Jewish community and Ezra Manheim Daniel regarding a list of endowment properties in Zul-Kifl district area, and an official government registration of an endowed stable.

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Document Regarding a Shop Belonging to the Tomkhe Tora Society

IJA Number: 2837 · Language: Arabic

This is a descriptive record from the Property Commission to the President of the Baghdadi Jewish Community of a shop belonging to Tomkhe Tora Society.

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Correspondence Regarding Endowed Synagogue in Baghdad

IJA Number: 2780 · Language: Arabic

This is a folder from the President of the Baghdadi Jewish community about property belonging to an endowed synagogue. It includes a letter from the Chief for approval and an official registration of the endowed synagogue in the court.

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