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IJA 3066

Financial and Employment Information, Baghdadi Jewish Community; University Scholarship Information, Baghdadi Jewish Schools

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Description

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are receipts, correspondence, scholarship information, and hospital documents. These documents also contain records from the Spiritual Council and the Jewish Lay Council pertaining to decisions regarding employees, the handling of the affairs of the deceased, and job applications. This item also includes school materials, such as applications and acceptance letters regarding a scholarship offered to Iraqi Jewish students to study abroad in England.

Metadata

Archive Reference: IJA 3066
Item Number: 16657
Date: Approx. January 1, 1941 to December 31, 1950
Languages: Multiple Languages
Keywords: Annotation, Baghdadi Jewish Community, College Entrance Examination Board, Correspondence, Endowment, English, Frank Iny School, Handwritten, Hospital, Iran, Jewish Lay Council, Judeo-Arabic, Letterhead, President of the Jewish Community, Printed Text, Receipts, Revenue Stamps, School Material, Shamash Secondary School, Spiritual Council, Stamps, Students, Synagogues Commission, The British Council, Thumbprint, Typed, University, University of London

AI en Translation, Pages 1-25

Page 12

Name | May Salary | For the Baghdadi Year | Date of Last Payment | Notes
Nouri Amina | 2/000 | <del>Account</del> | | He has a Spiritual Council salary 25/5/46
Mikhail Yeremia | 5/475 | 5/250 | 1/500 | 46/2/10
Yousef Hay | 2/500 | - | | He has a slaughterhouse salary 5/250 until 45/5/1
Yaqub Nazel | 7/250 | 5/250 | |
Yousef Ammo | 2/975 | 5/225 | | He has a slaughterhouse salary ⟦...⟧
Eliyahu Ibrahim | 21/000 | 7/250 | |
Musa Hadoum Samuel | 2/500 | 5/250 | | He has a slaughterhouse salary 7/000
Hezekiel Hayyim Shaker | 2/600 | 4/250 | | He has a Spiritual Council salary 4/000
Joshua Ibrahim | 4/875 | 5/250 | |
Salim Khadouri | 2/750 | 5/000 | |
Khadouri Musafi | 2/500 | 0/500 | 2/000 | 46/2/10 He has a slaughterhouse salary 11/250

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Gold policy as a central exchange as a reserve product in the precious metals trade, which on the fifteenth of
last July, the Government of South Africa announced the result of the new agreement reached between it and the Bank of England
which stipulates that the Reserve Bank of South Africa has pledged that Great Britain shall be delivered an amount of no less than
eighty million pounds sterling during the years 1946//1947, and the price of gold remains 172 shillings and six pence
per ounce, and it is possible that some changes may occur if the exchange rate of the dollar and sterling changes or if it is adjusted
by the United States, which raised its purchase price. Mr. Hugh Dalton stated that the objectives that follow prices
cannot be applied to South African gold except in special cases, while retaining some factors and adding costs
in transport, and gold exported to the United States cannot under any circumstances be subjected to political factors
and price fluctuations
Written on page
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On the sidewalk
25
1- Express something useful
2- Biography of a person, your total is 260
3- 5 days from the start of the fast
4- Principles in the defense corps

Page 21

1/8/947
Administrative Order
The Council has decided to appoint Mr. Abboudi Munshi Sofair as a clerk in the community administration with a monthly salary
of (8 Dinars) eight Dinars, to which is added a high cost of living allowance in the amount of (5.250 Dinars)
five Dinars and a quarter, effective from 15/8/947 before noon.
⟦illegible⟧
The President ⟦line⟧
Copy to
His Excellency the Head of the Community - for your kind information
Mr. Abboudi Munshi Sofair
The Accountant - to act accordingly

Page 23

The Spiritual Committee of the Jewish Community
Baghdad, may God protect it
The Israeli Spiritual Council
in Baghdad
Number: 1929
Date: 29 September 928
Moatadel Raham L' Ezra L' Nissim L' Naftali L' Salman
Honorable L' Nahum
Relying on you, we in a session dated 28/9/928 have decided as follows
There will be in L' Ezra 3 individuals after you hand over to L' Rahmani Al Ezra the school account
And that which is in L' Ezra 3 individuals shall be for L' Nahum and the rest for L' Heskel Ezra Abdallah
And this was completed for L' Ezra without others, with the date for L' Sassoon Kneshayka etc.
And the recipient from him is L' Heskel
Ezra Abdallah
Heskel Nissim
Administration of the Lay Council - Baghdad
Outgoing ⟦illegible⟧
Date ⟦illegible⟧
File Number ⟦illegible⟧
To the Honorable
Muhammad L' Hassan Al-Din Pasha L' Said
Raham L' Abraham L' Isaac L' Ezra
Yusuf ⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧

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1 / 1948
His Eminence, President of the Honorable Israeli Spiritual Council
Greetings,
The Council has reviewed your letter No. 1939 dated 1/11/1948 and has decided to approve the appointment of
Shalom Rahmani as a slaughterer in the Israeli slaughterhouse in Baghdad with a monthly salary of (4.500 Dinars)
to which cost-of-living allowances amounting to (5.250 Dinars) monthly are added, effective from the date he commences his duties
replacing the deceased Yusuf Hacham Nassim.
Please inform us of the date the aforementioned individual begins work at the slaughterhouse for the purpose of instructing the accountant to pay
his salaries accordingly. Sincerely, ⟦line⟧
Vice President
Copy to :-
His Excellency, the Head of the Community - For your kind information ⟦line⟧
The Accountant - To act accordingly ⟦line⟧
For Filing
Personnel
A. H.