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Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone No. 3531
5452
No. T/ 58/
Date 6/8/1958
Subject:
His Excellency the Military Governor General ⟦Respectfully⟧
Greetings and Respects
It is no secret to your Excellency that our Mosaic community consumes meat slaughtered according to the rituals of the Mosaic Law, and the costs of
selling it are always higher than the prices of other meats.
Since the High Supply Committee has fixed the price of a kilogram of mutton at two hundred fils, we request your Excellency's approval
to sell meat designated for the Mosaic community as before, at a price of 285 fils per kilogram, and we list below the names of the butchers and their
places of work.
Please accept our highest respect
Issued
Rabbi Sassoon Khidhouri
Acting President of the Community
Name of Butcher | Place of Work
1 - Isaac Asher | Hanoun Market
2 - Isaac Ezra | " "
3 - Khammas Aziz | " "
4 - Moshe Shallo | Bataween Bustan al-Khass
5 - Shawqi Ahmed | " "
6 - Zion Buban | Bataween Market
7 - Rabi Mohammed | " "
8 - Ali Hussein | Al-Alwiyah Market
9 - Mahdi Saleh | " "
10 - Dawood Yusuf | Al-Rakhita Market
Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number { 3531 President
5452 Secretary
Number: T / 581
Subject:
Date: 6 / 8 / 1958
His Excellency the Director of Baghdad Land Registry - Al-Rusafa - Respected
After greetings
Since the Mayoralty of the Capital has expropriated a part of the property belonging to this Presidency
Sequence 1/574 located in Faraj Allah neighborhood, therefore we request your Excellency to order the fixing of the boundaries
for the remaining plot belonging to us, and also please provide us with two copies of the land registry record and two maps.
Please accept our highest respect
Rabbi Sassoon Khadhuri
Acting President of the Community
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To the Director of the Baghdad Al-Rusafa Land Registry
Submitted for your excellency's consideration
I request the dispatch of the competent employee to the property with serial number 574/1 and numbered ⟦...⟧
Located in Faraj Allah neighborhood, for the purpose of establishing the boundaries and providing us with the land registry map
For the remaining part of this property, and it is for you to decide
To the Director of the Baghdad Land Registry
⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧ 574/1 ⟦...⟧
Therefore, please order the establishment of the boundaries ⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧
Dimshiya
Head of the Community
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19/⟦...⟧
To ⟦...⟧
Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone No. { 3531 President
5452 Secretary
Number T/: 581
Subject:
Date: 10 / 8 / 1958
His Excellency the Director of Land Registry of Baghdad Province - Rusafa - Respected
After greetings
Please provide us with copies of the registration and maps for the properties sequence 434, 432, 430 and 418
Al-Tawrat neighborhood belonging to this Presidency.
Please accept our highest respect
Rabbi Sassoon Khedhouri
Acting President of the Community
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The Mosaic Community Committee
In Baghdad
Telephone No. 3531
5452
No: T/ 58/
Date: 8/ 8/ 1958
Subject:
To the respected Manager of the Ottoman Bank
After greetings
The Frank Iny School belonging to this presidency has a current account in your bank under No. 3088 and the
Administrative Committee of Iraqi Jews has restricted withdrawals and deposits for this account to Messrs. Munir Shaoul Basri, Heskel Yusuf
Setty, and Mr. Abdullah Shaoul Abidya, provided that checks are signed by any two of these aforementioned persons
and we list below a copy of their signatures.
Please accept our highest respect
Rabbi Sassoon Khidhouri
Acting President of the Community
Signature Sample | Signature Sample | Signature Sample
Abdullah Shaoul Abidya | Heskel Yusuf Setty | Munir Shaoul Basri
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number 3531
5452
Number: T/581
Date: 27 / 8 / 1958
Subject: Removing external electrical installations from a dangerous wall.
⟦JC⟧
His Excellency the Director of the Baghdad Province Electricity Service, Respectfully
After greetings
Due to the danger of the wall in the property numbered 40 D / 233 Al-Sinak Street belonging to this Presidency,
Please kindly instruct the removal of the electrical installations connected to it from the outside to enable us to demolish the wall and rebuild it
anew.
Please accept our highest respect.
/ Rabbi Sasson Khedouri
Acting President of the Community
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8/27
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These fences
Due to the danger of the wall in property No. 40/4 C Banks Street, which belongs to the endowments of your community
Please kindly give instructions to remove the structures attached to it from the outside
So that we can demolish the wall and rebuild it
With our thanks.
Please accept our highest respect
on behalf of ⟦illegible⟧
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Tawfiq
5/11
Presidency of the Israelite Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number { 3531
5452
Number T/ ⟦58/8⟧
Date 1/9/1958
Subject:
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Honorable Director of Customs and Excise of Baghdad
After greetings
We request your approval to allow us to export 39 Sefer Torahs outside of Iraq, 22 of them to Iran, 16
to Australia, and one to Canada. They are kept on parchment inside wooden boxes and wrapped in silver foil.
Please accept our highest respect
Rabbi Sassoon Khedhouri
Acting Head of the Community
Sassoon
A copy to:-
Directorate General of Antiquities
Directorate General of Broadcasting and Guidance
" General Trade
" Foreign Exchange
Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number { 3531 President
5452 Secretary
Number: T / 58 / ⟦illegible⟧
Date: 3 / 6 / 1958
Subject: ⟦line⟧
Honorable Director of Central Telephones
Greetings,
Due to the danger of the property wall numbered 40 D / 233 in the Al-Sinak district, which requires the demolition of
the wall, and due to the presence of telephone wires on this wall, please give instructions to remove these wires
so that we may proceed with the demolition of the aforementioned wall.
Please accept our highest respect.
Rabbi Sassoon Khadhuri
Acting President of the Community
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Excellency ⟦illegible⟧ Director ⟦illegible⟧ respected
Due to the high volume of official property tax collection ⟦...⟧
which requires <del>⟦illegible⟧</del> collection, and due to the presence of ⟦...⟧
Please instruct to grant the wire collectors ⟦...⟧
With high respect
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Wire campaign
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Presidency of the Israelite Community
in Baghdad
Telephone No. { 3531 President
5452 Secretary
Number: T / 58
Subject: ⟦line⟧
Date: 3 / 9 / 1958
The Honorable Mr. Yaqub Munshi Khedhouri
President of the Mosaic Community in Basra, Respected
After greetings,
I received your letter numbered 315 and dated 22 / 6 / 58 and reviewed all its contents.
We are sending you by mail the Shofar that Mr. Ephraim Munshi in London requested; I hope you will send it
to him, and I am also returning his letter attached within your aforementioned letter.
On the occasion of the arrival of the Hebrew New Year, I pray to the Creator to return it to you
and to all members of our community with goodness and blessings.
Please accept my highest respect,
Rabbi Sassoon Khedhouri
Acting President of the Community
PRESIDENT OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
BASRAH (IRAQ)
Telephone No. 05-395 | ⟦2857⟧
No :
Date :
His Eminence Rabbi Sassoon Khedouri, President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad, respected
Greetings,
We refer to your letter numbered ⟦illegible⟧/7/81 No. T 58/10/8, and based on what was stated therein, we have sent
⟦illegible⟧ the burial for the death, and as you mentioned in ⟦illegible⟧ it has become known
that our letter No. 47 between and the delay in answering it until ⟦illegible⟧/6/8, and since it occurred
with the competent departments, His Excellency of Rights, to postpone work according to instructions ⟦illegible⟧ and since the budget
also has the duty that compels us to perform religious rituals for these deceased and bury them in the cemetery designated for us
⟦illegible⟧ constructing graves for each one, and by studying it, we complain with a word that everything in the cemetery is empty houses
and we placed each one separately in the (Alna) cemetery due to the lack of rent and sale, but rather purchasing graves for every poor person from
⟦illegible⟧ the dead, and there donations are made by the relatives of the deceased, which is what some offer for the dead
⟦illegible⟧ your concern and with an amount of money in advance for the purpose of spending Mr. Ephraim Meshaal according to instructions
⟦illegible⟧ and mentioning ⟦illegible⟧ lands and houses
⟦illegible⟧ that the buried persons are 60, among them adults and children from poor families of the dead
⟦illegible⟧ the dead among them the late Zaboun Khedouri and Abdullah Cohen, my maternal uncle, the house of Shaul, and you know well that
⟦illegible⟧ non-employees, and they were distributed according to religious principles for each one with conscience, and what came in the last paragraph for lack of verification
⟦illegible⟧ in building each of these graves in it
⟦illegible⟧ Mr. Ephraim searches for the deceased, requesting a death certificate and its certification, and where there is no ⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧ from their families ⟦illegible⟧ and the poor ⟦illegible⟧ the owner in ⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧ for the sake of God, thanking your cooperation with us, and please accept our highest respect
TELEPHONE :
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3451
President of the Jewish Community
BAGHDAD
No.: ⟦73⟧
BAGHDAD: 4th September, 1958
His Eminence,
The Haham of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews,
London.
My dear Haham,
1. I acknowledge with the greatest pleasure your
letter of 29th August 1958, with your good wishes,
on the occasion of the New Year, for my Community
and for the people and Government of Iraq. In my
turn, I pray the Almighty God to send to your Sephardi
Community, and indeed to all the nations of the world
a year of peace, prosperity and understanding.
2. I have taken note of the contents of your second
letter also dated 29th August 1958, concerning the
guet of Farha, daughter of Ezra Khadi. I shall be much
obliged if you will let me know about the delivery of
the guet to the said woman in due course.
With all best wishes, and kindest regards,
I am, my dear Haham,
Very truly yours,
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Rabbi Sassoon Khedoury
Act. President.
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number: 3531 / 5452
Number: T / 58 / ⟦illegible⟧
Date: 7 / 9 / 1958
Subject: ⟦line⟧
His Excellency, the Respected General Director of Police
Greetings,
On the occasion of the arrival of the Mosaic holidays (New Year, Kippur, and Sukkot), and since during these holidays followers of the Mosaic faith
frequently visit places of worship (synagogues) - whose names are listed below - to perform religious rituals, your Excellency is requested to order
the dispatch of some of your force members to these synagogues during the following days: -
The evenings and mornings of the days 14, 15, 16, 23, 24, 28, 29, and 30 of the month of September of the year 1958, and 5, 6, and 7 of the month
of October of the year 1958.
Please accept our highest respect.
Rabbi Sassoon Khadhuri
Acting President of the Community
1 - Al-Rakhita Synagogue | - | in Al-Rakhita neighborhood
2 - Al-Alwiya Synagogue | - | in Al-Alwiya neighborhood
3 - Taweig Synagogue | - | in Al-Bataween neighborhood
4 - Ezra Dawood Synagogue | - | in Al-Orfaliya neighborhood
5 - Masuda Shetoub Synagogue | - | in Al-Orfaliya neighborhood
6 - Shemash Synagogue | - | in Al-Sa'adoon neighborhood
7 - Zelkha Synagogue | - | in Al-Tawrah neighborhood
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14 Rajab 1368 and ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧
and 70 of September year 1958 and ⟦illegible⟧
and 7 of October year 1958
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number { 3531
5452
Urgent
Number 78
Date 17 / 9 / 1958
Subject: Removal of electrical wires
Honorable Director of the Baghdad Electricity Service
Greetings and Respect
The Secretariat of the Capital has notified us in its letter numbered 19952 and dated 14 / 9 / 58
and delivered to us on 17 / 9 / 58 of the necessity of demolishing dangerous shops in the property at door number
78 / 127 located in the Torah neighborhood within three days from the date of our notification, and since
there are electrical installations on the mentioned property, please order their removal,
And please accept our highest respect
Rabbi Sassoon Khadhuri
Acting President of the Community
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number { 3531 President
5452 Secretary
Number T/: 58/8
Subject: ⟦line⟧
Date: 2/10/1958
Dear Miss Qanawati
Respectable Principal of the Khan Menachem Daniel School
After greetings
Please accept the students Habib Shaul and Ezra Shaul for free in your school
And I thank you in advance
Rabbi Sassoon Khedouri
Acting President of the Community
Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone No. { 3531 President
5452 Secretary
Number: T/58/
Subject: ⟦line⟧
Date: 8 / 10 / 1958
His Excellency in charge of French Interests respected
- The Swiss Legation -
Greetings and respect
With reference to your letter numbered B 72 and dated 3/9/58 regarding the issuance of marriage
and birth certificates for the persons mentioned in your above-referenced letter, this Presidency has previously contacted you
by telephone.
1 - Regarding providing us with the full names of the husband and wife to enable the issuance of marriage certificates for that.
2 - As for the issuance of birth certificates, we have excused ourselves from doing so due to the lack of special records
regarding the dates of birth of members of our community, and we have not received your reply regarding the first paragraph, so please if
it is within your power, provide the required information.
Please accept the expression of our highest respect
Rabbi Sassoon Khadhuri
Acting Head of the Community
Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone No. { 3531 President
5452 Secretary
Ref. No. T/: 58/⟦...⟧
Subject:
Date: 12 / 10 / 1958
His Excellency the Official in Charge of French Interests
— Swiss Legation —
Greetings and Respect,
With reference to your letter No. B 72 dated 3 / 9 / 58 regarding the issuance of certificates
of marriage and birth for the persons mentioned in your above-referenced letter, this
Presidency previously contacted you by telephone ⟦line⟧ :
1 - Regarding providing us with the full names of the husband and wife to enable the issuance of the marriage certificates
accordingly.
2 - As for the issuance of birth certificates, we have declined because there are no specific records
regarding the birth dates of the members of our community, and we have not received your reply regarding the first paragraph, so please if
it is possible, provide us with what is required.
Please accept our highest respect.
Rabbi Sassoon Khedouri
Acting President of the Community
Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
3531 President )
5452 Secretary ) Telephone Number
Number: 58/T
Subject:
Date: 10/8/1958
His Excellency the Official in Charge of French Interests Respectfully
- Swiss Legation -
Greetings and respect
With reference to your letter numbered B 72 and dated 9/3/58 regarding the issuance of marriage
and birth certificates for the persons mentioned in your above-referenced letter, this Presidency has previously
contacted you by telephone.
1 - Regarding providing us with the full names of the husband and wife in order to be able to issue marriage certificates accordingly.
2 - As for the issuance of birth certificates, we have apologized for that due to the lack of special records
concerning the birth dates of the members of our community, and we have not received your reply regarding the first paragraph, so please if
you are able to provide what is required.
Please accept our highest respect
Rabbi Sassoon Khadhuri
Acting Head of the Community
⟦Basim Saleh⟧
Presidency of the Israelite Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number { 3531 President
5452 Secretary
Number: T / 58
Subject: ⟦line⟧
Date: ⟦line⟧
Excellency, Director General of Social Services
After greetings
Based on the expiration of your lease for the Al-Rashid shelter and the Alliance school shelter, and since
some refugee families are still residing in both shelters, please instruct them as a matter of
urgency to vacate the leased premises.
Please accept the assurances of my highest respect
Rabbi Sassoon Khadhuri
Acting President of the Community
Presidency of the Israelite Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number { 3531 President
5452 Secretary
Number: T / 58 / ⟦...⟧
Subject:
Date: 28 / 10 / 1958
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His Excellency, Director of Land Registry Baghdad - Rusafa - Respectfully
After greetings
Please provide us with two copies of the properties sequence 246, 245, and 244 in the Ra's al-Qarya neighborhood
al-Qarya - Jami' Sharif - Baghdad.
And please accept our highest respect
Rabbi Sassoon Khadhuri
Acting Head of the Community
Land Registry
Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
3531 President }
5452 Secretary } Telephone Number
⟦8⟧
Number: T / 86 / 58
Subject:
Date: 29 / 10 / 1958
His Excellency the Director of Land Registry of Baghdad Governorate - Rusafa - Respectfully
⟦Outgoing⟧
Greetings,
Please provide us with a registration copy for each of the properties whose sequence numbers are listed below
and which belong to the Alliance School for Girls in the Taura neighborhood.
Please accept our highest respect.
Rabbi Sassoon Khadhuri
Acting President of the Community
⟦Telephone⟧
1 - Sequence 454 Permanent (327 A) {
2 - Sequence 513 { Taura neighborhood - Baghdad
Presidency of the Committee
Administrative for the Jewish Community
Baghdad on ⟦line⟧
Sequence 454 Permanent 1207
Torah School Baghdad
Youssef, Torah Quarter
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