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Personal Affairs (Miscellaneous)
IJA 3719
Employee Information, Correspondence with Newspapers, President of the Jewish Community & Jewish Lay Council
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This item contains documents from the President of the Jewish Community and the Jewish Lay Council concerning administrative and employment matters such as the distribution of pensions and salary increases. The item also contains correspondence between the President of the Jewish Council and many Iraqi newspapers and magazines about subscriptions and requests to publish statements and speeches by members of the Jewish Community.
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Jewish Lay Council of the Jewish Community in Baghdad Telephone Number 3531 JEWISH LAY COUNCIL BAGHDAD TELEPHONE NO. 3531 No. : Date: 6 / 7 / 947 Subject Summary: Promotion of Employees His Excellency the President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad, Respectfully After greetings, I list for you below a copy of the Lay Council resolution No. 7 taken on 26 / 6 / 1947 For your kind review, please accept our respect. ⟦illegible⟧ The President Employee Name | Salary Before Promotion | Promotion Amount | Salary After Promotion Rabbi Sassoon Khedhouri | 50.000 | 4.000 | 54.000 Salim Murad Khabbaza | 30.000 | 2.000 | 32.000 Menua Zion Shamash | 15.000 | --- | Nothing The Doorman Gul Muhammad | 5.000 | --- | 5.000 The Attendant Salman Shaloul | 4.500 | --- | 4.500 The Attendant Shaul Yaqub | 4.500 | --- | 4.500 The Attendant Ibrahim Yusuf | 4.500 | --- | 4.500 Ms. Nessim Heskel | 4.000 | --- | 4.000 The Council has decided to pay cost-of-living allowances to all those mentioned according to the established scale and set the cost-of-living allowances for the community secretary Salim Khabbaza according to the established scale as well. Copy to The Accountant of the Lay Council - to act accordingly
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Telegram 11 Internal and External Intermediate Telegram Iraqi Posts and Telegraphs Administration Number: 451 Registration time: 12/15 Telegram Type: ⟦U⟧ Received at 7 o'clock 10 minutes From ⟦Mosul⟧ Received by ⟦S. A⟧ | Sent at ⟦line⟧ hour ⟦line⟧ minute To ⟦line⟧ Serial Number ⟦line⟧ Dispatched by ⟦line⟧ 20 AUG 47 ⟦Mosul⟧ Department Stamp Words: 9 Notes: Date: 20/8 Issuing Office: Mosul To Baghdad, Secretary of the Jewish Community Due to train crowding, we are delayed until tomorrow Shua The Jewish Community
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The Lay Council of the Jewish Community in Baghdad Telephone Number 531 Summary of the Subject: Number:: Date:: 1/8/947 Administrative Order The Council has decided to appoint Mr. Aboudi Menashi Sofair as a clerk for the Community administration with a monthly salary of (8/- Dinars) eight Dinars to which is added high cost of living allowances in the amount of (5/250 Dinars) five Dinars and a quarter effective from 15/8/947 forenoon. ⟦illegible signature⟧ The President A copy to His Excellency the Head of the Community - for kind information Mr. Aboudi Menashi Sofair The Accountant - to act accordingly Presidency of ⟦illegible⟧ Number ⟦illegible⟧ Date ⟦21 / 8 / 947⟧
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JEWISH LAY COUNCIL JEWISH LAY COUNCIL IN BAGHDAD BAGHDAD TELEPHONE NO. 3531 TELEPHONE NO. 3531 Number :: Date :: /8/947 His Eminence the President of the Honorable Spiritual Council: Subject Summary: After greetings With reference to your two letters numbered 871 and 1874 dated 6/8/947 regarding the new formations in the Religious Court and the Sharia Court of Cassation. I list below a copy of this Council's resolution No. (4) taken in the session of August 28, 947, for your information and to notify the concerned parties of its content. Please accept our respect! The President Copy to His Eminence the Head of the Community - for information The Accountant - to act accordingly Draft Resolution 4 - After reviewing the two letters of the Spiritual Council numbered 871 and 1874 dated 6/8/947 The Council decided the following:- First - Given the election of His Eminence Rabbi Salman Hooki Aboodi as President of the Spiritual Council in the General Council session held on August 4, 947, his nominal salary shall be (21/500 Dinars) monthly instead of (17/- Dinars). Second - Given the election of His Eminence Rabbi Yehoshua Moshi Hesqel as President of the Religious Court on 5/8/947, his nominal salary shall be (17/000 Dinars) monthly instead of (14/750 Dinars) with the increase in high cost of living allowances at the prescribed amount. Third - Given the election of His Eminence Rabbi Moshi Ibrahim as a member of the Spiritual Council in the General Council session held on August 4, 947, his nominal salary shall be (14/750 Dinars) monthly to which (5/250 Dinars) shall be added as high cost of living allowances and (7/250 Dinars) as fees allowances, provided that all salaries he currently receives from the Community Fund are cancelled, whether in his capacity as an alternate member of the Spiritual Council or the Kahbub. Fourth - Given the election of His Eminence Rabbi Saleh Yusuf Hayyim as an alternate member of the Spiritual Council in the session of 5/8/947, it was decided to grant him a salary of five Dinars monthly without high cost of living allowances. These increases and allocations shall be implemented as of each of their aforementioned dates.
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JEWISH LAY COUNCIL BAGHDAD TELEPHONE NO. 3531 The Lay Council of the Jewish Community in Baghdad Telephone No. 3531 Presidency of the Jewish Community Baghdad Private Number ⟦...⟧ Date ⟦...⟧ Number :: Date :: 11 / 1 / 1948 Subject Summary: His Eminence the President of the Honorable Jewish Spiritual Council Greetings, The Council has reviewed your letter No. 1939 dated 11 / 1 / 1948 and decided to approve the appointment of Shalom Rahmani as a slaughterer in the Jewish slaughterhouse in Baghdad with a monthly salary of (4.500 Dinars) to which is added a high-cost-of-living allowance in the amount of (5.250 Dinars) monthly starting from the date of his commencement instead of the deceased Yosef Hakham Nassim. Please inform us of the date the aforementioned person begins at the slaughterhouse for the purpose of instructing the accountant to pay his salaries accordingly. Best regards; ⟦illegible signature⟧ Vice President Copy to ⟦line⟧ His Eminence the President of the Community - for your kind information The Accountant - to act accordingly A.
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THE JEWISH LAY COUNCIL IN BAGHDAD TELEPHONE NO. 3531 JEWISH LAY COUNCIL BAGHDAD TELEPHONE NO. 3531 ⟦illegible⟧ Number :: ⟦122⟧ Date :: 5 / 4 / 1948 Subject Summary :: Administrative Order Based on the issuance of Royal Decrees appointing their Eminences the Rabbis to their new positions and granting them lump-sum allowances in the amount of twenty Dinars to the members of the Court of Cassation and fifteen Dinars to the members of the Court of First Instance, effective from 6 / 1 / 1948, the Lay Council has decided the following :- First - Granting them the difference between their original salaries and the allowances paid to them by the Ministry of Justice starting from the date mentioned above until the end of March 1948. Second - Granting their Eminences the Rabbis whose names follow the following lump-sum allowances monthly starting from the first of April 1948, provided that they be reconsidered when the Ministry of Justice decides to adjust their current allowances and increase them to the appropriate limit :- Fils Dinar Rabbi Salman Khochi | President of the Court of Cassation | 23 | 000 | Twenty-three Dinars Rabbi Yehoshua Moshi | President of the Court of First Instance | 23 | 000 | Twenty-three Dinars Rabbi Yosef Rabie | Member of the Court of First Instance | 17 | 250 | Seventeen Dinars and a quarter Rabbi Elia Yehoshua | Member of the Court of Cassation | 13 | 250 | Thirteen Dinars and a quarter Rabbi Daoud Shaul | Member of the Court of First Instance | 21 | 750 | Twenty-one Dinars and 750 Fils (This includes allowances for performing clerical matters for the Spiritual Council amounting to 3.500 Dinars) | | | | Rabbi Daoud Musfi | Member of the Court of Cassation | 8 | 500 | Eight Dinars and a half Third - Continuing to pay the salary of each of Rabbi Moshi Abraham and Rabbi Sasson Ishaq amounting to (27.250 Dinars) in their capacity as members of the Spiritual Council. Fourth - Granting the clerk of the Religious Court, Mr. Heskel Qattan, the difference between his previous salary and the salary granted to him by the Ministry of Justice for his services from the date of his appointment on 2 / 3 / 1948 amounting to (2.250 Dinars) per month, provided that this decision is reconsidered in case of a salary adjustment by the Ministry. Fifth - Stopping the salaries of the bailiffs and servants in the Court of Cassation and the Court of First Instance starting from the date they are granted their salaries by the Ministry of Justice. ⟦signature⟧ Vice President Copy to :- His Eminence the Head of the Community His Eminence the President of the Court of Cassation - for information His Eminence the President of the Court of First Instance - for information The Accountant - to act accordingly Archive E / 1 ⟦illegible red ink notes⟧
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To the Honorable President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad Greetings and respect. My husband, Hakham Isaac Meir son of Hakham Salem, was employed in several positions at the Jewish Religious Court in Baghdad for a period exceeding (24) years, and he performed his duties in the best manner as is known to your Excellency. His last salary was six and a half Dinars, including the high cost of living allowance. With this meager salary, he struggled against the distress that gripped him until it caused his death. He left me with his mother and his young children, who are three daughters and a son, including one of his daughters who is ill with tuberculosis. We remain between ruin and hunger without any other supporter, which forced me to knock on the door of your kindness to intercede with the venerable Secular Council to continue paying us the salary of the deceased that he used to receive, so that we may be saved from the evils of hunger and want as a reward for his services and to rescue us from certain death. This is for your Excellency's command. ⟦line⟧ 23 February 1948 Wife of the deceased Hakham Isaac Meir Kingdom of Iraq 40 Fils Revenues Habiba daughter of Abdul Nabi
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Baghdad on 2/26/1948 His Eminence the President of the Jewish Court of Appeals in Baghdad, the respected. I, Nissim Saqeel Dahan, the clerk employed in the Court of Appeals for the Jewish community in Baghdad, have commenced my duties in this court since the date 1/4/1948. Given the issuance of my appointment order on 2/18/1948 according to the Ministry of Justice letter No. 227 dated 2/18/1948 I no longer have the right to claim my salaries from the Ministry for the period preceding the issuance of the ministerial order referred to, despite the Council's letter addressed to the esteemed Ministry of Justice No. 1/16 dated 2/19/1948, which stated the date I commenced work, which preceded the date the ministerial order was issued referred to and rejected by the esteemed Ministry of Justice in its letter No. Dh/2/1 dated 2/24/1948. Thus, my commencement in this court became effective from 2/18/1948 in accordance with what was stated in the ministerial order referred to above. Therefore, I have come with this letter of mine, appealing to Your Eminence to mediate with the leadership of the Jewish community in Baghdad to resolve this issue. I offer Your Eminence my further thanks and respect. Nissim Saqeel Dahan ⟦signature⟧ Clerk of the Jewish Court of Appeals Presidency of the Jewish Community: Baghdad: Special Number: 707 Date: 2/27/1948 His Excellency the President of the Jewish Community, the respected We request you to kindly mediate with the esteemed Ministry of Justice to pay the salary of the clerk Nissim Saqeel Dahan, who commenced from the date he started work, i.e., from 1/4/1948 And in the event that this is not possible, we request mediation with the Lay Council to pay his salary for the aforementioned period, as he actually performed the duties of clerk of the Jewish Rabbinical Court of Appeals starting from 1/4/1948, i.e., the date of the start of the work of the aforementioned Court of Appeals in commencing its duties after the issuance of the Royal Decree providing for its formation. With great respect. Baghdad 2/26/1948 Salman Saka Aboudi A. El-Zah President of the Jewish Rabbinical Court of Appeals
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828 on 20 / 5 / ⟦illegible⟧ Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad - The Lay Council Based on the decision of the Administration Committee No. 4 on 18 / 5 / 948, approved by the Lay Council in its session held on 20 / 5 / 948, it was decided to grant the employee Mr. Selim Shaoul Meer an annual increase of three dinars per month starting from 1 / 4 / 948 relative to his salary of 27.500 dinars, and thus his salary becomes 30.500 dinars per month starting from the mentioned date, provided that the amounts he received in excess of his original salary relative to his salary of 25 dinars per month from 1 / 4 / 1947 until 31 / 3 / 948 are deducted from this salary according to the decision of the Administration Committee No. 10 on 1 / 6 / 947, approved by the Lay Council in its session held on 3 / 6 / 947, which decided to promote the mentioned employee relative to his salary of 25 dinars per month to 27.500 dinars per month starting from 1 / 4 / 947 until 31 / 3 / 948. Since this promotion has been canceled by the decision taken at its session held on 20 / 5 / 948 mentioned above, it is necessary to recover the amounts received by the mentioned employee in excess of his original salary of 25 dinars per month during the period between 1 / 4 / 947 until 31 / 3 / 948 at a rate of 2.500 dinars per month. President of the Jewish Community In Baghdad Salman Shina Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad Number: ⟦illegible⟧ Date: ⟦illegible⟧ A copy to the accounting department for implementation Based on the decision of the Administration Committee No. 4 on 18 / 5 / 948 approved by the Lay Council in its session held on 20 / 5 / 948, please take the necessary action regarding the recovery of the amounts received by the employee Mr. Selim Shaoul Meer in excess of his original salary of 25 dinars per month during the period between 1 / 4 / 947 until 31 / 3 / 948, amounting to 2.500 dinars per month under the canceled promotion decision, and granting him the annual increase of 3 dinars per month starting from 1 / 4 / 948, provided that the recovered amounts are deducted from the mentioned annual increase. President of the Jewish Community
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JEWISH LAY COUNCIL BAGHDAD TELEPHONE NO. 3531 The Lay Council of the Israelite Community in Baghdad Telephone Number 3531 Number:: Date:: Subject Summary:: ( 2 ) Likewise, the rest of the grant costs regarding the Hospitals Committee and other community institutions shall be paid from the community fund ⟦...⟧ F- The aforementioned grant, as well as the salaries of the community's officials and employees for the current month of April, shall be paid on the 22nd of it in view of the occurrence of the Passover holiday. G- The expected surplus in the budget of the Lay Council for the fiscal year 1948/1949 shall be allocated to cover the expenses of the aforementioned grant. In view of this, the construction of the second floor of the community administration headquarters is postponed for the time being, according to Council Decision No. (4) taken in the fourteenth session on 3/18/1948, until the necessary amount for this project is available. ⟦line⟧ On behalf of /
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JEWISH LAY COUNCIL BAGHDAD TELEPHONE NO. 3531 Lay Council of the Jewish Community in Baghdad Telephone Number 3531 Number: 127 Date: 10 / 5 / 1948 Presidency of the Jewish Community 440 10 / 5 / 48 Subject Summary: Administrative Order The Council reviewed the letter of Rabbi Sassoon Hakham Salman dated April 22, 1948 containing his resignation from the slaughterhouse and decided to accept it as of the date of his separation. It also decided to increase his salary amounting to (4.100 Dinars) monthly in the Heshibot to (6.100 Dinars) six dinars and one hundred fils, from the date of his separation from the slaughterhouse as well. ⟦signature⟧ Vice President Copy to: His Excellency the Head of the Community His Eminence the Head of the Jewish Slaughterhouse Rabbi Sassoon Hakham Salman The Accountant - to act accordingly For filing Personnel A / 1
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JEWISH LAY COUNCIL JEWISH LAY COUNCIL IN BAGHDAD BAGHDAD TELEPHONE NO. 3531 TELEPHONE NO. 3531 Presidency of the Jewish Community 441 10/5/48 Number: 128 Date: 10 / 5 / 1948 Subject Summary: ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER 1 - In view of what appeared to the Council that the high cost of living allowance granted to Rabbi Dawood Masfi Head of the Slaughterhouse, amounting to (3/750 Dinars) monthly, is less than the amount decided according to the scale of high cost of living allowances, it decided to increase the mentioned allowances and make them (5/750 Dinars) effective from the first of May 1948. 2 - In view of what appeared to the Council regarding the low salary of Rabbi Yaqub Masfi in the Yeshivot and its disproportion with what his colleagues receive, it decided to increase his salary from (3/500 Dinars) to (5/500 Dinars) monthly effective from the first of May 1948. ⟦illegible⟧ Vice President Copy to :- His Excellency the President of the Community His Eminence Rabbi Dawood Ezra Masfi His Eminence Rabbi Yaqub Ezra Masfi Accountant - to act accordingly For filing Personnel on behalf of /
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The Lay Council of the Israelite Community in Baghdad Telephone Number 531 Presidency of the Community ⟦...⟧ Incoming Number 450 Date 20 / 5 / 948 Subject Summary: Number :: Date :: 20 / 5 / 1948 Administrative Order After reviewing the letter from Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Rabie dated 7 / 4 / 1948. And in view of what appeared to the Council regarding the insufficiency of his nominal salary, it was decided to raise his salary from 25/500 to 26/500 Dinars (twenty-six and a half Dinars), provided that the allowances he receives from the Ministry of Justice, amounting to 15/000 Dinars per month, are deducted from this salary, effective from the first of May 1948. Copy to -- His Excellency the President of the Community Presidency of the Spiritual Council Rabbi Yosef Eliyahu Rabie The Accountant, to act accordingly Vice President ⟦signature⟧ For filing ⟦...⟧