AI English Translation, Pages 26-50
JEWISH LAY COUNCIL
BAGHDAD
TELEPHONE NO. 2531
The Lay Council of the Israelite Community
in Baghdad
Telephone No. 3531
Presidency of the Israelite Community
449
20 / 5 / 948
Number :: 149
Date :: 21 / 5 / 1948
Subject Summary ::
Administrative Order
After reviewing the letters of the Spiritual Council and the Slaughterhouse Presidency dated 20 / 5 / 48
and 16 / 5 / 1948, it was decided to approve the following:-
1 - Terminating the services of Rabbi Yusuf Duri from the slaughterhouse and appointing Rabbi Isaac Eliyahu
in his place with a nominal salary of five Dinars, to which cost-of-living allowances are added.
2 - Granting Moshe Elias monthly allowances of two Dinars for cost-of-living ⟦line⟧ lung examination
of sheep.
3 - Appointing Moshe Nissim Mushih as a slaughterer in the slaughterhouse in place of Rabbi Sassoon Rabbi Salman
who resigned, with a salary of four Dinars per month, to which cost-of-living allowances are added according to the scale set
for the community employees.
4 - Granting Ezra Mordechai, the former employee in the Israelite slaughterhouse, a pension salary of
(1.750 Dinars) one Dinar and seven hundred and fifty Fils, to which cost-of-living allowances are added,
in consideration of his previous services in the slaughterhouse and his old age.
5 - This decision shall be implemented as of the first of May 1948.
For filing
Vice President
Copy to :- His Eminence the President of the Community
Presidency of the Spiritual Council
Presidency of the Slaughterhouse
The Accountant - to act accordingly.
A. A.
Baghdad on May 26, 1948
His Eminence Rabbi Sassoon Khedhouri, the respected
President of the Jewish Community
in ⟦line⟧ Baghdad
Sir ⟦line⟧
In view of the approaching general examination for preparatory studies for this year, which
begins on 6/12/1948 and ends on 6/20/1948, and since I am one of the participants
in this examination, I request the favor of granting me a leave of 15 days from 6/6/1948
until 6/20/1948 to enable me to review the lessons related to this examination.
This is for your command and with highest ⟦line⟧ respect;
⟦signature⟧
Aboudi Menashi Sofer
Clerk of the Community ⟦line⟧ Administration
His Eminence the President approved
granting the leave ⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧ Personnel
⟦signature⟧
5/27/948
Baghdad 7 April 948
His Eminence, Head of the Jewish Community Council
The Honorable Rabbi David Sassoon
After greetings,
In view of the economic situation reaching an unbearable level in terms of the high cost of
living in general and bread in particular, which is impossible for an employee to bear. Therefore, we ask you
to increase our salaries in the slaughterhouse to the extent you see fit to sustain us and our children in these
difficult circumstances. Otherwise, with much regret, we will be forced to leave work on 15/4/948
inevitably.
We hope that you will appreciate our situation and grant our request. With thanks in advance.
Slaughterers of the slaughterhouse in the Jewish community
A copy to:
His Excellency Rabbi Sassoon Khedhouri, Head of the Jewish Community - Baghdad - Honorable
His Excellency the President of the Jewish Lay Council - Baghdad - Honorable
The current agent of the slaughterhouse contractor
Ezra Isaac Khedhouri
Naim Faham Eliyahu
Musa Sassoon Samuel
Salman David
Moshe David
Mansour Tweig
⟦illegible⟧
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The Lay Council of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number 5452
Number: 160
Date: 22 / 6 / 1948
Subject Summary: ⟦line⟧
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
470
Date 22 / 6 / 948
Administrative Order
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In view of the increased duties entrusted to the accountant of the community administration, Mr.
Shua Zion Shamash, and for demonstrating competence in his work and not receiving a promotion since his appointment
on the first of October 1946, the Council decided to increase his nominal salary from fifteen
dinars to twenty dinars per month, effective from the first of June 1948.
⟦signature⟧
Vice President
For filing
Personnel
Copy to ⟦line⟧ His Eminence the President of the Community ⟦line⟧
The Accountant to act accordingly ⟦line⟧
Mr. Shua Zion Shamash ⟦line⟧
On behalf of/
⟦Presidency of the Jewish Community⟧
⟦Baghdad⟧
No. 512
Date 8 / 20 / 948
His Excellency, the Respected President of the Lay Council
Sincere greetings
I received with much gratitude your letter No. 184 dated 8 / 29 / 948 and attached with it
a check for the amount of ten Dinars, representing the allocations decided to be paid to me for managing the affairs of the community's secretariat
and the Lay Council for the period from June 27, 948 until July 30, 948.
I take this opportunity to express to your Excellency that what I performed was a simple task that I undertook
in response to the request of His Excellency the Respected Head of the Community, and it was my wish that your appreciation for me for this work would be a purely
moral appreciation, despite my strong knowledge that I am not deserving of this appreciation.
Please accept, your Excellency, the assurance of my highest respect.
Sincerely,
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Meir Zakaria
8 / 30 / 948
A copy thereof to His Excellency the Head of the Community for information.
12 / for filing
Personnel proposals
The Lay Council of the Israelite Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number 5452
Number: 218
Date: 29 / 12 / 1948
The Lay Council of the Israelite Community
Baghdad
Number 586
Date 29 / 12 / 1948
Subject Summary: ⟦line⟧
Administrative Order
1 - In view of the election of His Eminence Rabbi Yaqub Ezra Musfi to the membership of
the Spiritual Council, the Council has decided to set a nominal salary for the aforementioned in the amount of (14.750
dinars) fourteen dinars and seven hundred and fifty fils per month, to which shall be added the
cost of living allowance according to the prescribed scale.
2 - Fee allowances shall be paid to the aforementioned in the amount of (7.250 dinars)
seven and a quarter dinars, similar to the other members of the Spiritual Council.
3 - The nominal salary allocated to Rabbi Yaqub Ezra Musfi
in the Yeshivoth, amounting to (5.500 dinars) per month, shall be discontinued.
4 - This administrative order shall be implemented as of the first of October 1948.
⟦signature⟧
Vice President
Copy to -
His Excellency the Head of the Community - with reference to your letter numbered 785
and dated 8 / 10 / 1948.
Presidency of the Spiritual Council
Rabbi Yaqub Ezra Musfi
The Accountant - to act accordingly
Personal File
For filing
Jewish Lay Council
In Baghdad
Telephone No. 5452
JEWISH LAY COUNCIL
BAGHDAD
TELEPHONE No. 5452
Presidency of the Jewish Community
In Baghdad
No. ⟦595⟧
Date: 2 / 1 / 49
Number :: 222
Date :: 2 / 1 / 1949
Subject Summary ::
Administrative Order
1 - The accountant of the Community Presidency shall be tasked with organizing a special register containing all information related to the personal affairs of the community employees directly linked to the Lay Council, provided that this register includes a page for each employee in which the date of appointment, promotion, leaves (both sick and ordinary), additional allowances, and bonuses are recorded, under the supervision of the Secretary.
2 - The accountant of the Community Presidency shall be responsible for organizing special files in which correspondence related to each employee is kept.
Vice President
Copy to -
His Eminence the President of the Community - for information
Presidency of the Spiritual Council } to provide the accountant with the required information as quickly as possible
Presidency of the ⟦Venerable⟧ Council } so that he may implement what is stated above
The Accountant - to immediately begin implementing what is stated above, provided that the register and files are ready for auditing at the end of the 48/1949 fiscal year
Personal File
On behalf of /
1/6/1949
Presidency of the Israelite Community:
Baghdad:
Private Number: 588
Date: 12/21/948
His Eminence Rabbi Sassoon Khedouri
The Honorable President of the Israelite Community
Sir
The esteemed Lay Council had decided to appoint me as a clerk for the Presidency of the Community as of
8/15/1947 with a nominal salary of eight dinars plus a cost-of-living allowance of five dinars
and a quarter monthly. In view of my weak condition and the low amount of this salary, I submit this petition of mine, pleading for your Eminence's mediation
with the esteemed Lay Council to consider the matter of raising my salary in view of my diligence in performing my duties with all
effort and sincerity, noting that the Secretary of the Community has personally assigned me to receive the documents and correspondence of the
Property Committee as of the date of the termination of services of the previous Property Committee clerk, Mr. Youssef Aqayreb, on 9/1/48.
I repeat my plea to consider this request of mine with kindness, and the matter is yours, sir.
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Your servant
Aboudi Menashi Sofer
Clerk of the Presidency of the Community
Baghdad on 12/31/1948
Copy to -
His Excellency the Honorable President of the Lay Council
File
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The Lay Council of the Israelite Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number 5452
Presidency of the Israelite Community
Baghdad
Number 596
Date 10 / 1 / 949
Number :: 22
Date :: 10 / 1 / 1949
Subject Summary : ⟦line⟧
Administrative Order
In view of the performance of the Presidency of the Community clerk Mr. Aboudi Menashi Sofer of his duties
in a satisfactory manner, the Council has decided to increase his nominal salary from -/8 Dinars to -/10
Dinars (ten Dinars) per month, effective from the first of January 1949, provided
that the clerical matters of the Properties Committee be considered among his duties.
Vice President
Copy to -
His Eminence the President of the Community; for information
Presidency of the Properties Committee; for information
The Accountant - to act accordingly
Personal File
The aforementioned
On behalf of/
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Special No. ⟦617⟧
Date ⟦4/2/949⟧
Baghdad, on February 3, 1948
To the respected President of the Jewish Community
Bagh-dad .
Sir
What is presented: I am a graduate of the Iraqi College of Law for the 1946 academic year, and the
venerable Ministry of Justice appointed me since January 1948 to the position of first clerk serving the Court of Cassation
for the Jewish community with a nominal salary of 15 dinars per month, and it also appointed my colleague Mr. Munshi
Saleh, a graduate of the same college, as first clerk for the Jewish Community Court with the same salary as well.
Based on the request submitted by my colleague, the Lay Council has granted him, since his appointment,
fixed allowances of 10 dinars per month, and the venerable Ministry of Justice also raised his salary on 12/26/48
to 18 dinars per month without me receiving any of that.
Sir: I offer my deep thanks and gratitude to your Excellency for your valuable recommendation submitted to the venerable Ministry of Justice
regarding my promotion, and I will never forget your efforts exerted in this regard. It is not hidden from your Excellency
that the venerable Ministry of Justice has postponed considering the matter of my promotion - which I have been waiting for impatiently throughout
the past year - until after the ratification of the state budget for the upcoming fiscal year. Accordingly, I have come
with this petition of mine, beseeching your Excellency to look kindly upon my case and to mediate with the Presidency of the Lay
Council to grant me monthly allowances, the estimation of which I leave to your high kindness and the kindness of the esteemed Lay Council,
consistent with the kindness shown to my colleague, knowing that the positions we are both appointed to and their duties and responsibilities are the same.
Please accept in advance my further thanks and respect, Mr. President.
Your servant
Musa Lawi
First Clerk of the Court of Cassation for the Community
The Jewish community in Baghdad.
2/2/49
For filing
Seen
A copy of it to -
His Excellency the Respected President of the Lay Council of the Jewish Community
Bagh-dad .
The Lay Council of the Israelite Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number 5452
Number :: 248
Date :: 6 / 2 / 1949
⟦Israelite Community⟧
620
6 / 2 / 1949
Subject Summary: ⟦line⟧
Administrative Order
Mr. Moussa Levi, the First Clerk of the Court of Cassation of the Israelite
Community in Baghdad, is granted a monthly allowance of five Dinars for the months of February
and March of the year 1949 only, in view of the low salary he receives from
the Ministry of Justice ⟦line⟧ .
Vice President
Copy to -
His Excellency the Head of the Community
The Court of Cassation of the Israelite Community
The Accountant - to act accordingly
Personal File
Mr. Moussa Levi
A. A.
The Lay Council of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number 5452
No.:
Date: 3 / 1949
⟦Presidency of the Jewish Community⟧
Subject Summary: ⟦line⟧
(( SECRET ))
ADMINISTRATIVE ORDER
Due to the deficit occurring in the accounts of the Hebra Qaddisha Society during the
period of Mr. Saleh Mukammal holding the position of Administrative Officer in the said society,
the Council has decided to suspend payment of the salary he receives from the Slaughterhouse, starting from
the first of March 1949, and to hold it in trust until the outcome of the procedures in this regard is clear.
Vice President
Copy to -
His Eminence the Head of the Community
Hebra Qaddisha Society
Presidency of the Spiritual Council
Presidency of the Slaughterhouse
The Accountant - to act accordingly
Personal File
⟦To be filed⟧
On behalf of /
The Secular Council of the Israelite Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number 5452
Number: 279
Date: 11 / 5 / 1949
Presidency of the Israelite Community
Baghdad
Private Number 684
Date 11 / 5 / 1949
Subject Summary:
Administrative Order
In view of the settlement reached between the Hebra Kadisha Society and Mr. Saleh
Hakham Ishaq Mukammal, the former administrative officer of the aforementioned society, regarding the
society's claim against him, it has been decided to lift the seizure order on the salary of the aforementioned which he receives from
the slaughterhouse (pursuant to the second paragraph of resolution No. 3 adopted in the thirty-fourth session
dated 24 / 3 / 1949) provided that two dinars are deducted from his salary
monthly starting from the month of March 1949 to be paid to the Hebra Kadisha Society until
the settlement of the debt established against him for the Hebra Kadisha Society amounting to 184/924 dinars.
Vice President
Copy to His Excellency the President of the Community - for your kind information
Hebra Kadisha Society - with reference to your letter numbered 321 and dated 4 / 5 / 949
The Accountant - to act accordingly
Mr. Saleh Hakham Ishaq Mukammal - with reference to his letter dated 4 / 5 / 1949
Personal File
For filing
11 / 5
Personnel Affairs
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The Lay Council of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number 5452
Number :: 215
Date :: 28 / 6 / 1949
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Number 716
Date 28 / 6 / 949
Subject Summary : ⟦line⟧
Administrative Order
In view of the passage of two years since the promotion of the Community Secretary Mr. Selim Khabbaza, the
Council decided to approve the promotion of his nominal salary from 32/- Dinars per month to
35/- Dinars (thirty-five Dinars) per month effective from the first of June 1949.
Vice President
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Personnel Affairs
Copy to -
His Eminence the President of the Community - for information ⟦line⟧
The Accountant - to take the ⟦line⟧ necessary action
The Personal ⟦line⟧ File
Mr. Selim Khabb⟦line⟧aza
on behalf of /
Lay Council of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number 5452
Number: 247
Date: 28 / 8 / 1949
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Subject Summary: ⟦line⟧
<del>Order</del> Administrative
Mr. Salim Khabbaza, Secretary of the Lay Council, is granted
ordinary leave for a period of nine days starting from 11 / 8 / 1949 AM
to 19 / 8 / 1949 PM.
Vice President
Copy to -
His Eminence the President of the Community
The Accountant - for marking in the personal file
The Personal File
Mr. Salim Khabbaza - with reference to his petition dated
10 / 8 / 1949.
⟦The Community⟧
⟦Ahmed⟧
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The Lay Council of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number 5452
Number :: 268
Date :: 22 / 9 / 1949
Presidency of the Jewish Community
P.O. Box 790
Date 22 / 9 / 949
Subject Summary : ⟦line⟧
Administrative Order
Mr. Shua Sion Shamash, the Accountant for the Presidency of the Community, is granted
ordinary leave for a period of fifteen days starting from 4 / 9 / 1949 before noon
until 18 / 9 / 1949 after noon ⟦line⟧ .
⟦signature⟧
Vice President
Copy to -
His Excellency the President of the Community
Personal File - for notation
Mr. Shua Sion Shamash
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The Lay Council of the Jewish Community:
In Baghdad:
Telephone Number: 5452
Number :: 284
Date :: 11/16/1949
Subject Summary :: ⟦line⟧
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Number 857
Date 11/16/1949
To the esteemed Mr. Heskel Shohet, the respected
Greetings,
The Council has reviewed your letter addressed to the President of
the General Council dated October 27, 1949, and has decided
unanimously to reject your resignation from the membership of the Lay Council, with the request that you
continue your membership until a new Lay Council is elected.
Please accept our respect,
Sincerely,
⟦illegible⟧
Vice President
Copy to -
The President of the Community
A.A.
T/1224 / 950
12 / 3 / 1950
Administrative Order
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Miss Sabiha Youssef, the religion teacher at Hadiya Munshi
Saleh School for Girls, is granted a regular leave of ten days starting Tuesday,
14 / 3 / 1950, with full salary, provided that the enjoyment of this leave is subject
to the approval of the school principal.
⟦signature⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
Copy to -
The Principal of Hadiya Munshi Saleh School
Miss Sabiha Youssef - with reference to her petition dated
12 / 3 / 1950
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The honorable Professor Ali Al-Khaqani, respected
Owner of the distinguished Al-Bayan magazine
Najaf Al-Ashraf
Greetings and respect,
Further to the above, I offer you my sincere thanks for your kindness in sending five copies of the
last issue of your distinguished magazine.
Enclosed is a postal order in the amount of two dinars, requesting it be credited for our subscription to your
distinguished magazine starting from the sixth issue.
I take this opportunity to offer you my sincere greetings coupled with my wishes
for your distinguished magazine's prosperity and success.
Please accept our highest regards,
Sincerely,
⟦signature⟧
On behalf of the Head of the Community
Attachments
Postal order in the amount of two dinars
Money Order
Number 268
8 / 12 / 1946
Al-Bayan Agency
Number: 143
Receipt: Registered Letter
Addressed to: Ali Al-Jubouri
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Dinar:
Value of stamps affixed (if it is a package):
Entry "Letter" bundle or "Package" as the case requires: Letter
Insured items:
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BAGHDAD
10 JUL 46
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Receiving Officer
Voice of
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A Daily Political Newspaper
Baghdad - Al-Midan Quarter 3/3 Telephone 5232
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To
The Israelite Community
Baghdad
Our Newspaper Number
Your subscription had ended on 30 / 6 / 47 and according to our past practice and since this
method had ceased publication for a period of two months, we have decided to compensate you for this period and made
your subscription continuous as of 28 / 2 / 47. Please be so kind as to pay an amount of [2/500] Dinars for the
subscription fee for the period from 1 / 3 / 47 until 31 / 12 / 47 for a period of ten months, in view of our desire
to unify the subscription budget. With highest respect.
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The Honorable Professor Muhammad Raif al-Sawawi, Respectfully
Editor-in-Chief of the esteemed Al-Shura newspaper
After greetings,
With reference to your recently published newspaper, a copy of the first issue
of which was sent to us.
We deeply regret our inability to subscribe to your newspaper due to the exhaustion of the funds
allocated for this purpose.
Please accept our highest respect.
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Head of the Community
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