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IJA 3331

Verification Certificates of Baghdadi Jewish Community Members

Description

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are: marriage certificates from the President of the Jewish; birth certificates of a father and son; request for divorce and marriage certificates; receipts from the Jewish Lay Council; request from the President of the Jewish community to facilitate hiring teachers for Jewish schools; some certificates translated to English and Judeo-Arabic.

Metadata

Archive Reference: IJA 3331
Item Number: 16332
Date: Approx. January 1, 1941 to December 31, 1950
Languages: Multiple Languages
Keywords: Annotation, Baghdadi Jewish Community, Birth Certificates, Chief Rabbi, Handwritten, Jewish Lay Council, Jewish Religious Court, Judeo-Arabic, Marriage Certificates, President of the Jewish Community, Receipts, Spiritual Council, Stamps, Teachers, Typed

AI en Translation, Pages 76-100

Page 76

23 Adar 706
To the honorable Rabbi, the exalted Chacham Shimon Agassi, may his light shine
By the hand of the exalted Chacham Avraham Yitzchak H. Cohen (his messenger), may his light shine
In the city of Baghdad, may the Almighty protect it
In the name of the honorable Mr. Chacham Avraham Yitzchak son of Yitzchak son of Yitzchak H. Cohen, may his light shine, he requests
permission from your honorable excellence to write for him a bill of divorce
for his wife, Mrs. Salem, daughter of Yitzchak and Shalom Cohen
⟦illegible signature⟧
Avraham
Yitzchak
H. Cohen
The servant Avraham
" Yitzchak

Page 77

August 21, 946
To whom it may concern
The Jewish Schools Committee in Baghdad has dispatched its secretary Mr. Shalom
Darwish to recruit female and male teachers for the schools, so we request those he contacts to please
provide all possible facilities to complete his mission, and to you our thanks and respect.
⟦illegible⟧
8/21
Sassoon
Head of the Community

Page 78

We certify that Salman bin Baruch Mizrahi was born in Baghdad on July 4,
1902, and accordingly we have issued him this statement.
Baghdad on August 19, ⟦1946⟧
⟦Theodore Pasha⟧
Shlomo Daoud
Ezra Ibrahim Hayya
Lawyer Daoud Lory
Iraq
Financial
40 fils
19 / 8

Page 80

Baghdad 21st ⟦August⟧, 1946.
Birth Certificate.
In accordance with testimonials presented I hereby confirm that ⟦Mr.⟧
YUSUF ISHAQ TOEG was born in Baghdad in the year 1921 (nineteen hundred
& twenty-one A.D.)
President
The Jewish Community
⟦Baghdad.⟧
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