Verification Certificates of Baghdadi Jewish Community Members
View interactive document pageThese 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.
Certificate 20 August 946 Based on the testimony of the Registrar of Marriage Contracts for the Israelite community in Baghdad, we confirm hereby that Mr. Isaac son of Jacob son of Elia has entered into his engagement in Baghdad to Miss Kamila daughter of Shaul son of Saleh Levi on the fourteenth day of the month of May in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-five and has not married since. ⟦signature⟧ N.C. Head of the Community
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
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
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
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.⟧ pages cannot be separated for imaging pages cannot be separated for imaging