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IJA 2799

Including Information about Construction of New Buildings, Baghdadi Jewish Community

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These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are lease agreements managed by Heskel Shemtob, president of the Jewish Lay Council and executor of the Nuraeil endowment, construction plans and bid specifications, and blueprints of a community land plot.

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Archive Reference
IJA 2799
Item Number
12071
Date
Approx. January 1, 1941 to December 31, 1950
Languages
Arabic, English
Keywords
Annotation, Architectural Plans, Baghdadi Jewish Community, Contract, Correspondence, Deed, Department of Imports and Exports, Endowment, Engineering, English Language, Envelope, File Folder, Financial, Form, Handwritten, Imports, Ink Stamp, Jewish Lay Council, Jewish Schools Committee, Lease, Legal, Letterhead, Property, Property Commission, Revenue Stamp, Stamps, Typed, Waqf

AI en Translation, Pages 51-75

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34 - Installation of steel partitions on the first floor
The contractor shall install the steel partitions on the first floor, and the installation must be done in a masterful
and sound manner. Each of the sectional parts of the steel partitions must be installed according to the engineer's guidance and in accordance
with the detailed drawings prepared for that purpose.
35 - Electrical Installations
The client shall carry out all electrical installations, but the contractor must place specific voids inside the walls
for laying the electrical cables inside them. Then, he must fill the voids and plaster them with cement or gypsum,
and the designation of these voids must be under the engineer's guidance.
36 - Iron supports inside the sunshades
The contractor must fix two iron supports, provided by the client, inside two sunshades according to the drawings.
37 - Glossy tiles in kitchens, laundries, bathrooms, and toilets.
The contractor must ⟦moisten⟧ the tiles for at least one hour, then coat the back with a thin layer
of cement and sand in a ratio of 1 cement to 1 sand, and leave it for three days in a damp place, then fix it
to the wall with cement mortar in a ratio of 1 cement to 3 sand. After completion, the joints are carved with a nail
and filled with white cement.
38 - The contractor shall cooperate with the mechanical workers in installing the spiral iron mesh on the facade
of the showroom according to the preliminary drawing numbered B / 50 / 390 / 51 (Hexner map). This
cooperation includes placing the side and central gutters at no additional cost. As for the reinforced concrete
works, they shall be measured and credited to the contractor according to the prices in the bill of quantities.

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Page (3)
Item | Details | Quantity | Unit | Fils Dinar | Price | Fils Dinar | Amount
- 12 | Wrapping of steel beams | | | | | |
and plastering them with cement. | 35.00 | m2 | |
- 13 | Casting on the ground and lifting and placing | | | | | |
concrete caps for the parapets | | | | | |
on the roof at a depth of 3 inches | | | | | |
with long grooves placed on | | | | | |
the two edges of the casting to prevent rainwater | 100.00 | m.p | |
- 14 | Casting concrete for the floor of the floor | | | | | |
⟦Ground⟧
First in the warehouse provided it is | | | | | |
polished with a layer of broken bricks | | | | | |
laid under the concrete with pounding, | | | | | |
tightening, and spraying, including leveling | | | | | |
the existing soil and saturating it with water | | | | | |
and tightening it before laying broken bricks | 200.00 | m2 | |
- 15 | Casting concrete for the ground floor | | | | | |
in the showroom provided it is unpolished | | | | | |
with a layer of broken bricks laid | | | | | |
under the concrete with pounding and tightening | | | | | |
and spraying and leveling the ground and saturating it | | | | | |
with water and tightening it before laying | | | | | |
broken bricks. | 200.00 | m2 | |
- 16 | Brickwork with cement at a ratio | | | | | |
of (1) cement to (5) sand | 174.00 | m3 | |
- 17 | Building with hollow bricks and gypsum | | | | | |
for internal walls measuring | | | | | |
9" x 9" x 4 1/4" | 143.00 | m3 | |
- To be continued -

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Page (4)
Item | Details | Quantity | Unit | Price (Fils / Dinar) | Amount (Fils / Dinar)
- 18 | Construction with hollow bricks and gypsum for partitions measuring 9" x 4 1/2" x 3" | 244.00 | m2 |  |
- 19 | Construction with yellow bricks and gypsum in a "Kaf Qima" style - so that all horizontal joints are of equal thickness while hiding all visible vertical joints. The contractor must select bricks with a clean face, uniform in color and size, and the bricks must be cut with a saw in all locations of the walls that require a brick shorter than the standard size. | 35.75 | m2 |  |
- 20 | Cement plastering for the rear facade | 127.00 | m2 |  |
- 21 | Tiling with mosaic tiles using cement in a ratio of (1) cement to (4) sand | 84.60 | m2 |  |
- 22 | Installation of glazed tiles with cement for sanitary installations in a ratio of (1) sand to (1) cement. | 53.00 | m2 |  |
- 23 | Skirting - The contractor shall make the cement skirting at a height of 15 cm and in a ratio of (1) cement to (3) sand. | 29.00 | m2 |  |
- 24 | Baghdadi Ceiling - The contractor shall install the Baghdadi ceiling and fix it to the rafters or the ceiling perfectly, while fixing the iron mesh for the Baghdadi ceiling. | 76.00 | m2 |  |
- To be continued -

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Page (5)
Item | Details | Quantity | Unit | Price (Fils Dinar) | Amount (Fils Dinar)
25 | Coating the Baghdadi ceiling with cement at a ratio of (1) cement to (3) sand. | 760.00 | m2 | |
26 | Plastering the walls with gypsum; the work must be carried out according to templates and in a perfectly vertical manner in three layers. | 1335.00 | m2 | |
27 | Cement rendering for light wells and parapets with cement mortar and a pigment cement material. | 138.00 | m2 | |
28 | Installing marble for the front facade using iron hooks and cement material according to the specifications of the specialized marble company. | 36.75 | m2 | |
29 | Earth-filling, bitumen coating, and mud-straw layering - The contractor shall fill the roof with fine soil at a thickness of 15 cm, graded towards the rainwater pipes after moistening and crushing it with manual rammers as per regulations. The contractor shall coat the roof with bitumen and perform the cornering work and its materials, provided that the bitumen is of the best quality and applied in two layers, each ⟦1/2⟧ cm thick, and that the back of the parapets is bitumen-coated to 15 cm above the mud-straw level. The contractor shall layer the roof after fermenting fine red clay and straw for three days at a ratio of 5 : 1 and at a thickness of 6 cm over the bitumen. The contractor must supply the bitumen, fuel, fine red soil for filling and layering, and straw. | 320.00 | m2 | |
- To be continued -

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Department Copy
285
50/10
J/ 608 / 501
22 / 11 / 1950
Request for Property Tax Exemption
To the Honorable General Directorate of Revenue
Baghdad
Greetings and respect,
I had obtained the Mayoralty of the Capital permit numbered (3352) and dated 28 / 6 / 1950 for the construction
of the ground floor and the first floor of the building on my two plots in Al-Sinak, sequence 24 and 26 / 181, located in Al-Sinak district.
Therefore, I request the registration of this application for the purpose of exempting the aforementioned property from property tax for the legal duration,
after the completion of the construction.
Please accept the assurances of my highest respect,
⟦illegible⟧
The Petitioner
The Trustee of the Nurm and Tobia Nurail Waqfs
Chairman of the Lay Council
In addition to his position
Urgent
⟦illegible⟧
11/21
For filing
Properties
Competent Authority
11/21/1

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JEWISH LAY COUNCIL
BAGHDAD
TELEPHONE No. 5452
THE LAY COUNCIL OF THE ISRAELI COMMUNITY
IN BAGHDAD
TELEPHONE NUMBER 5452
285
Number: H / 5 / 519
Date: June 2, 1950
Subject Summary: Nuriel Endowment.
His Excellency the Judge of Personal Status in Baghdad, Respected.
Baghdad.
I present to your Excellency that the two plots of land numbered 189/34 and 189/39 located in the Senak district are
an endowment from the endowments of Toba and Noam, daughters of Eliyahu Nuriel, and the trusteeship over them belongs to me as President of the Lay Council
of the Israeli Community according to the endowment deed numbered 47/189 issued by your esteemed court on
12/25/1947.
The two mentioned plots of land remain undeveloped and do not yield any income for the endowment. An agreement has been reached
in principle with the director of David Sassoon & Co. Ltd., in addition to the mentioned company, to lease these two
plots with the buildings to be constructed on them to the company according to the following conditions: -
(1). The building shall consist of a ground floor to be built on the area of the two mentioned plots of land, amounting to approximately 421/5 square meters,
as well as a first floor on the mentioned area with the allowed projections on the front and back streets
and the front, according to the attached design.
(2). The lease term is (10) ten years starting from the date of handing over the completed building to the lessee.
(3). The rent is (1750) one thousand seven hundred and fifty Dinars annually, of which (8750) eight thousand seven hundred
and fifty Dinars (which is the rent for five years) shall be paid in advance on the day the completed building is handed over to the lessee. As for
the rent for the remaining five years, it shall be paid in advance at the beginning of each year.
(4). The estimated cost for carrying out this construction is approximately (15000) fifteen thousand Dinars.
Accordingly, since the leasing of the two mentioned vacant lots with the buildings to be constructed on them as mentioned above is in the interest
of the endowment and for its benefit, therefore, by virtue of my trusteeship over the mentioned endowment, I submit this petition to your Excellency, requesting permission to conclude
the mentioned lease for a period of ten years and permission to receive the amount of (8750) eight thousand seven hundred and fifty Dinars, which is
the rent for five years that will be paid in advance by the lessee on the date the completed building is handed over, to be spent
for the purpose of spending on the required construction. Your Excellency's command, Sir.
President of the Lay Council of the Israeli Community in Baghdad
Trustee of the Endowment of
Toba and Noam, daughters of Eliyahu Nuriel
⟦illegible circular stamp⟧

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Copy of the map
With Mr. ⟦Nassim⟧ Cohen

Page 63

Tabu Form (37)
Special form for register copies
Tabu Registry Details | Province | District | Sub-district | Quarter or Village | Street | Portfolio Number | Door Number | Plot Number | Block Number | Block Name | Area Name | Area
Registration Number | Volume | Registration Date | Baghdad | Baghdad | .. | Sinak | | 189/24 | | | | | | Square Meter | Olak | Donum
28 | 580 | 22/10/948 | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
Description and type of property: Endowment of a stove shop, its type is built so that its revenue is for the legality of the head of the Physical Council of the Jewish community in Baghdad
Boundaries:
North: Alley ⟦189/22⟧ | East: Alley ⟦189/22⟧
South: Alley ⟦189/25⟧ | West: Alley on the public road
Abstract rights and مقر | Gender | Type
| Vacant land | Endowed
From which book transferred | Registration Number | Volume | Registration Date | Descriptions | Deed ruling | Map number | To which book transferred | Registration Number | Volume | Registration Date | Land category
44 | 564 | 22/12/947 | | | | | | | | |
Method of disposal: Based on the statement dated 5/8/948 and the endowment deed issued by the Personal Status Court in Baghdad numbered 889/947 and dated 25/12/947 and the inspection report dated 7/8/948 and due to no objection, this endowment transaction proceeded and the ownership and descriptions were entered in the Tabu of Baghdad.
Value | Consideration | Observations
Dinar | Fils | Dinar | Fils |
9500 | | | |
This copy is identical to its register, and an amount of 250 fils has been collected for inspection and registry fees, and recorded as revenue under number 1025 and dated 4/12/948 from the Tabu daily book ⟦line⟧
Officer of Records and Registers
Director of Baghdad Tabu
⟦Stamp of Baghdad Tabu Department⟧

Copy of the Waqf deed
With Mr. Nissim Cohen

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His Excellency the Respectable Mayor of the Capital
17/285 ⟦...⟧
Subject
I wish to purchase an addition to the endowment under my custody targeting the sidewalk in front of
the property sequence (189/34) located in the Al-Sinak area opposite the Rafidain Oil Company
partitioned from the land of the Industrial School in Bab Al-Sharqi.
With your Excellency's utmost respect.
President of the Spiritual Council of the Jewish
Community in Baghdad. Trustee of the Endowments of
Nouriel and Tawiya Nouriel
Attachments
1 - Copy of the property registration
2 - Tapu map

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17 / 285
7 / 6 / 1948
⟦illegible⟧
His Excellency, the respected Chairman of the Israeli Schools Committee
Baghdad
Greetings,
With reference to your letter No. M / 18 / 120 dated 8/4/48,
we confirm our receipt of a copy of the endowment deed (waqfiyya) for the two plots of land
numbered 189 / 34 and 189 / 39 endowed by Saleh Faraj Hayim
for the Nuaim School. With our thanks and respect to Your Excellency.
Vice President
94

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Jewish Schools Committee
Baghdad
Number: M / 18 / 250
Date: 8 / 4 / 1948
Jewish Schools Committee
Baghdad
11 / 4 / 1948
9474
His Excellency the Chairman of the Jewish Community Property Committee, Respected
After greetings
We send enclosed a copy of the endowment deed for the two pieces of land numbered
34 / 9 M18 and 39 / 9 M18 endowed to the Noam School, and to your Excellency highest
Respect
Vice President
⟦For filing⟧

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Director of Land Registry, Baghdad District
75 fils
North
E - W
Baghdad
Al-Sharq District
Scale 1:1000
189/40
189/22
189/25
189/28
189/29
189/34
And God is the Master
South
To be increased according to the inspection report
Dated 5/19/1947
Scale 1:1000
⟦scale bar drawing⟧
In view of the layout of this map, the area of 189/34 equals
Two hundred and seventeen square meters and fifty square decimeters
And the area of 189/29 equals two hundred and ten square meters
Drawn from the original map numbered 894 Baghdad by the Land Registry Engineering Department of the District
Baghdad
Wardu ⟦...⟧ Draftsman
⟦...⟧ Overseer
William Bozo, Engineer
Muhammad Raouf, Inspection Officer
⟦...⟧ Responsible Director

S M T W T F S 1968 42nd week 291-75
Oct. 1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11 12 October Thursday 17
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31
November 1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
40
17/8/40
17/8
Please send the land registry map for (Nouraiel's) house
at Bab al-Sharqi to the engineer Mr. Salim
to submit his report
on the necessary maintenance procedures with the estimated
assessment
⟦signature⟧
10/17

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Baghdad 25 / 4 / 1958
285
Honorable Director of Tabu of Baghdad Province
Subject: - Request for two registration copies and a map for property sequence 18 9/34
Request for two registration copies and a map for property sequence 18 9/39
Greetings,
I request the order to provide me with two registration copies and two Tabu maps for the properties mentioned by their sequences according to the details
below, and I am ready to pay the required fee.
Please accept my highest respect.
⟦illegible signature⟧
Head of the Israelite
Spiritual Council in Baghdad
Required Copies
1 - Registration copy for the property with sequence ( 18 9/34 )
1 - Registration copy for the property with sequence ( 18 9/39 )
1 - Map of the two properties with sequences 18 9/34 and 18 9/39 in a unified form.
For filing
⟦illegible signature⟧
14 / 5 / 58

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126
4/12/1948
His Excellency the Director of Land Registry for Baghdad District
Subject: Request for a registration copy and title map sequence 189/24
Request for a registration copy and title map sequence 189/29
After greetings
I request an order to provide me with a registration copy and land registry map for the properties
whose sequences are mentioned according to the details below.
Please accept my highest respect
President of the Israeli Spiritual Council
in Baghdad
Requested copies
Number
1 - Registration copy for property sequence 189/24 .
1 - Registration copy " " " 189/29
1 - Map of the two properties
and 189/29 in a unified form .
⟦Grant⟧