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198 Name of the Institution: Hebra Qadisha Association Registry Sequence Number: 264 Tabu Sequence: 22/1 Door Numbers: 122/22 Albu Shibl Property Type: House Name of the Custodian: Hakham Sassoon Khidhouri, Head of the Association
IJA 2803
Ḥevrah Ḳadishah Documents; Management Committee’s Request about Assets
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These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community, primarily related to Ḥevrah Ḳadishah, the Burial Society. They contain an Iraqi newspaper (al-Tākhay) with an advertisement selling the Ḥevrah Ḳadishah's car because the government froze the society’s assets. Also included are requests about assets from the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews to the government and an announcement in the official Iraqi newspaper (Al-Waqā’i‘ Al-‘Irāqiyah) about the Administrative Committee’s role.
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Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews Telephone Number: 5452 Number: L/⟦illegible⟧ Date: 31 / 5 / 1970 Subject: ⟦line⟧ The Honorable Director of the Land Registry of Baghdad Province / Al-Rusafa Greetings: Please provide us with two copies of the title deed for property sequence 1 / 23 in Al-Bushibl neighborhood Belonging to this Committee. With high respect Chairman of the Administrative Committee
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Presidency of the Israelite Community Baghdad Assets Committee (Hevra Kadisha Society) Portfolio Number - 264 Registry Number - Subject: A house from the endowments of Hevra Kadisha Province: Baghdad Serial Number: 1 / 24 District: / Door Numbers: 122 / 22 / 22 Sub-district: / Property Type: Endowment (Waqf) Neighborhood and Street: Al-Bu Shibl Property Category: House Land Registry Map Number: 20014 / 2244 dated 2 / 5 / 928 Notes: 1/1/1949
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Thursday 21-5-1970 Al-Ta'akhi Page - 3 - Female university students speak About the national characteristics of Kurdish dress Kurdish women's fashion embodies vitality and artistic spirit Bayan Abdul Karim - Vian Hussein Bamerni Surur Zangana Na'ima Majeed Question And here the following question lingers on our tongues: From what angles does the Kurdish girl look at her national dress?.. And is she ready to reconcile modernization and cultural authenticity in her national dress?! Our fashion embodies our way of life Student in the second year of the College of Arts, Vian Hussein Bamerni: We must take pride in our heritage, authenticity, and traditions, and she also has the right to exercise her right to preserve these cultural elements. A simple look at the roots of these cultural elements for us Kurds shows them represented in the depths of our ancient history, and they remain attached to this day in our minds and in our mental and moral formation. A step towards building a Kurdish theater By: Jaafar Ali The theater is able to crystallize the popular will.. When we search for the first step in the process of building Kurdish theater, we must place one [look] at the reality of these institutions, which makes us disregard them all. Because they - all of them - are limited by harsh physical and functional boundaries; routine almost makes these institutions cultural tools incapable of working in their broad dimensions. Therefore, the first step on the path of this construction must start from outside these institutions. Bayan Kaka Mahmoud Human societies contribute across various historical stages and despite their different economic systems, their fashion depends on the basis of their environmental conditions and what this environment imposes in terms of morals, ideas, and behavioral values. Perhaps the geographical nature and the style of production relations for a specific society are considered among the main factors in determining the essential dimensions of the national dress and consequently giving it the final patterns of shape, color, and clarity. In Kurdish society, models of fashion crowd across the length of the Kurdish region that at first glance seem to differ in their designs and arrangements according to what each region imposes of considerations partially related to the region, climate, and the beauty of the inhabitants. Al-Ta'akhi Tour It is very good to announce to our readers today our study of the subject of contributing to the building of Kurdish theater. We also feel today the responsibility of the Modern Art Theater Troupe, as those working with it are preparing these days for the idea of producing Kurdish plays as a fulfillment of part of the duty required of them to push and enrich the theater of brotherly nationalities in the Iraqi homeland. But better than this and that is for a single idea to crystallize among Kurdish officials regarding the necessity of continuous work in order to rescue the Kurdish arts movement in its visual, theatrical, and cinematic fields from its slump that has lasted for a long time and was on the verge of withering, especially during the years of political fragmentation, misery, and hardship that cast their shadows over our Kurdish region for long periods. Words for you Civilization is not things that can be collected in museums of human history, but it is behavior before everything else, behavior and a moral stance towards the world, man, and his problems. For the sake of creating theater in the Arab world During the past years, many seminars have opened in the countries of the Great Arab Maghreb to study the issues of modern Arab theater.. Al-Khayam First Class Telephone 94539 Youssef Al-Ani Layla Hosni
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In the name of God, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful Ministry of Justice Baghdad Court of First Instance Incoming Stamp Number: 5 / Associations / 67 ⟦1856⟧ Date: 15 / 6 / 970 To: - The Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews Your letter No. L / 206 / 70 dated 4 / 6 / 970 In view of what was stated in the letter of the Baghdad Tapu Directorate - Rusafa No. 4687 dated 15 / 6 / 970, regarding the replacement of sequence 2/1 Al-Boushibl, belonging to the Hebra Qadisha Society dissolved, therefore this court will continue its procedures of selling the mentioned property - belonging to the society, according to the principles and your request dated 4 / 6 / 970 is rejected ⟦signature⟧ Judge and Judicial Liquidator Najib Ahmed Shabib Administrative Committee ⟦for Iraqi Jews⟧ Number 8217 Date 18 / 6 / 1970
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Method of granting the deed In view of the real estate registration dated ⟦...⟧ January 928 permanent No. 26 Volume 20 The house is the absolute property of the endowers Ezra Salman Nissan and Shaul Abdullah Nawi, and the lawyer Saqal bin Shaul, and they have approached the Baghdad Court of First Instance And each of them stated that he had endowed the third belonging to him of the mentioned house Provided that the trustee of the mentioned endowment be Rabbi Salman Khadouri Abboudi In his capacity as the head of a charitable society, and after him the trusteeship passes to the person Who shall be the head of the Religious Court of the Mosaic community in Baghdad, and he shall then act With the supervisor to manage the mentioned endowment and spend its revenue according to the conditions set out in This endowment deed regarding the formation of a charitable society ⟦...⟧ in accordance with the observed law, and that The lay president of the Mosaic community in Baghdad has oversight over the appointed trustee, who performs That, the mentioned house is leased by the trustee with the approval of the supervisor year By year at the market rent to the applicant in cash, and it may not be leased for more than a year And the rent shall be collected, and the revenue shall be spent first for the repair and restoration of the mentioned house, and what Remains of it shall be spent on preparing, shrouding, and burying the dead of the poor of the Mosaic community In Baghdad through the charitable society existing now, which will proceed thereafter With the matter of preparation and shrouding by the Spiritual Council when the mentioned property devolves Mentioned to the endowment and there is no income at that time that can spend on the preparation Then the trustee may borrow against the guarantee of the endowment document and carry out the necessary repairs and pay them off From the surplus revenue, and in case of not borrowing, the trustee may deal with others and lease The endowed property under long leases for the percentage that accepts the restoration instead of this manner Mentioned, the endowment has taken place pursuant to the deed issued by the Personal Status Court in Baghdad Dated 924/9/20 No. 122 and based on the court judgment and decision dated 924/8/2 And the endowment declaration dated 924/11/26 according to the rank dated ⟦...⟧ 924/11/26
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(27) - L Special form for record copies Government Press 3183-1-1969 Liwa (Province): Baghdad District: Sub-district: Neighborhood or Village: Al-Wathba Street: Portfolio number (Sequence): 22/1 Door number: 22 / 122 Plot number: District number: District name: Area name: Registration: 17 Volume: 200 Registration Date: 9 January / 947 Square meters: Olk: Donum: Disposal column: Endowment for the Hebra Kadisha Mosaic Society Abstract rights and rent charges: Gender: Type: Boundaries: North-East: House of Dawood bin Eliyahu and his heir Sommer Yaqoub 27/122 - North-West: House of heirs of Ezra Menashe 29/122 - South-West: House of the Torah Endowment 28/122 - South-East: House of Abdullah Eliyahu 19/122 - and the mentioned house is the house which passed to her from her mentioned father 25/121 Descriptions: Vacant land building Deed ruling: Map number: From which transfer book - Registration number: 17 From which transfer book - Volume: 200 From which transfer book - Registration Date: 9 January / 947 Land category: Pure property Method of disposal: Endowment ((in his possession)) Value - Dinar: 120 Value - Fils: Compensation - Dinar: Compensation - Fils: Notes: This copy is identical to its record, and an amount of 500 fils has been collected for the inspection fee and 618, date 21 / 5 / 1970 from the daily journal of the Baghdad Land Registry (Tapu). Republic of Iraq - Revenue Stamp - 50 fils Republic of Iraq - Revenue Stamp - 50 fils Republic of Iraq - Revenue Stamp - 10 fils Records and entries officer Director of Baghdad Land Registry Land Registry Officer