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IJA 3076

Financial Information, Baghdadi Jewish Community

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Description

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are: financial records of the Iraqi Jewish Community with receipts for financial transactions; payment of bills; purchase of materials and services; financial disbursements to the poor.

Metadata

Archive Reference
IJA 3076
Item Number
15742
Date
Approx. January 1, 1951 to December 31, 1960
Languages
Multiple Languages
Keywords
Office of Income Tax, Financial, Bills, Stamps, Ledger, Baghdad Light and Power, Thumbprint, Typed, Baghdadi Jewish Community, Ink Stamp, Ottoman Bank, Meir Elias Hospital, Receipts, Letterhead, Income Tax, Jewish Lay Council, President of the Jewish Community, Insurance, Typed: Revenue Stamps, Annotation, Handwritten, Taxes

AI English Translation, Pages 351-375

Archival unit 351

Subsidies for the poor of the Menashi Saleh Asylum
Name | Allocated Amount | Signature
1 - Habiba Eliyahu | 500 Fils | ⟦fingerprint⟧
2 - Maryam Moshi | 500 Fils | ⟦fingerprint⟧
3 - Mikhail Nahum | 500 Fils | ⟦fingerprint⟧
4 - Rachel Levi | 500 Fils | ⟦fingerprint⟧
5 - Farha Saleh (paralyzed) | 500 Fils | ⟦fingerprint⟧
6 - Moshi Yaqub | 500 Fils | ⟦fingerprint⟧
7 - Yusuf Abdullah | 500 Fils | ⟦fingerprint⟧
8 - Nabat Israel | 500 Fils | ⟦fingerprint⟧
4000 four Dinars only
⟦line⟧
List of subsidies for the week ending on 15 / 8 / 1952 for the poor of the Menashi Saleh Asylum
⟦signature⟧
Community Accountant ⟦line⟧
✓

Archival unit 352

Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Date: 25 / 8 / 1952
Fils: ⟦line⟧
Dinar: 1
I received from the accountant of the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad the amount mentioned above
Only one dinar and no more ⟦line⟧
And that is for the fees of opening a safe and moving its contents to the Community administration ⟦line⟧
⟦line⟧
Signature of the recipient
⟦signature⟧

Archival unit 353

Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Date: 15 / 8 / 1952
Fils: 500
Dinar: 1
Received from the accountant of the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad the above-mentioned amount
Only five hundred fils and no more ⟦line⟧
And that is for the aid of the week ending on 15 / 8 / 1952
⟦line⟧
Signature of the recipient
Aziza Yaqub
⟦fingerprint stamp⟧

Archival unit 354

Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Date: 15 / 8 / 1952
Fils: 500
Dinar: 1
I received from the accountant of the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad the amount mentioned above
Only five hundred fils and no more ⟦line⟧
And that is for the aid of the week ending on 15 / 8 / 1952 ⟦line⟧
Signature of the recipient
Hezekiah Hayim Munir
⟦fingerprint⟧

Archival unit 355

Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Date: 15 / 8 / 1952
Fils: 500
Dinar: 1
I received from the accountant of the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad the amount mentioned above
Only ⟦line⟧ five hundred fils and no more
And that is for ⟦line⟧ the aid for the week ending on 15 / 8 / 1952
⟦line⟧
Signature of the recipient
Esther Yosef
⟦fingerprint⟧

Archival unit 356

Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Date: 15 / 8 / 1952
Fils: 500
Dinar: /
Received from the Accountant of the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad the amount mentioned above
Only five hundred fils and no more ⟦line⟧
And that is for the aid of the week ending on 15 / 8 / 1952 ⟦line⟧
⟦line⟧
Signature of the Recipient
Sarah Daniel
⟦fingerprint⟧
⟦ink_stain⟧

Archival unit 357

Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Date: 15 / 8 / 1952
Fils: 150
Dinar: —
Received from the accountant of the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad the amount mentioned above
Only one hundred and fifty fils and no more.
And that is for the aid of the week ending on 15 / 8 / 1952
Signature of the recipient
Karjiya Daoud
⟦fingerprint stamp⟧

Archival unit 358

Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Date: 1952/8/14
Fils: 200
Dinar: /
I received from the accountant of the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad the amount mentioned above
Only ⟦two hundred fils no more⟧
And that is for ⟦aid for the week ending on 1952/8/15⟧
⟦line⟧
Signature of the recipient
Masoud Ibrahim
⟦fingerprint⟧

Archival unit 359

Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Date: 1952/8/24
Fils: 750
Dinar: 1
I received from the accountant of the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad the amount mentioned above
Only seven hundred and fifty fils and no more
And that is for the aid of the week ending on 15 / 8 / 1952
Signature of the recipient
Badriya Ezra
⟦fingerprint stamp⟧

Archival unit 360

Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
⟦line⟧
Date: 1952/8/14
Fils: 500
Dinar: 1
I received from the accountant of the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad the amount mentioned above
Only five hundred fils and no more.
And that is for the aid of the week ending on 1952/8/15
⟦line⟧
Signature of the Recipient
Rosa Ibrahim
on behalf of Ghazala Abid Israel
⟦fingerprint⟧

Archival unit 361

Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Date: 14 / 8 / 1954
Fils: 400
Dinar: ⟦illegible⟧
I received from the accountant of the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad the amount mentioned above
Only four hundred fils and no more
And that is for the aid of the week ending on 15 / 8 / 1954
Signature of the recipient
Farha Salman Sheikha
On behalf of Salman Shaul Zabki
⟦fingerprint stamp⟧

Archival unit 362

Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Date: 1952/8/14
Fils: 500
Dinar: —
I received from the accountant of the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad the amount mentioned above
Only five hundred fils and no more
And that is for the aid of the week ending on 1952/8/15
Signature of the recipient
Simha Ezra
⟦fingerprint⟧

Archival unit 363

Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Date: 14 / 8 / 1952
Fils: 500
Dinar: 1
I received from the accountant of the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad the amount mentioned above
Only five hundred fils and no more
And that is for the aid of the week ending on 15 / 8 / 1952
⟦line⟧
Signature of the recipient
Naziha Ibrahim
⟦fingerprint⟧

Archival unit 364

Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Date: 24 / 8 / 1954
Fils: 000
Dinar: 5
I received from the accountant of the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad the amount mentioned above
Only five dinars and no more.
And that is for aid to his sister, the daughter of Abboud Robin Al-Qassab
⟦stamp with fingerprint and illegible text⟧
Signature of the recipient
Abboud Robin Qassab
On behalf of his daughter Shafika
⟦fingerprint⟧

Archival unit 365

Secretary
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Date: 12 / 8 / 952
To the Accountant
⟦line⟧
Based on the approval of His Excellency the President
Pay to the girl Shafika daughter of Zion Reuben Alwayzi
five dinars as a marriage grant ⟦...⟧
⟦signature⟧
Secretary
Jewish Community - Baghdad

Archival unit 366

Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Date: 14 / 1 / ⟦1948⟧
Fils: 980
Dinar: 1
I received from the accountant of the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad the amount mentioned above
Only one dinar and nine hundred and eighty fils and no more
And that is for the costs and labor wages for restoring the pipes passing through the sequestration and connecting
the water as explained on the back of the receipt
Iraq
10 Fils
Signature of the Recipient
Abdul Razzaq Abdul ⟦Hussein⟧
14 / 1

Archival unit 367

Fils Dinar
List of materials ⟦...⟧ | 580
Transport and cartage fees for the piles | 500
The three to the mechanism from the slaughterhouse |
Labor fee for removing the papyrus | 900
And moving the water directly instead of |
Tanks |
⟦line⟧
1980
⟦line⟧
Only one dinar and nine hundred and eighty
fils and no more

Archival unit 368

518
Said Ramani
Baghdad, Mosul, (Iraq)
Telephone 3955 (Baghdad) * Telephone 296 (Mosul)
Account of Mr.: Israeli Curiosities
Respected:
24 / 8 / 58
Abd
Fils | Dinar | Notes
120 |  | Knowledge ⟦A⟧
200 |  | Sciences ⟦B⟧
120 |  | Sabil ⟦A⟧
100 |  | Stars ⟦A⟧
540 |  |
Only five hundred and forty fils
Said ⟦Al-Razzaq⟧

Archival unit 369

The Accountant
Pay two hundred and fifty
to the poor man Shaul Yehuda
⟦illegible⟧
12/8/54
Fils | Dinar
250 | 
Two hundred and fifty fils only
I received only two hundred and fifty
fils from the community account as aid
for my children on 12 / 7 / 1954
⟦purple ink thumbprint stamp⟧
Shaul Yehuda

Archival unit 370

I received the sum of two Dinars for ⟦illegible⟧
large size 1000 Manila from the fund of the administration of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad, and for this reason I have signed here
⟦stamp: Iraqi revenue stamp with portrait of King Faisal II⟧
⟦signature⟧
12/8/1952
Accountant
Yousef
Shaif
12/8/52

Archival unit 371

Fils Dinar
500 ⟦line⟧
Five hundred fils only.
I received from the account of the sect the amount
above, only five hundred fils and no more,
and that is for the wages of repairing corrugated iron pipes,
and specifically for this, and there is no time for this
receipt 12 / 8 / 1952
Hassan Al-Sheikh Ahmed
⟦fingerprint⟧

Archival unit 372

To the Jewish Community
Hussein son of Sheikh Ahmed has completed
the work on the water pipes that you sent ⟦for⟧
the accounting of the Maternity Hospital
Hope ⟦g⟧ood ⟦m⟧aster
Maternity Hospital
Date 12 / 6 / 1952
Accountant
⟦line⟧
Pay half a dinar ⟦t⟧otal ⟦t⟧o him
⟦signature⟧
Accountant
12 / 6 / 52

Archival unit 373

Fils and Dinar
⟦line⟧
250
Twenty-eight fils only.
I received from the community accountant the sum of twenty-
eight fils only, and that is for the aid of
the week ending on 8/8/1952, and for that purpose
I signed this receipt on 12/8/1952
⟦fingerprint stamp⟧
Sarah Daniel

Archival unit 374

Dear ⟦Mr.⟧
The bearer of this paper is Sarah
whom I spoke to you about last Friday
past, please help her
as much as possible, and thank you
collectively, that she may present it for a week
And many thanks to you
Sincerely
⟦signature⟧
Salim ⟦...⟧
11 / 8 / 1954

Archival unit 375

Baghdad Light & Power Co., Ltd.
BAGDAD LIGHT & POWER CO., LTD.
(Incorporated in the United Kingdom.)
Date / Date:
N.B.—This bill should be paid within 15 days from date / Note: This bill must be paid within a period of 15 days from its date:
Name / Consumer Name: Shamash Great School
Address / Address: 204 / 115
Tariff / Prices:
Meter No. / Meter Number: 232
Bill No. / Bill Number: 718 / 4 / 50
METER REGISTER / Meter Registration | Ds. / Dinars | Fs. / Fils
To / To ⟦line⟧ 195 |  | 
From / From ⟦line⟧ 195 |  | 
Units Supplied / Supplied Units |  | 
⟦line⟧ @ 18 fils / at a price of 18 fils | 8 | 909
⟦line⟧ @ 12 " / at a price of 12 " |  | 
⟦line⟧ @ 10 " / " 10 " | 4 | 500
Meter Rental / Meter Rent |  | 
Current Limiter | 4 | 410
10 FILS
10 Fils
Existing
on lighting
After having taken a continuous supply in one premises for not less than 12 months, any consumer who considers his deposit to be in excess of the requirement may apply for a re-assessment.
The subscriber who considers his deposited insurance to be more than necessary after taking a continuous supply in one place for a period of not less than 12 months should apply for a second assessment.
No receipt for payment to the Company is valid unless bearing the Company's embossed official receipt which is stamped by the Cashier at the time of making payment.
A receipt for the amount paid to the company is not considered valid unless it is stamped with the company's official stamp by the cashier at the time of payment.