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IJA 2719

Wedding Registries, Baghdadi Jewish Community

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Description

These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community, all in Judeo-Arabic, with some annotations in Arabic. This is a ledger of the wedding registries for the community from 1947. Columns included are names of the bride and groom, the amount of the ketubah (Jewish marriage contract) dowry, date, fees paid (1%) of the dowry to the Jewish community. The fees will be to finance the Jewish Hospitals in Baghdad.

Metadata

Archive Reference
IJA 2719
Item Number
5518
Date
Approx. January 1, 1941 to December 31, 1950
Languages
Judeo-Arabic
Keywords
Baghdadi Jewish Community, Marriage Certificates, Financial, Typed, Annotation, Leger, Handwritten

AI en Translation, Pages 1-25

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⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧ of the Israeli hospitals in ⟦illegible⟧
List of Ketubot listed in Kislev Tebet
⟦illegible⟧ | Date | Number | Ketubah Amount Dinar | The Subsistence 1 Dinar
Yosef son of Avraham ⟦illegible⟧ | Kislev 26 | 292 | 500 | 5
Shimon son of Yosef ⟦illegible⟧ | [5]7 26 | 293 | 500 | 5
Suleiman son of Yosef ⟦illegible⟧ | [5]7 27 | 294 | 1600 | 16
David son of Yitzhak ⟦illegible⟧ | [5]7 27 | 295 | 750 | 7 500
Salim son of Yaakov H ⟦illegible⟧ | [5]7 27 | 296 | ⟦illegible⟧ | ⟦illegible⟧
Reuven son of Sasson ⟦illegible⟧ | [5]7 28 | 297 | ⟦illegible⟧ | ⟦illegible⟧
Nisim son of Rahamim David Bar ⟦illegible⟧ | [5]7 28 | 298 | ⟦illegible⟧ | ⟦illegible⟧
Eliezer son of Eliyahu Mualem | [5]7 28 | 299 | ⟦illegible⟧ | ⟦illegible⟧
Shlomo son of Eliyahu ⟦illegible⟧ | [5]7 29 | ⟦illegible⟧ | ⟦illegible⟧ | ⟦illegible⟧
Yitzhak son of Eliyahu Shochet Cohen | [5]7 29 | ⟦illegible⟧ | ⟦illegible⟧ | ⟦illegible⟧
Abdallah son of David Yitzhak Hassan Cohen | [5]7 29 | ⟦illegible⟧ | ⟦illegible⟧ | ⟦illegible⟧
Avraham son of Moshe ⟦illegible⟧ | [5]7 Tebet 1 | ⟦illegible⟧ | ⟦illegible⟧ | ⟦illegible⟧

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Estate share for the Sassoon family B
To the administration of the Jewish hospitals in Baghdad
Collected and revenues of the Ketubot of Parashat ⟦illegible⟧ year 1947/5/24
The 1% fee | Ketubah amount | Number | Date | Name of the groom and bride
Fils | Dinar | Dinar |  | 1947 |
000 | 007 | 00700 | 407 | 29 Nisan | Isaac son of Ezra Eliyahu Ovadia ⟦illegible⟧
000 | 002 | 00200 | 408 | 29 Nisan | Jacob son of Abraham Saleh ⟦illegible⟧
000 | 002 | 00200 | 409 | 1 Sivan | Menachem son of Salman Gabbai ⟦illegible⟧
000 | 006 | 00600 | 410 | 1 Sivan | David son of Judah son of Isaac ⟦illegible⟧
000 | 001 | 00100 | 411 | 1 Sivan | Aaron son of Abraham Pinchas ⟦illegible⟧
000 | 002 | 00200 | 412 | 1 Sivan | Eliyahu son of Judah Ovadia ⟦illegible⟧
250 | 005 | 00525 | 413 | 1 Sivan | Salim son of Isaac Eliezer Baban ⟦illegible⟧
000 | 080 | 08000 | 414 | 2 Sivan | Isaac son of David Mansour ⟦illegible⟧
000 | 004 | 00400 | 415 |  | ⟦illegible⟧
000 | 002 | 00200 | 416 |  |
000 | 027 | 02700 |  |  |
000 | 075 | 07500 |  |  |

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Portion of Ezra Haskel Shmuel may God preserve him
19 Av 5707 _ 5/8/1947
For the ⟦...⟧ school
Collected and entered ketubot of Parasat
1% Fils fee | 1% Dinar fee | Ketubah amount Dinar | Number | Date | Names of the Groom and the Bride
500 | 7 | 750 | 281 | 18 Av | Khedouri son of Abdallah Yehoshua HaLevi and Rachel daughter of Ezra Nahum Sassoon
500 | 2 | 250 | 282 | 18 Av | Khedouri son of Ezekiel Abraham HaLevi and Na'ima daughter of Abraham Joseph Ezra
500 | 2 | 250 | 283 | 18 Av | Meir son of Shimon ben Sassoon and Rachel daughter of Moshe Hazan Hananya
700 | 4 | 470 | 284 | 18 Av | Isaac son of Abraham Isaac and Na'ima daughter of Isaac son of Abraham
500 | 2 | 250 | 285 | 18 Av | Abraham son of Haskel Ezra and Na'ima daughter of Isaac son of Abraham
000 | 4 | 400 | 286 | 18 Av | Hayyim son of Shimon Hayyim and Rachel daughter of Shalom ben Ezra
000 | 4 | 400 | 287 | 18 Av | Khedouri son of Ovadia Hayyim and Sabiha daughter of Abraham ben Shimon
500 | 0 | 050 | 288 | 19 Av | ⟦...⟧ son of Shimon ben Rahamim
500 | 1 | 150 | 289 | 19 Av | ⟦...⟧ son of Nissim son of ⟦...⟧
500 | 2 | 250 | 290 | 19 Av | ⟦...⟧ son of Joseph ⟦...⟧
200 | 2 | 220 | 291 | 19 Av | ⟦...⟧ son of Siman Tov ⟦...⟧
900 | 27 |  |  |  |
948 |  |  |  |  |
952 | 26 |  |  |  |
476 | 18 |  |  |  |
476 | 18 |  |  |  |
We have received from Ezra Haskel Shmuel the aforementioned amount
⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧
19 Av ⟦...⟧
The account
Paid under guarantee
14/5/47