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Presidency of the Jewish Community Baghdad Committee: List showing the contents of folder no: Property of: Page | Nature of the paper and its contents | Number | Date | Notes General notes: This list was organized by: On date: / / 19
IJA 2786
Endowed Property, Baghdadi Jewish Community
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This is a file from the President of Jewish Community about the Nouriel endowment. It includes a description of the Nouriel endowed property with an official copy of the registration, and a hand drawn sketch of the property’s location.
AI en Translation, Pages 1-25
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Presidency of the Jewish Community Baghdad Committee of Endowments (Movable and Immovable) Subject: Title Deed of the Eliyahu Nouriel Endowment Property Documents Register Number 106 Title Deed Iraqi Government Register Date: December 1934 Register Number: 74 Volume Number: 55 Register Page Number: 74 Title Deed Receipt Number: 26 Noble Diwan Number: 52 / 198 Old Papers Number: 40 Receipt Book Number: - Liwa | Qada | Nahiya | Village | Location | Mahalla | Street Baghdad | Baghdad | - | - | - | Torat | Kurkaji Type and Contents: A house comprising rooms on the ground and upper floors, an iwan, a kitchen, facilities, a balcony, a passage, a well, and a jar Type: Endowment (Waqf) Current Boundaries: South: Public road; Right: Property of the house of the heirs of Saeed ⟦118⟧; Rear: Also house of the heirs of Saeed ⟦118⟧ and completion of Khan al-Wafa ⟦205 / 158⟧; Left: Also Khan al-Wafa numbered ⟦205 / 158⟧ Area: / Attachments: / Original Owner: Endowment of the house of Eliyahu Nouriel The mentioned house is absolute property of the endowment of the house of Eliyahu Nouriel according to the title deed dated 28th of the second 1902 under number ⟦...⟧ And numbered in the year 926. The aforementioned has been endowed as a valid legal endowment and a permanent detention, and she stipulated that the disposal thereof is hers as long as she is alive, and after her death the mentioned house shall be leased year by year for a similar rental value or more, and the rental proceeds shall be spent to fulfill the needs for the reconstruction and restoration of the endowment, and the surplus of the yield shall be allocated to the matter of the Tarawih recitations located in Baghdad of the Mosaic faith. The endower ordered the teaching and education of Torah students in Baghdad of the mentioned faith. The trusteeship after her death as long as she is alive, and after her death, the trusteeship shall return to the head of the Israeli (Accord) community residing in the province of his city and to the person acting as a deputy for the mentioned head residing in Baghdad. If the mentioned charity is lost or disappears, the intention is to give the surplus of the yield of the mentioned endowment to the poor absolutely, and the trusteeship shall be to the Hakham Bashi of the mentioned faith in Paris, according to the endowment deed issued by the Sharia Court of Baghdad dated 20 Safar 1314 and number 121, and certified by the Ministry of Justice in Baghdad on 18 May 934, and the mentioned endower passed away twenty years ago or more. Baghdad Land Registry Clerical According to the decision of the Council of Sharia Cassation in Paris Dated November 25 Year 1933 Note: This house was registered in the name of the Eliyahu Nouriel House Endowment according to the decision of the Sharia Cassation Council in Paris Dated November 25, 1933, and according to the notification of the Sharia Court in Baghdad dated 20 Safar 1314. Value | Clerical | Similar value and auction | Book fee | Paper fee | Survey fee | Relative fee | Allocations | Total - | - | - | 2 | 48 | - | 74 | - | 500 The house whose boundaries and endowment description are set forth above has been registered at the Baghdad Land Registry Department in the name of the Eliyahu Nouriel Endowment by the trustee according to the conditions set forth in the body of the Kushan giving the deed, and accordingly this title deed has been organized and given. 24 February 935 20 Dhu al-Hijjah 1353 Director of Baghdad District Land Registry This copy was transcribed on ⟦...⟧ 1950 and signed by ⟦...⟧ of the community on ⟦...⟧ / 1 / 1950 Notes: 1- The original of this deed is kept with the Nouriel Endowments Committee Signature: Presidency of the Jewish Community, Baghdad
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The Israelite Community of Baghdad Register of Immovable Property Serial Number 106 Name of the institution to which the property belongs or for which it is endowed ⟦line⟧ None 1 Type of property | House | 11 Date of the endowment deed | 212 2 Zero 2 Neighborhood and street | Torah, Takji | 12 Authority that issued the endowment deed | Baghdad Sharia Court and the Sharia deed was ratified by the Ministry of Justice on 21 / 5 / 924 3 Modern door numbers | 52 118 | 13 Name of the current trustee and method of appointment | President of the Israelite Alliance Society according to the conditions of the endowment 4 Type of property, i.e., is it pure property or endowment | Endowment | 14 Conditions of trusteeship | Trusteeship belongs to the endower Rifqa daughter of Samuel Nuriel as long as she is alive, and after her death, the trusteeship reverts to the President of the Israelite Alliance Society residing in Paris and to the person residing in the position of the aforementioned President, the trustee in Baghdad, and if the aforementioned society is dissolved or abolished, the trusteeship reverts to the Hakham Bashi of the Mosaic community 5 Is it registered in the Land Registry Department or not? | Yes, registered | 15 The entity for which the property is endowed | For the property 6 In whose name is it registered? | President of the Israelite Alliance Society residing in Paris | 16 Is the property registered under a pseudonym and how so? | / 7 Date of the Land Registry deed | December 924 permanent | 17 Is there any other document regarding this property or its ownership or the right of disposal in it, and if the answer is affirmative, state its nature, date, and number | / 8 Land Registry serial number | 26 | 18 How it is used at the present time | For exploitation 9 Value recorded in the Land Registry deed | Rupee 12000 | 19 The entity to which the revenues are spent | The revenue is spent on the maintenance of the sick residing in Baghdad from the Mosaic community and for the teaching and education of Torah students in Baghdad, and if the aforementioned society and schools become extinct or abolished, the revenue reverts to the poor absolutely 10 Endowment deed number | ⟦illegible⟧ | 20 Is there any dispute regarding it? | ⟦illegible⟧ Remarks: - To the sick of the Israelite community and Torah students