AI en Translation, Pages 526-550
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FRANK INY SCHOOL
INTERMEDIATE & PRIMARY
Baghdad
Telephone No. 91693
FRANK INY SCHOOL
Intermediate and Primary
Baghdad
Telephone Number 91693
No. ⟦line⟧ :
Date ⟦line⟧ :
Number ⟦line⟧ : F/118/53
Date ⟦line⟧ : 17/7/1953
His Excellency the Chairman of the Baghdad Area Water Supply Committee, Respected
After greetings,
The total water consumption in this school for the period from
3/9/53 to 5/18/1953 was very high according to the readings of the two meters
numbered 115233 and 92452. Therefore, please be so kind as to order their inspection
to ensure they are working correctly, and also please order the restoration of the water flow
to the school, which was recently cut off. With much gratitude and respect.
⟦illegible signature⟧
The Director
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FRANK INY SCHOOL
INTERMEDIATE & PRIMARY
Baghdad
Telephone No. 91693
Frank Iny School
Intermediate and Primary
Baghdad
Telephone Number 91693
No. ⟦line⟧ Number ⟦line⟧
Date ⟦line⟧ 27 / 5 / 1952 Date
To the honorable Mr. Meir Rubin, respected.
Your son Haron from the second primary grade is a very
active student and misbehaves and fears no one and has annoyed the school administration
repeatedly and does not care about reprimand or punishment and he performs actions whose
consequences are feared, therefore your help is requested by urging him to be calm, otherwise we
will be forced despite his young age to expel him temporarily from the school
as a discipline for him and for those like him who disrupt order, this is with the knowledge
that he is negligent in all his lessons and is threatened with failure as the complaints
of the teachers are continuous about him.
⟦handwritten signature⟧
The Director
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Frank Iny School
Intermediate and Primary
Baghdad
Telephone 91693
Number: F / 72 / 53
Date: 10 / 5 / 1953
To
General Pension Directorate
Greetings,
Further to our letter No. F / 62 / 53 dated 24 / 4 / 1953.
The date of the student Maurice Menachem Aslan's departure from this school was on
20 / 6 / 1951.
Please accept our highest respect.
⟦illegible⟧
The Director
⟦illegible⟧
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Heskel Menahem Daniel Vocational School
for Girls.
Telephone :- 6812
Baghdad.
Number :- 410
Date :- 30 / 4 / 1953
To
Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province.
Greetings,
Reference to your letter numbered 7780 and dated 26 / 3 / 1953.
We list below the following information requested in your above-mentioned letter.
1 - Name of the school: Heskel Menahem Daniel Vocational School for Girls.
2 - Date of its establishment: Year 1947.
3 - Ownership of the school as recorded in the written permit: Mr. Ezra Menahem Daniel and after him the guardianship of the Jewish Lay Council in Baghdad.
4 - Location of the school (statement of the neighborhood, street name, and building number): Al-Sinak neighborhood, Menahem Daniel Street, No. 42 H / 233.
5 - Number of classes and number of sections: One class with one section.
6 - Does it have an attached kindergarten: No kindergarten is attached to it.
7 - Is it for boys or girls only or mixed - evening or day: For girls only and day.
8 - Number of male and female students: 6 students only.
9 - Success rate in the final exams for the past year for the first and second sessions: There were no female students in the school who participated in the general ministerial exams.
Please accept our highest respect.
The Director
Note :-
The Ministry of Education, in its letter numbered 21491 and dated September 3, 1947, agreed to grant Mr. Ezra Menahem Daniel a permit to open a school under the name (Heskel Menahem Daniel Vocational School for Girls) which accepts female students who have completed primary education.
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Frank Iny School
Intermediate & Primary
Baghdad
Telephone No. 91693
FRANK INY SCHOOL
INTERMEDIATE & PRIMARY
Baghdad
Telephone No. 91693
No.:
Date: 23/2/1953
No.:
Date:
To
The Honorable Mr. Edward Yaqub Shamtob
Greetings,
Please be so kind as to pay an amount of twenty Dinars for your use of
the school hall on Tuesday, 17/2/1953, to hold the auspicious wedding ceremony.
Please note that the proceeds collected from such ceremonies will be spent on improving
the hall and furnishing it with what is necessary to hold ceremonies of this type in the future.
Please accept our highest respect.
⟦signature⟧
The Director
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FRANK INY SCHOOL
INTERMEDIATE & PRIMARY
Baghdad
Telephone No. 91693
Frank Iny School
Intermediate and Primary
Baghdad
Telephone Number 91693
No. ⟦line⟧ / No.: F 620 / 530
Date ⟦line⟧ / Date: 24 / 4 / 1953
To
General Directorate of Pensions
Greetings,
The student Maurice Menachem Aslan participated in the final school examinations
in the fourth primary grade for the academic year 1950 / 1951 and passed to the fifth
primary grade and left the school after passing the aforementioned exam, please be informed.
Please accept our highest respect.
⟦illegible signature⟧
The Director
⟦faded blue stamp⟧
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(TRUE COPY)
COLONIAL OFFICE
GREAT SMITH STREET, LONDON
S.W.1.
Please address your reply to
the DIRECTOR
OF RECRUITMENT
(Overseas Service Division)
and quote the following number:
BCD/P 19233
14th August, 1959.
Sir,
I am directed by Mr. Secretary Lennox-Boyd to inform
you that Mr. John Johnstone Irvine, who is a candidate for an
overseas educational appointment has named you as a personal
referee.
Mr. Lennox-Boyd would, therefore, be much obliged if
you would be so good as to give him your views as to this
candidate's general suitability for such an appointment;
and he would be grateful if you would make use of the
enclosed form for the purpose, as he attaches considerable
importance to the answers to the specific questions asked.
Your reply will be regarded as strictly confidential.
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient servant.
sgd.
ABDULLAH OBEDIAH, ESQ.
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(TRUE COPY)
COLONIAL OFFICE
GREAT SMITH STREET, LONDON
S.W.1.
Please address your reply to
the DIRECTOR
OF RECRUITMENT
(Overseas Service Division)
and quote the following number:
BCD/P 19233
14th August, 1959.
Sir,
I am directed by Mr.Secretary Lennox-Boyd to inform
you that Mr.John Johnstone Irvine, who is a candidate for an
overseas educational appointment has named you as a personal
referee.
Mr.Lennox-Boyd would, therefore, be much obliged if
you would be so good as to give him your views as to this
candidate's general suitability for such an appointment;
and he would be grateful if you would make use of the
enclosed form for the purpose, as he attaches considerable
importance to the answers to the specific questions asked.
Your reply will be regarded as strictly confidential.
I am,
Sir,
Your obedient servant.
sgd.
ABDULLAH OBEDIAH, ESQ.
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= ⟦illegible⟧ =
Baghdad 24 / 4 / 958
To the honorable Mr. Adnan Odia
Greetings and respect: I express how much I wished that
we could stand with you, as is our custom, at the ceremony that
the school administration holds every year, but I regret my
inability to attend this year due to illness, so I ask for
your excuse. On this occasion, I present to the teaching
staff my donation of ten dinars.
I hope you will kindly accept it, and may you remain a pride for the school.
Salman Tani
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FRANK INY SCHOOL
Intermediate & Primary
New Alwiyah - Baghdad
TELEPHONE No. 91693
Frank Iny School
Intermediate and Primary
New Alwiyah - Baghdad
Telephone: 91693
No.:
Number:
Date:
Date: 11 / 8 / 1957
To the Honorable Mr. Salman Daniel - Nice
Greetings - I am writing to you from Baghdad, where this city has been trapped in a heatwave unprecedented for
years. However, the weather has started to improve in the last two days, thank God. I hope that you and your family members
are in the best of health and wellness.
My dear Abu Daniel. Mr. Farid Samra visited me recently and asked me to write to you regarding
Mr. Frank Iny's building concerning the plots of land adjacent to the school. As the ⟦venerable⟧ committee
has begun to think seriously about establishing a school in the name of Menahem Daniel School to include some intermediate classes
from the Shamash School, the commercial branch intended to be opened in the future. Given the importance of the project and the need to complete it quickly,
Mr. Farid Samra asked me to write to you so that you may discuss the matter with Mr. Nazik Iny and finalize
the issue of selling the land to the community at its current price without the need to insist on selling it at a low price as
the committee was insisting on in the past. If it is not possible for you to convince Mr. Frank Iny to sell all the plots, it would be good if
the four plots adjacent to the school could be sold. I, in turn, ask you to take an interest in the matter and complete the sale process
in any case, given the importance of the project and the purpose for which the purchase of the land is requested.
As for the price, as I mentioned to you, the committee agrees to purchase at its current price, ⟦so I hope⟧
that you will be able to convince Mr. Nazik Iny to be as lenient as possible. If the idea of building
the Menahem Daniel School is realized, which compensates for the wing that was hoped to be added to the current school building, then
it will be possible to spend on the school from the Menahem Daniel endowments, and thus it will be possible to cover the deficit that
occurs in the school budget every year. So please attend to the sale transaction as much as you can, and many
thanks in advance.
Mr. Habib Tawfiq informed me that your protected son Sabah will return to Baghdad to participate in the entrance exam
for the fourth preparatory grade, which will take place on the 24th and 25th of next September, so we ask that there be in this decision
good for everyone. In conclusion, please convey my greetings to all your family members and to Mr. Frank Iny, and accept my
special greetings to you, and may you remain well.
Sincerely,
Abdullah Obadia
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SHAMASH SECONDARY SCHOOL Shamash Secondary School
BAGHDAD Baghdad
Tel. No. 91693 Telephone 91693
No. Sh/95/56 ⟦line⟧ Number
Date 27th June, 1956 Date
Dear Sir,
With reference to our verbal conversation on Wednesday
30th May, concerning the granting of visas to the United King-
dom to graduates of my school for the purpose of studying in
British Universities, I wish to submit the following cases
for your kind consideration:
1. Mr. Joseph Haim Hakham David, has graduated from Shamash
Secondary School in June 1955. The Anglo-Jewish Association in
London made him an award for four years' scholarship to complete
his studies in the United Kingdom. He has already secured
admission to Battersea Polytechnic in London for the session
commencing September, 1956. His father, Hakham David, is a
landlord residing in Bagdad. He has already applied to the
Iraqi Authorities for his passport which he hopes to get
shortly.
2. Miss Dora Israel Kerkoukly, a graduate of my school in
June 1955, has, as far as I know, already secured admission
to London School of English for the session commencing Sept.,
1956. Her father, Israel Kerkoukly is also a landlord resid-
ing in Bagdad. She has also applied for her passport to the
Iraqi Authorities concerned.
3. Mr. Obadiah (Latif) Sasson Shohet, Mr. David Ezra
Dabby, Mr. Meir (Edmond) Ezra Shamoon and Mr. Latif Ibrahim
Shashoue have all sat for the Iraq State Baccalaureate Examina-
tion for Secondary Education at the beginning of this month.
The results of this examination are not yet out, but all four
students stand a good chance of passing. All four intend to
join Universities in the United Kingdom if they succeed in
securing admission to such Universities for the session commenc-
ing September 1956.
Hoping that the above information will prove helpful
for granting these students visas to the United Kingdom when
they apply for such visas, and thanking you for your valuable
help and cooperation, I beg to remain, Sir,
Yours sincerely,
⟦ASObadiah⟧
Abdullah S. Obadiah
Principal
Edward Pearson Esq.,
Oriental Counsellor,
British Embassy,
Bagdad.
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SHAMASH SECONDARY SCHOOL
BAGHDAD
Tel. No. 91693
Shamash Secondary School
Baghdad
Telephone 91693
No: Sh/95/56
Number:
Date: 27th June, 1956
Date:
Dear Sir,
With reference to our verbal conversation on Wednesday
30th May, concerning the granting of visas to the United King-
dom to graduates of my school for the purpose of studying in
British Universities, I wish to submit the following cases
for your kind consideration:
1. Mr. Joseph Haim Hakham David, has graduated from Shamash
Secondary School in June 1955. The Anglo-Jewish Association in
London made him an award for four years' scholarship to complete
his studies in the United Kingdom. He has already secured
admission to Battersea Polytechnic in London for the session
commencing September, 1956. His father, Hakham David, is a
landlord residing in Bagdad. He has already applied to the
Iraqi Authorities for his passport which he hopes to get
shortly.
2. Miss Dora Israel Kerkoukly, a graduate of my school in
June 1955, has, as far as I know, already secured admission
to London School of English for the session commencing Sept.,
1956. Her father, Israel Kerkoukly is also a landlord resid-
ing in Bagdad. She has also applied for her passport to the
Iraqi Authorities concerned.
3. Mr. Obadiah (Latif) Sasson Shohet, Mr. David Ezra
Dabby, Mr. Meir (Edmond) Ezra Shamoon and Mr. Latif Ibrahim
Shashoue have all sat for the Iraq State Baccalaureate Examina-
tion for Secondary Education at the beginning of this month.
The results of this examination are not yet out, but all four
students stand a good chance of passing. All four intend to
join Universities in the United Kingdom if they succeed in
securing admission to such Universities for the session commenc-
ing September 1956.
Hoping that the above information will prove helpful
for granting these students visas to the United Kingdom when
they apply for such visas, and thanking you for your valuable
help and cooperation, I beg to remain, Sir,
Yours sincerely,
⟦AObadiah⟧
Abdullah S. Obadiah
Principal
Edward Pearson Esq.,
Oriental Counsellor,
British Embassy,
Bagdad.
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TELEPHONE
83531
5452
President of the Jewish Community
BAGHDAD
No.: 3705/56
BAGHDAD: 25th April, 1956
Dear Sir,
Mr. Abdullah S. Obadiah who is the Principal
of Frank Iny School And Shamash Secondary School
intends to go to England this summer, at our request,
for the purpose of recruiting English teachers for the
two schools. We believe that Mr. Obadiah's personal
interview of the teachers to be engaged is very essen-
tial.
I shall be much obliged if you will kindly
grant Mr. Obadiah the visa necessary for his entry
to the United Kingdom for which he has already applied.
Thanking you in anticipation, I remain, Sir,
Yours very sincerely,
⟦signature⟧
Rabbi Sassoon Khedoury,
Act. President.
H. B. M. Consul,
British Embassy,
Baghdad.
The Jewish Community
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
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SHAMASH SECONDARY SCHOOL
BAGHDAD
Tel. No. 91693
Shamash Secondary School
Baghdad
Telephone 91693
Number: SH/79/56
Date: 24th May, 1956.
Subject:
The Eastern Bank Limited,
Baghdad.
Dear Sirs,
With reference to the certificate supplied
to you by the Head of the Jewish Community in Baghdad,
in connection with the Shamash School, I shall be much
obliged if you will write to your Head Office in London
and ask them to remit to this School all funds standing
in their books to the credit of the School.
Thanking you, I remain,
Yours faithfully,
⟦ASObadiah⟧
Abdullah S. Obadiah,
Principal.
Shamash School * Baghdad *
SHAMASH SCHOOL * BAGHDAD *
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SHAMASH SECONDARY SCHOOL
BAGHDAD
Tel. No. 91693
Shamash Preparatory School
Baghdad
Telephone 91693
Subject:
Number: SH/79/56
Date: 24th May, 1956.
The Eastern Bank Limited,
Baghdad.
Dear Sirs,
With reference to the certificate supplied
to you by the Head of the Jewish Community in Baghdad,
in connection with the Shamash School, I shall be much
obliged if you will write to your Head Office in London
and ask them to remit to this School all funds standing
in their books to the credit of the School.
Thanking you, I remain,
Yours faithfully,
⟦AObadiah⟧
Abdullah S. Obadiah,
Principal.
Shamash School * Baghdad
SHAMASH SCHOOL * BAGHDAD
⟦illegible⟧
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THE EASTERN BANK LTD.
BAGHDAD
COPY
20th May, 1956.
L. No. 47/ ⟦464⟧
The President,
The Jewish Community,
Baghdad.
Dear Sir,
We refer to our conversation with you regarding the
Shamash School and shall be glad if you will arrange to get the
enclosed letter duly signed by you before H.B. Majesty's Consul
and returned to us for transmission to our London Office for
necessary action.
Yours faithfully,
⟦illegible⟧
D. L. HONEY,
Manager.
⟦illegible⟧
AB/YS.
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TELEPHONE
83531
5452
President of the Jewish Community
BAGHDAD
No. ⟦line⟧
BAGHDAD 23rd May, 1956.
The Eastern Bank Limited,
London.
Dear Sirs,
BENJAMIN SHAMASH SCHOOL, BAGHDAD.
⟦169⟧
I the undersigned, Head of the Jewish Community, Baghdad,
declare the following :
1) The Benjamin Shamash School exists as a separate entity.
2) That it does aid Jewish young men and women and boys and girls in
Baghdad to obtain a suitable education,
and
3) The name of the Present Principal is Mr. Abdullah S. Obadiah, and
the name of the treasurer is Mr. Shlomou Somekh.
Rabbi Sassoon Khedoury,
Act. President.
SWORN IN PRESENCE OF
H. B. M. Consul.
⟦illegible⟧
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COPY
15, Old Broadway,
Withington,
Manchester 20.
England.
The Acting President of 10th November 1955
the Jewish Community,
Baghdad,
Iraq.
Dear Sir,
I thank you for your letter dated 17th October and am pleased
to note from the Principal's report the present arrangements for
continuing to run the two advanced classes of the Shamash Secondary
School and I trust that these arrangements will continue for the
benefit of the pupils concerned. The other points listed in the
Principal's letter have been carefully noted and acknowledged in my
letter addressed to Mr. Salman Aboody dated 18th August last. I am
naturally anxious to do everything possible to ensure the smooth
running of the School and am of course prepared to co-operate with
you to this end. At the same time I have already pointed out to
Mr. Aboody that <del>⟦illegible⟧</del> the Shamash School Building itself and the properties
which comprise the Trust are very extensive and require continual
repairs and attention if they are to be maintained as they should be,
and I am anxious that they should on no account be allowed to fall
into decay through neglect or lack of adequate funds for maintenance
and repairs. However, in view of the contents of your letter and the
special request made to me by Mr. Salman Aboody to increase the annual
grant to a sum not exceeding ID.1300 per annum and have advised Mr.
Aboody accordingly to pay this sum in two equal instalments, the first
ID.650 on receipt of these instructions and the second being the
balance in February 1956, it being clearly understood that the above
sum of ID.1300 is in respect of the current academic year 1st October
1955 to the end September 1956.
I trust that having made this provision the Shamash Secondary
School classes will continue to benefit from the arrangements made
and that the coming year will be one of progress and achievement
reflecting credit on all concerned.
Yours very truly,
Sgd.
S.J. Shamash.
( Trustee of the Shamash Secondary School Trust)
(Copy to Mr. Salman M. Aboody acting for the Trustee in Baghdad)
I have carefully reconsidered the matter and propose to authorise
Mr. Aboody
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TELEPHONE
83531
5452
School Copy
President of the Jewish Community
BAGHDAD
No. ⟦line⟧
BAGHDAD 17th October, 1955.
Charles Shamash, Esq., London.
Trustee for the Shamash School Trust.
Dear Sir,
I am informed by Mr. Salman Aboudy who is at the present
acting on your behalf in Baghdad that you have allotted a subsidy
of £1200 from the Shamash Trust to meet part of the expenses of
Shamash Secondary School. While this gesture is to be very much
appreciated, I would request you kindly to consider increasing the
yearly subsidy by a margin which would be proportionate with the
present yearly expenses in order to ensure the smooth running of the
School.
Thanking you in anticipation, I am,
Sincerely yours
Rabbi Sassoon Khedoury
Act. President
Copy to:
Mr. Salman Aboudy,
Acting Trustee for the Shamash School Trust in Baghdad.
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To the honorable Mr. Abdullah Obadia,
After greetings: I present that I understood from brother Farid Aini that he and his wife will come to the party
and accordingly I present to you a check No. 481624 on the Mortgage Bank in ⟦the British⟧ in the amount
of 400 Dinars that was sent to you by ⟦him⟧ as payment for the expenses
which he donated for staff tips and feeding the free teachers during his time in
the school, amounting to 212 Dinars, and as for the ⟦surplus⟧ of the amount, he donated it for some matters
that you wish to carry out according to your will. This, and my best regards to you, and stay well.
Sincerely,
Suad Khalil
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Frank J. Iny, Esq.
31, Rue Montagne Aux Herbes Potagères
Brussels
(Belgium)
Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number 3531
5452
Number:
Date: 11 / 9 / 1955
Subject:
To the honorable and distinguished Mr. Frank Iny - New York
My dear Mr. Frank,
May God bless your times. I have written this letter first to inquire about your health and the health of your family, hoping you are
always well.
What prompted me to write to you now is the concern for the interest of the school that you were kind enough to donate its building and endow it
to serve the children of your community in Baghdad. May God reward you for this glorious deed. There are three matters I saw
fit to discuss with you:-
First - There are some renovations and additions to the school's structural and electrical installations that circumstances require to be carried out from
time to time according to the needs of the school and students. Among these renovations:
1 - Paving approximately (500) square meters of the school yards so that student transport buses can park and wait
there at dismissal time, to prevent congestion in the street, especially on rainy days, and to protect children from the danger
of traffic accidents they have been exposed to in the past. This process costs about (500/-) Dinars.
2 - All electrical installations in the school are unfit for use at the present time. It has happened on
many occasions during the past three years that the walls of some classrooms became electrified, endangering the lives of students
to risk. As a result of the inspection of these installations by experts, it appeared that their wiring is not proficient and that it is necessary
to make a radical change in them, which costs about (750/-) Dinars.
3 - There is the hall stage which requires about (250/-) Dinars so it can be made suitable for acting and public speaking by
the students. No doubt you are among those who appreciate these student activities at their true value, as is established and known about
your generous person.
In this case, the total urgent and necessary expenses for the school would be about (1500/-) Dinars.
The administration of the community in Baghdad does not have the resources to cover these expenses in addition to the annual expenses
others which have reached, under current circumstances, about (18,000) Dinars according to the budget that the director of
the school, Mr. Abdullah Obadia, previously showed you last year. This is knowing that the total
fees collected from students annually are always less than six thousand Dinars. Therefore, I have come to request you
to help the school administration meet these necessary needs for your school, which has become at the present time
one of the famous schools in the country, if not one of the most famous schools in Baghdad, characterized by its excellent academic
level, the upbringing of its students, its teaching staff, and its good management. For the results of the general
ministerial examinations (Baccalaureate) for the three levels—primary, intermediate, and preparatory—in our school were more brilliant than all other schools,
both official and private.
As a result
To be continued
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
3531
Telephone Number 5452
Number:
Date:
Subject:
⟦line⟧ 2 ⟦line⟧
There is no doubt that all members of the community in Baghdad thank you for this glorious and visible work and appreciate it.
Second — Your school, when first built, was established to accommodate students of an intermediate school with only (12) classes
with all other facilities such as a library, laboratories, a hall, etc... Circumstances have required that this school contain
at present students of (17) classes of all ages and genders, starting from kindergarten to the fifth preparatory grade,
It has become necessary in this situation to use the library, the hall, and the laboratories as classrooms for students, which has deprived these
students of many necessary study facilities, in addition to the crowding of some of them in some rooms that are not suitable
as classrooms.
The school principal, Mr. Abdullah Obadia, has recently developed designs (Plans)
to build an additional wing in the school consisting of two additional classrooms and two large laboratories on the lower floor with two
laboratories, one for chemistry (Chemistry Laboratory) and the other for physics (
Physics Laboratory) on the upper floor, and he will send these designs to you for your review.
In view of the school's urgent need for this project, which is considered an integral part of your original project, I hope that you,
along with the rest of the community members in Baghdad, will kindly look with favor upon bringing it into existence as soon as possible.
By doing so, you will have carried out the greatest and largest charitable project for the members of your community.
Third — The last two classes of the school, which are the fourth preparatory and fifth preparatory grades, currently contain
a large number of students with varying scientific levels and abilities. This has begun to cause major problems in teaching
regarding the reconciliation between the smart students and the weak students contained in one class.
The Presidency of the Community and the Administrative Committee, after consultation with your school principal, have thought of completing a new project, which is opening
a new preparatory school consisting of only two classes containing a homogeneous type of students, in addition to the two preparatory classes
currently existing in your school, provided that this project is funded by the endowments of the late Ezra Menachem Daniel, who
stipulated when making his endowment the building of a school in his name.
In view of the need for economy in teaching to manage this new school, we have thought of purchasing the largest
plots of vacant land adjacent to your school belonging to you, which are currently used as a warehouse for your factory in Baghdad.
In this process, two benefits can be achieved: first — using the same teachers to conduct teaching in both schools
due to their proximity to each other — second — gathering our school students in one area to facilitate their transportation and to benefit from the facilities
of both schools by all students at the same time.
Therefore, we hope that you will also favor this matter as quickly as possible and authorize whomever you appoint in Baghdad to complete
this sale transaction, and by doing so, you will have achieved a new project for the members of your community for which you deserve thanks and praise.
To be continued ⟦line⟧
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number 3531
5452
Number:
Date:
Subject:
- 2 -
Finally, I am pleased to inform you that your school has currently become the only large building for the community which
provides services for social aspects. At the prize distribution ceremony for outstanding students held by the school administration
last year, the school garden accommodated no less than (1200) individuals from the community. Previously,
the school hall witnessed a marriage ceremony (Kiddushim) in the past, and we hope that other ceremonies such as the Bar Mitzvah will be held in the future.
Also, the number of school students has been increasing for two years, especially among the children who represent the new generation.
There is no doubt that if you had not donated to build this school, the situation of the community in Baghdad would be different from what it is now
in terms of education and social life. This is a favor of yours that cannot be forgotten.
In conclusion, I hope that our hope will not be disappointed in your completion of the project you started and that you will not delay in doing everything
that would serve the public interest to elevate your good reputation, which has long been mentioned among the members of the community. May God
grant us all success in serving the group, and may you remain ( ⟦illegible⟧ )
And on the occasion of the upcoming New Year, I wish you and your family long life and health ( ⟦illegible⟧ )
. (
Sincerely,
Rabbi Sassoon Khadhuri
President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad