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IJA 3706

Verification Certificates, Citizenship Paperwork

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Description

These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community and include death certificates, birth certificates, marriage, and divorce documentation. This item also contains citizenship paperwork, documents certifying the surrendering of Iraqi citizenship in order to emigrate abroad, and letters of recommendation written for former employees. Many of the letters include photographs.

Metadata

Archive Reference
IJA 3706
Item Number
10062
Date
Approx. January 1, 1931 to December 31, 1940
Languages
Multiple Languages
Keywords
Endowments, Revenue Stamps, Travel, Death Certificate, Marriage Certificates, Annotation, Handwritten, Baghdadi Jewish Community, Ink Stamps, Divorce Certificate, Jewish Lay Council, Birth Certificate, Chief Rabbi, President of the Jewish Community, Spiritual Council, Judeo-Arabic, Typed, Photograph, Meir Elias Hospital, Abrogation of Citizenship

AI English Translation, Pages 76-100

Archival unit 76

The Person in Charge of Israeli Burial Affairs
Baghdad
⟦The Person in Charge of Israeli Burial Affairs in Baghdad⟧
Baghdad on ⟦line⟧
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
After greetings
Based on the entries recorded in my registers, I hereby certify that
the named ⟦Yousef Hawki Heskel⟧ died in Baghdad
on the ⟦seventh⟧ day of the month of ⟦June⟧ in the year ⟦5708⟧
(⟦14 / 6 / 1948⟧) and for that reason I have signed below
⟦Yousef Hawki⟧
⟦Heskel⟧
Heskel Haddad
The Person in Charge of Israeli Burial Affairs
Case filed
21/2/1951

Archival unit 77

Department Copy
51 / 5048
2/21/1951
Death Certificate
Based on the certificate of the person in charge of burial matters in the Israeli cemetery in Baghdad
We hereby confirm that the woman named Toba Daoud Shamash passed away in Baghdad on the third day
of December in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven AD.
⟦illegible⟧
Acting Head of the Community
Head of the Lay Council
Status Clerk
2/21/1951
Ibrahim / 21

Archival unit 78

The Person in Charge of Jewish Burial Affairs
Baghdad
Baghdad on ⟦line⟧
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
After greetings
Based on the records established in my registers, I hereby certify that
the named ⟦Murad Daoud Murad⟧ passed away in Baghdad
on the ⟦18th⟧ day of the month of ⟦January⟧ in the year ⟦5711⟧
⟦(18 / 2 / 1951)⟧ and for that reason I have signed below
5711
⟦Murad Daoud Murad⟧
Heskel Haddad
The Person in Charge of Jewish Burial Affairs
Copy
⟦illegible⟧
Of poor means
21 / 2 / 951
⟦The Person in Charge of Jewish Burial Affairs⟧
⟦illegible⟧

Archival unit 79

Copy to ⟦...⟧
51 / 5029
Death Certificate
22 / 2 / 1951
Based on the certificate of the person in charge of burial affairs in the Israelite cemetery in Baghdad
We hereby confirm that the person named Salim Nunu Yusuf died in Baghdad on the eighteenth
day of February in the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one AD.
⟦signature⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
Received
⟦signature⟧
Latif Al-Hak
21 / 4 / 951
Ibrahim / 21

Archival unit 80

Registrar of Engagement and Marriage Contracts
for the Jewish Community in Baghdad
Presidency of the ⟦Jewish⟧ Community
Baghdad
Number ⟦...⟧
Date ⟦...⟧
Baghdad on February 21, 1951
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
After greetings
Based on the investigations conducted by me, I hereby certify:
That: Miss Jamila daughter of Simon Isaac Michael
is not engaged or married and has no record in the relevant registers .:
Shimon Shaul H. Shimon
Shimon Shaul H. Shimon
⟦illegible⟧
Entered
⟦illegible⟧
21 / 2 / 1951

Archival unit 81

Department Copy
505 / M / 51
1951/2/21
Certificate
Based on the certificate of the Registrar of Engagement and Marriage Contracts for the Jewish Community
in Baghdad, we hereby confirm that Miss Hayla Sayon Ishaq Mikhail is neither engaged nor married
and has no record in the relevant registers.
⟦signature⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
⟦illegible⟧
⟦signature⟧
1951/4/21
Ibrahim / 21
⟦illegible⟧

Archival unit 82

Registrar of Engagement and Marriage Contracts
for the Jewish Community in Baghdad
Baghdad on: 20 / 2 / 1951
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
After greetings
Based on the marriage certificate numbered 281, I hereby certify that
Mr. ⟦Yosef son of Rahma Yosef⟧
has married in Baghdad ⟦the girl Maryam daughter of Mordechai son of Daoud Shah⟧
on the day 6 / 2 / 1919 (corresponding to ⟦6 Adar year 5679⟧)
( ⟦Wajak⟧ )
Ketubah amount: 2000 Rupees, Two Thousand Rupees
Witnesses: Saleh Hassan Yona / Baruch Eliazar
Shimon Shaul H. Shimon
⟦HEBREW TEXT⟧
⟦illegible⟧
Current status
21 / 2 / 951
Three copies

Archival unit 83

Department Copy
51 / 5051
21 / 2 / 1951
381
Numan Yaqub Rais, Iranian
Miss Rosa Mordechai Daoud Shamshash
The sixth of February of the year one thousand nine hundred and thirteen AD.
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
On behalf of the Head of the Community
Vice President of the Lay Council
Guest of the state
⟦illegible⟧
21 / 2 / 951

Archival unit 84

The caretaker of the Israeli cemetery in Baghdad, greetings from the leadership of the Israeli community in Baghdad, in Baghdad, based on the records established in my records, I hereby confirm that the named Larim Akram Ka Douala, on the 17th day of March 1975, passed away in Baghdad, and for his sake I have signed below, O father of Heskel Haddad, the caretaker of the Israeli cemetery, 2/21/95

Archival unit 85

⟦illegible⟧
51 / 5052
1951/2/21
Death Certificate
Based on the certificate of the person in charge of burial matters at the Israelite Cemetery in Baghdad
We hereby confirm that the person named Menashi Menachem Isaac Eini died in Baghdad on the
seventeenth day of June in the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five AD.
⟦signature⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
200 Fils
⟦signature⟧
51/2/21
Ibrahim / 21

Archival unit 86

Department Copy
51/5052
1951/2/28
To Whom It May Concern
Messrs. Abbas Waheeb and Ali Al-Aghwani have replaced Alwan
Hammoud in guarding the cemetery, and at the request of Mr. Heskel Haddad, we have provided him with this certificate.
⟦illegible⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
Ibrahim / 21

Archival unit 87

The Person in Charge of Jewish Burial Affairs
Baghdad
Baghdad on ⟦line⟧
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
After greetings,
Based on the records established in my registers, I hereby certify that
the named ⟦Daoud Darwish Tweig⟧ passed away in Baghdad
on the ⟦tenth⟧ day of the month of ⟦Adar⟧ in the year ⟦5711⟧
( ⟦1951/3/18⟧ ) and for this reason I have signed below.
⟦signature⟧
⟦David Darwish⟧
⟦Tweig⟧
Heskel Haddad
The Person in Charge of Jewish Burial Affairs
Case filed
1951/3/22

Archival unit 88

Department Copy
51 / 5054
Death Certificate
22 / 2 / 1951
Based on the certificate of the person in charge of burial matters in the Israeli cemetery in Baghdad
We hereby confirm that Khatoun Saleh Fathi passed away in Baghdad on the eighth day
of February of the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty-one AD ⟦line⟧
⟦signature⟧
22 / 2
Acting Head of the Community
Head of the Lay Council
Ibrahim 22 /

Archival unit 89

Registrar of Engagement and Marriage Contracts
for the Jewish Community in Baghdad
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Number ⟦illegible⟧
Date ⟦illegible⟧
Baghdad on 21 / 2 / 1951
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
After greetings
Based on the investigations conducted by me, I hereby certify
that Mr. Eliyahu Shmuel Isaac
is not engaged or married and has no record in the relevant registers.
Shimon Shaul H. Shimon
Shimon Shaul
H. Shimon
Shimon Shaul
H. Shimon
Save to file
⟦signature⟧
22 / 2 / 951

Archival unit 90

24
Department Copy
Certificate
51 / 505
2/22/1951
Based on the certificate of the Registrar of Engagement and Marriage Contracts for the Jewish Community
in Baghdad, we hereby confirm that Mr. Eliyahu Nassim Isaac is not engaged or married and has no record
in the relevant registers.
⟦illegible signature⟧
2/22
⟦illegible signature⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
⟦illegible signature⟧
2/22/951
Ibrahim / 22

Archival unit 91

⟦Presidency of the Rabbinate⟧
51 / 5052
1951 / 2 / 22
⟦illegible⟧
540
Ezra Menashi Hoki
Miss Evelyn Haron Eliyahu
The eighth of May of the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty AD.
2/22
Acting Chairman of the Committee
President of the Lay Council
Safekeeping of funds
51 / 2 / 22
Ibrahim / 22

Archival unit 92

⟦illegible⟧
51/5057
1951/2/22
⟦illegible⟧
28
Saleh Daoud Bashi, known as Saleh Daoud Bashi Boyteh
Miss Bertine Hesqel Eliyahu .
The twenty-fourth of September of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-four AD .
⟦illegible⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
⟦illegible⟧
21/2/51
Ibrahim /1

Archival unit 93

51 / 5058
1951 / 2 / 22
⟦Department Copy⟧
56
Munshi Rahmin Daoud Cohen Shamash
Miss Masouda Ishaq Hayu Qazzaz
The twenty-first of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-two
AD.
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
⟦illegible⟧
22 / 2 / 51
Ibrahim / 22

Archival unit 94

The person in charge of the Israeli cemetery in Baghdad The Presidency of the Israeli community in Baghdad - Baghdad Al-Dam After greetings, based on the records recorded in my records, I hereby confirm that the person called Dora Waha died in Baghdad on the day of Dula 14 of the month and Madar of the year Eid al-Masal (194/7/2) and for his sake I signed below Omar double the case ATT 951/4/21 DP Heskel Haddad The person in charge of the Israeli cemetery

Archival unit 95

⟦Presidency of the Community⟧
Death Certificate
51/5059
2/22/1951
Based on the certificate of the person in charge of burial affairs in the Israeli cemetery in Baghdad
We hereby confirm that Saleh Nahum passed away in Baghdad on the twenty-second day of July in the year
one thousand nine hundred and forty-three AD.
⟦signature⟧
Acting Head of the Community
Head of the Lay Council
Ibrahim / 22
⟦signature⟧
Youssef Al-⟦...⟧
2/22/951
⟦illegible⟧

Archival unit 96

Spiritual Committee of the Jewish Community
In Baghdad, May God Protect It
The Israelite Spiritual Council
In Baghdad
Number: 44
Date: 22 / 2 / 1922
We testify in the name of the Court of Justice of the Congregation of
Israelites in Baghdad that Mr. Isaac son of
Abraham (Sariyah) son-in-law of Abraham son of Elijah
(Somayech) gave a bill of divorce according to the law of Moses and Israel
to his wife Mrs. Simcha daughter of Isaac and it was
on Thursday the twenty-fourth of the month of
Adar in the year five thousand six hundred
and eighty-two from the creation of the world
⟦illegible signature⟧
50 Fils
Chief Rabbi ⟦illegible⟧ in Baghdad
CHIEF RABBI
SALMAN H. ABOUDI
BAGHDAD
Kindness of the situation
1921/2/22
Date of Engagement
28 / 2 / 1922
⟦illegible signature⟧
Date of Divorce
8 / 2 / 1922
⟦illegible signature⟧

Archival unit 97

⟦illegible⟧
51/5060
1951/6/23
Certificate
Based on the certificate of the Israeli Spiritual Council in Baghdad, we hereby confirm that
Naji Sayon son of Ibrahim married Mrs. Rosa (Matana) daughter of Ibrahim Hussein Maslawi
on the twenty-eighth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three
AD, then a divorce took place from her on the eighth day of December of the year one thousand nine hundred
and thirty-six AD.
⟦signature⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
Saved to the
⟦illegible⟧
25 / 6 / 951
Ibrahim / 25

Archival unit 98

⟦illegible⟧ Department
51/5020
2/22/1951
Certificate
Based on the certificate of the Israeli Spiritual Council in Baghdad, we hereby
certify that Naji Sion son of Ibrahim became engaged to Ms. Rosa (Matana) daughter of
Ibrahim Rahmin (Maslawi) on the twenty-eighth day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred
and thirty-three AD, and then his divorce from her took place on the eighth day of December of the year
one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six AD.
⟦signature⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
⟦signature⟧
2/22/951
Ibrahim / 22

Archival unit 99

The Person in Charge of Jewish Burial Affairs
Baghdad
⟦Presidency of the Jewish Community⟧
⟦Baghdad⟧
Baghdad on ⟦line⟧
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
After greetings
Based on the records established in my registers, I hereby certify that
The named ⟦William Murad Meir⟧ passed away in Baghdad
On the ⟦11th⟧ day of the month of ⟦January⟧ in the year ⟦5712⟧
(1/12/1952) and for that reason I have signed below
⟦Signature⟧
⟦Murad Murad⟧
⟦Meir⟧
Heskel Haddad
The Person in Charge of Jewish Burial Affairs
⟦Fairness of the situation⟧
⟦Signature⟧
2/22/1951
⟦illegible⟧

Archival unit 100

Department Copy
⟦illegible⟧
506 / 51
Feb. 23 51
BIRTH CERTIFICATE
In accordance with testimonials presented, I hereby
confirm that Mr. IFRAIM HESKEL GABBAY was born at Baghdad
on the year 1895 (eighteen hundred ninty five ) .
⟦illegible⟧
⟦signature⟧
Ofg. President,
JEWISH COMMUNITY BAGHDAD/.
President*
JEWISH LAY COUNCIL BAGHDAD.
⟦illegible signature⟧
2/22/1951