AI English Translation, Pages 301-325
Certificate
13 May 946
Based on the certificate of the Registrar of Marriage Contracts for the Israeli community in Baghdad, we confirm
hereby that Mr. Heskel son of Eliyahu son of Shlomo has performed his engagement in Baghdad
to Miss Daisy daughter of Shlomo son of Heskel Abu Al-Shibl on the nineteenth day
of the month of February of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-five and has not married yet.
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5/12
On behalf of the Head of the Community
The current deceased
With the help of Heaven ⟦...⟧
To the honor of the excellence of the great Rabbi, pious and humble
The honor of our teacher and master ⟦...⟧ son of the honor of our teacher and master ⟦...⟧ may his light shine
In the city of ⟦...⟧
After inquiring after the peace of his high and exalted Torah excellence as is fitting
We shall reply to his words from the day ⟦...⟧ of the month ⟦...⟧ year ⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧ from his honor ⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧ on the day ⟦...⟧ of the month ⟦...⟧
According to his words, your servant
Yeshayahu ⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧
City of ⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧
7226
Certificate
13 May 946
Based on the certificate of the marriage contracts register for the Israelite community in Baghdad, we confirm
hereby that Mr. Heskel son of Eliyahu son of Shmuel has performed his engagement in Baghdad
to Miss Issam, known as Naima, daughter of Eliyahu Houri, on the
twenty-ninth day of the month of October of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-five
and has not married yet.
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Head of the Community
Current Status
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Certificate
May 5, 1946
Based on the testimony of the Registrar of Marriage Contracts for the Israeli community in Baghdad, we certify
hereby that Mr. Yusuf Nizam, known as Yusuf bin Shlomo Meir Abdul Aziz,
has contracted his engagement in Baghdad to Miss Doreen Gurji Salem Abdo on the
eleventh day of April of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-six,
and that engagement among Israelis is a legal contract between the betrothed man and woman which
the two parties cannot annul except after performing the necessary divorce rituals.
⟦Alloush⟧
Head of the Community
27 Nisan 706
For a good name, for good luck, and for a time of blessing and success
May the Lord our God be with us as He was with our forefathers; may He not leave us nor forsake us
With the help of God Almighty
On the sixth day of the week, six days of the month of Adar, the year five thousand seven hundred and six of the creation of the world
According to the count we use here in Baghdad, a city situated on the Tigris River, well water, and rainwater
How the pleasant and delightful groom, the Honorable Isaac son of the Honorable Isaac
Said to this beautiful and pleasant virgin ⟦illegible⟧
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Witnesses Isaac son of the Honorable
" Joseph Muallem
Simeon Aaron
Ma'tuk
Simeon
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List
234 Kiseh to 5
We, the undersigned below, attended as commissioned by the Spiritual Council of the Mosaic Sect in Baghdad to inspect
the house of Mrs. Maryam, daughter of Yusuf bin Yusuf Al-Saati, located in the Western Sababigh Al-Al neighborhood.
After we visited and inspected the house, we found it contains five ground rooms with a kitchen, and within its premises a harvest store.
On the upper floor, it contains five rooms with the roof, and its annual value is approximately eighty-eight dinars.
After we estimated its annual value at eighty-eight dinars, we estimated its original value at 1200, one thousand two hundred dinars only.
We have written this report as commissioned on the 15th day of the 12th month of the year 1947. This is what we have, and we signed below for information.
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Baghdad
On December 15, 1947
724
Certificate
May 13, 946
Based on the certificate of the Registrar of Marriage Contracts for the Israeli Community in Baghdad
We hereby confirm that Mr. Salim son of Hesqel son of Sasson Shamoon has betrothed
his fiancée in Baghdad, Miss Nuna daughter of Salim son of Shlomo, on the
eighteenth day of the month of March in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-six
and has not yet married.
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5/12
Head of the Community
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To the presence of the honorable Sheikh,
The respected Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al Saud, may he be protected,
After greetings and salutations,
Yes, my lord,
My servants, your servant, in this year may purchase amber/rice from Al Saud from the amount of
Upon the arrival of this letter to you,
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Arab Musa Ji
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Shimon ⟦illegible⟧
Mash'ala
Afash
7291
Certificate
May 13, 946
Based on the certificate of the Registrar of Marriage Contracts for the Israelite Community in Baghdad, we hereby
confirm that Mr. Zakkai son of Yaqub Yehuda has entered into his engagement in Baghdad to
Miss Rachel daughter of Ibrahim son of Daoud Pinhas on the twenty-fourth day of
the month of April in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-six and has not yet married.
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5/12
Head of the Community
30 Adar I 5667
This shall be as testimony and proof in the hand of
The dear and exalted, the honored Rabbi Isaac son of Isaac son of Abraham son of Isaac son of Levi
As we, the undersigned below
Testify before us, that which was in our presence, and he admits before us a complete and final admission according to law and statute
The dear and exalted, the honored Rabbi Isaac mentioned above, that he received and purchased from the dear and exalted, the honored Rabbi ⟦...⟧
A sum of twenty-four gold liras ⟦...⟧
A sum of ⟦...⟧ gold liras ⟦...⟧
Witnesses testifying in writing
Isaac son of Isaac ⟦...⟧
Simeon Ovadia
Intermediary
Ovadia
7292
Certificate
12 May 946
Based on the certificate of the Registrar of Marriage Contracts for the Israelite Community in Baghdad
We hereby confirm that Mr. Yusuf Huwaym, known as Yusuf bin Moshi Sofer
has entered into his engagement in Baghdad to Miss Mazli daughter of Nassim bin Ishaq Huwaym
Sofer on the fourth day of the month of February in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-six
and has not yet married.
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12/5
Head of the Community
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7227
Certificate
13 May 1946
Based on the marriage certificate number 88, we hereby confirm that Mr. Naeem son of Shaul
Hakham Abboudi was married in Baghdad to Miss Salha daughter of Ephraim son of Eliyahu
Habousha Levi on the twenty-ninth day of the month of October in the year
one thousand nine hundred and forty-four.
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5/12
Head of the Community
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Committee of the Chief Rabbi for the Jews of Baghdad
The Rabbinical Court of Justice of the Israelite Community in Baghdad
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In my eyes Kohen 1st, ABG D-H, day in the month of Elul, year two thousand five hundred and thirty-seven
according to the era we are accustomed to count here in Baghdad
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⟦illegible⟧ ⟦line⟧ the Sage and Judge, my teacher and rabbi, Yitzhak Nissim, may God protect him
⟦illegible⟧ my servant
Signed witnesses
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Baghdad
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Abd al-Salam
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7249
Certificate
13 May 946
Based on the certificate of the Registrar of Marriage Contracts for the Jewish Community in Baghdad, we hereby
confirm that Mr. Khedhouri son of Salman son of Hayyim Dallal has entered into an engagement in
Baghdad with Miss Jahla daughter of Shlomo son of Daoud on the eighteenth day of
the month of December of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-five and has not yet married.
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5/12
Head of the Community
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To the honor of our friend, the dear and exalted, Mr. Rabbi Abraham, may his light shine
May God grant you life and merit to see the building of Ariel, speedily in our days, Amen
After greetings as is customary
We hereby inform you that we received your letter from the day of ⟦illegible⟧ and in it you sent
to us the sum of ⟦illegible⟧ Egyptian pounds and the sum of ⟦illegible⟧ English pounds
and we thank you for the trouble and the labor you have done for us
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27 500 Egyptian pounds
25 000 English pounds
43 500 Total
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150
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Eve of the Holy Sabbath day
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7247
Certificate
14/4 May 946
Based on the certificate of the registrar of marriage contracts for the Israeli community in Baghdad, we certify
hereby that Mr. Heskel son of Daniel Khadhuri son of Moshi Hayyu, known by the name
Heskel Khadhuri, married in Baghdad Miss Naima daughter of Mordakh son of Ibrahim
Rahmin on the sixteenth day of the month of December in the year one thousand nine hundred
and thirty-six.
⟦Heskel⟧
On behalf of the Head of the Community
Employee in the Secretariat of the Capital
7246
Certificate
13 May 946
Based on the marriage certificate numbered 420, we hereby confirm that Mr. Abid bin Qoja
bin Abid was married in Baghdad to Miss Emilie daughter of Yusuf bin Ibrahim
Cohen on the fourteenth day of the month of April in the year one thousand nine hundred
and forty-six.
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12/5
Head of the Community
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7448
Certificate
14 May 946
Based on the marriage certificate numbered 431, we hereby confirm that Mr. Heskel bin
Eliyahu bin Nahum was married in Baghdad to Miss Nazli daughter of Ibrahim bin
Hanouni on the thirty-first day of the month of May of the year one thousand nine hundred
and forty-five.
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5/14
Head of the Community
Current Record
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With the help of God, may He be blessed
Behold, by this I have made known, God forbid, on Tuesday the 17th
of the month of Adar I, the year 5680 of the Creation, here
in Baghdad, may God protect it
Before us, the undersigned, Mr. ⟦Isaac⟧ son of ⟦the late⟧ Ezra Shalom, ⟦Menashe⟧
son of ⟦Simeon⟧ Joseph, in the presence of ⟦Menachem⟧, acknowledged and confessed
The young Simeon Ezra
S' ⟦29⟧ S'
Servant of God
The young
Isaac
Ezra
Signed witnesses
"Abraham Isaac"
Certificate
May 14, 1946
Based on a certificate from the Registrar of Marriage Contracts for the Israeli Community in Baghdad, we
hereby confirm that Mr. Munshi son of Rahmin Munshi married in Baghdad Miss Maryam daughter
of Salman son of Ma'touq Yamil on the eleventh day of the month of Nisan in the year one
thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight, then divorced her on the sixteenth day of the month of March
in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-one.
⟦Salih⟧
2/15
Head of the Community
29/10/706
To the honor of His Excellency Mr. Sassoon Khedouri, may his light shine
Today we received from your Excellency the sum of 250 Dinars, may his light shine
In the name of the poor ⟦and⟧ the education
In my debt, after 20 days from the date of this your letter to us, we shall pay you
the amount of this aforementioned sum above on the 10th of Kislev
The humble Sassoon Ovadia son of the Rabbi Eliyahu Mizrahi
The humble Sassoon ⟦...⟧
Mut'allam
Ashash
Witnesses: Shimon Sassoon
" Ezra Yehezkel
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Tuesday
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Certificate
13 May 946
Based on the certificate of the Registrar of Marriage Contracts for the Israeli Community in Baghdad, we hereby
confirm that Mr. Yahya Naji bin Moshi Saleh Shakarji held his engagement in
Baghdad to Miss Frayha bint Ezra Saleh Shakarji on the twenty-second day
of the month of January in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-six and has not yet married.
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5/13
Head of the Community
29 ⟦illegible⟧ 706
To the honor of the distinguished and exalted minister, the honorable
Yosef Avraham Shalom, may God protect and preserve him,
his honor and the peace of all those accompanying him, Amen.
After peace, his honor is informed hereby that from you we received twenty-seven gold liras of
twenty-eight French francs only, and not less than this at all.
Ovadia Yehoshua, may God protect him
Yitzhak Avraham, may God protect him
Total eighty-six liras
1000 Kurush
200 ⟦illegible⟧
1200
Yehoshua Yitzhak, may God protect him
Menashe
Shlomo
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7251
Certificate
13 May 946
Based on the certificate of the registrar of marriage contracts for the Israelite community in Baghdad, we confirm
herewith that Mr. Gurji son of Mordechai son of ⟦Munshi⟧ Sassoon Muzayyan has conducted his engagement in
Baghdad to Miss Elise daughter of Joshua son of Abboudi Fatya on the twenty-second
day of the month of February of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-six and has
not married yet .
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Head of the Community
7252
Certificate
May 13, 1946
Based on the investigations conducted by the Registrar of Marriage Contracts for the Israeli Community
in Baghdad, we hereby certify that Miss Regina, daughter of Ezra Houri, is neither engaged nor married,
and that she has no record in the relevant registers.
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5/13
Head of the Community
Valid Certificate
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