AI English Translation, Pages 601-625
Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number { 3531 President
5452 Secretary
Number:
Date: 11 July 946
Subject: Certificate
Based on the marriage certificate number 434, we hereby confirm that Mr. Daniel Koji
son of Jacob son of Meir Levi was married in Baghdad to Miss Salima daughter of Jacob
son of Isaac on the fourteenth day of the month of May in the year nineteen
hundred and thirty-seven.
Iraq
Finance
40 Fils
SASSOON KADOORI
SASSOON KADOORI
BAGHDAD
1932
PRESIDENT OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
⟦President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad⟧
President of the Community
That Mr. Daniel Koji son of Jacob Meir Levi is known as Koji Jacob Ha-Kohen
7427
Certificate
July 4, 946
Based on the marriage certificate number 563, we hereby confirm that Mr. Yaqub Hay bin
Haroun Murad Naqqar was married in Baghdad to Miss Farha daughter of Aboudi bin Ezra
Levi on the fifteenth day of the month of September of the year one thousand nine hundred
and forty-three.
⟦signature⟧
7/4
Head of the Community
⟦illegible stamp⟧
7424
Certificate
7 July 946
Based on the marriage contract numbered 262, we hereby certify that Mr. Eliyahu son of
Munshi son of Hezekiah Habiba was married in Baghdad to the woman named Lazah Karjiya daughter of Sassoon
son of Reuben Dallal, known by the name Limah daughter of Sassoon, on the eleventh day
of the month of December in the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six.
⟦signature⟧
7/7
Head of the Community
Good omen ⟦.⟧
For good luck, salvation, comfort, and blessing
For a good life and peace and for all Israel, Amen, may it be so
With the help of God, may He be blessed
On Friday, the 10th of Sivan, the year 5670 from creation, here in Baghdad (may God protect her), the pleasant young man, the honorable
Rahamim son of Ezra son of Ezra Levi, of blessed memory, betrothed the honorable woman, Mrs. Haviva daughter of Ezra
Dowry money | 150
Silver | 150
Gold | 100
⟦line⟧
400
Witnesses: Shimon Aaron
" Abraham Isaac
7425
Certificate
7 July 946
Based on the certificate of the Registrar of Marriage Contracts for the Israelite Community in Baghdad, we confirm
hereby that Mr. Heskel son of Ibrahim son of Isaac has entered into his engagement in Baghdad
to Miss Esther daughter of Ibrahim Kourji son of Ezra on the ninth day of the month of June
in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-six and has not yet married.
⟦signature⟧
7/7
Head of the Community
Certificate
July 7, 946
Based on the marriage register numbered 409, we hereby confirm that Mr. Salim son of
Ibrahim Shalom married in Baghdad Miss Hanini daughter of Eliyahu son of Saleh Dori
on the thirtieth day of the month of September of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty.
Sabah
7/7
On behalf of the Head of the Community
With the help of God ⟦line⟧
Before us, the undersigned valid witnesses,
Mr. ⟦Abraham⟧ son of ⟦Isaac⟧ confessed and acknowledged before us a complete confession
Valid ⟦Abraham⟧ ⟦Isaac⟧
That since the aforementioned ⟦Abraham⟧ ⟦Isaac⟧ became indebted to us the sum of ⟦five hundred⟧
and ⟦fifty⟧ ⟦Iraqi⟧ liras ⟦cash⟧ ⟦according to⟧ ⟦the document⟧
Signed witnesses
⟦Isaac⟧ ⟦Moses⟧
Sum of ⟦five hundred⟧
and ⟦fifty⟧
⟦line⟧
1100
⟦five hundred⟧
⟦fifty⟧
⟦shekel⟧
⟦signature⟧
Certificate
7424
7 July 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 Musshih Ibrahim has performed his engagement in Baghdad to
Miss Rose daughter of Saleh son of Yusuf Shahrabani on the fifth day of May
the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-six and has not yet married.
⟦signature⟧
Head of the Community
Belonging to Saleh Shahrabani father of
the girls
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S ⟦line⟧ 706
Before the honor of my teacher and rabbi, may his light shine
Today 24 Iyar 5702 from your honorable excellency, may his light shine
As the debtor and the innocent
As written now 10 March 300 before by the mercies of Akuri so I went up so here 18 Brazil
Year 23 will be dragged so Akko and Lulu in Kurar
Witnesses with us
Ezra ⟦illegible⟧
Ezra ⟦illegible⟧ 940
The young one
Binyamin Cohen
16 Kislev
29 Nisan
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75
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An act
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CERTIFICATE
July 7, 946
Based on the testimony of the Registrar of Marriage Contracts for the Israelite Community in Baghdad
We hereby confirm that Mr. Abboudi bin Aziz bin Raphael was married in Baghdad to Miss
Simha bint Yehuda bin Shabu on the twentieth day of the month of March of the year one thousand
nine hundred and forty.
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Head of the Community
Current Status
⟦signature⟧
⟦signature/mark⟧
S ⟦illegible⟧ 706/1
To the honorable treasurers of the Charity Committee, may God protect them
We are hereby sending you a sum of 200.400, two hundred Dinars and four hundred
Fils for charity, and may you merit to perform commandments
The aforementioned sum was received by Mr. Menashe Ezra son of Abraham Ezra, may God protect him
Which was donated by Mr. Ben Ezra Plon ⟦illegible⟧ M' Menashe
Shalom Ezra HaLevi
" ⟦illegible⟧
⟦line⟧
40 Ashur Ezra Cohen ⟦illegible⟧
82.500 ⟦illegible⟧
37.500 ⟦illegible⟧
40 ⟦illegible⟧
⟦line⟧
200 "
Shalom Ezra HaLevi
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⟦illegible⟧
Qadisiyah
7 July 193
No one before you sought forgiveness unless the campaign and praise ceased, what is not imitated, and for the body what does not last and gives birth to the severed
I swear I will not seek forgiveness in the Surah of the year of a banner so that a time may prove a time that might find what it seeks if I seek forgiveness for eyes
Itself was not killed in a mother, a time grows, a beam of light and a vision, a time is sent, or have you tried a dedicated span
Clarification of Brother Qasim, Consultant
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Qasim al-Ani
Date of the rest
7229
Certificate
7 July 946
Based on the testimony of the Registrar of Marriage Contracts for the Jewish community in Baghdad, we hereby
confirm that Mr. Abdullah son of Rubin son of Nahum, an Iranian, was married in Baghdad
to Miss Marcelle daughter of Daoud son of Abdullah Bassoon on the seventeenth day of the month of
November of the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty.
⟦signature⟧
Head of the Community
⟦illegible stamp with signature and date 7/7⟧
742
Certificate
July 9, 46
Based on the marriage document numbered 218, we hereby confirm that Mr. Yusuf Hayyim bin
Heskel Yusuf Aslan, known as Yusuf bin Heskel, married in Baghdad
Miss Toya daughter of Ephraim bin Rahmin on the tenth day of the month of Nisan in the year
one thousand nine hundred and forty.
⟦signature⟧
On behalf of the Head of the Community
A ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧
Sheikh Abd al-Rahman son of Sheikh Ali
Paid to Sheikh Abd al-Rahman son of Sheikh Ali
Kosher of the debts ⟦illegible⟧
Paid kosher Sheikh Abd al-Rahman debt ⟦illegible⟧ kosher all in payments in the month of ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧
Aleph son of Nissim Darwish kosher the debt in the month of ⟦illegible⟧
Sheikh Abd al-Rahman 200
Sheikh Ali 150
Kosher the debt ⟦illegible⟧
Abd al-Rahman
The Sheikh
Ali
Ali the Sheikh Abd al-Rahman
" Collected Abd al-Rahman
7423
Certificate
9 July 946
Based on the certificate of the Registrar of Marriage Contracts for the Israelite Community in Baghdad
We hereby confirm that Mr. Daoud son of Khedhouri son of Shlomo has performed his engagement in
Baghdad to Miss Salha daughter of Haroun son of Nassim on the eighth day of
the month of October of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-five and has not married yet.
⟦signature⟧
9/7
Head of the Community
8 Kislev 607
Good luck and a good sign at an excellent hour and time
On the fifth day of the week, on the twenty-seventh day of the month of Kislev
The year five thousand six hundred
And seventy-seven from the creation of the world according to the count we use here in Baghdad, the city situated on
the Tigris River, how the dear and pleasant young man, the honorable Isaac son of the honorable Joseph, may his soul rest in Eden
Said to her, this virgin, Sarah daughter of the honorable Abraham, may his soul rest in Eden
Two hundred zuzim that are due
500 | Dowry
500 | Addition
1000 | Grand Total
⟦illegible signature⟧
Aron Shimon Sassoon
Isaac Sassoon
⟦illegible blue stamp⟧
2422
July 9, 1946
Certificate
Based on the certificate of the registrar of marriage contracts for the Israelite community in Baghdad
We hereby confirm that Mr. Aziz bin Salman Orwilly has entered into an engagement in Baghdad
To Miss Simha daughter of Baruch bin Ibrahim on the second day of the month of July
of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-six, and has not yet married.
⟦signature⟧
7/9
Head of the Community
⟦faint red stamp⟧
10 Cheshvan 706
Before us in the undersigned Rabbinical Court, the Honorable Rabbi Nissim
may God protect and preserve him, son of Abraham HaLevi, may he rest in Eden, testified that on the 22nd of Adar I, year 702
a son was born to him and he named him
Rocano Nahum Levi Akori
On the fifth day of the week, 7 Nisan, we in the aforementioned Rabbinical Court received his aforementioned testimony with the nullification of protests, etc.
May he thus be blessed, the son shall live, and may he merit to raise him
The humble Sasson Sasson
The humble Ezra Sasson
The humble ⟦illegible⟧
The humble Shimon Agassi
The humble Binyamin Agassi
⟦illegible blue stamp⟧
74222
CERTIFICATE
9 July 946
Based on the certificate of the registrar of marriage contracts for the Jewish community in Baghdad, we
hereby confirm that Dr. Jack Aboudi Shabi has entered into his engagement in Baghdad to Miss
Hanini Daisy, daughter of Yehuda Haskel Nathaniel, on the fourth day of the month of April
of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-six and has not yet married.
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7/9
Head of the Community
7224
Certificate
July 9, 946
Based on the marriage certificate numbered 529, we hereby confirm that Mr. Saleh Naeem
son of Menashi Saleh, known as Naeem bin Menashi, has married in Baghdad
Ms. Farha daughter of Abboudi Chaytiat on the second day of August (year)
one thousand nine hundred and forty-five.
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9/7
Head of the Community
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Qaliyah
232 ⟦illegible⟧ 2
According to our sales transfer numbered 565 and dated 11/21/955, attached herewith
In your name and transferred under number 565 and dated 11/21/955 for an amount of ⟦illegible⟧
( ⟦line⟧ ) Dinars and six hundred and seventy-five fils only
For the price of goods sent to you according to our invoices numbered 17
⟦illegible⟧
Tobacco Monopoly Company
⟦illegible⟧
7425
9 July 946
Certificate
Based on the certificate of the person in charge of burial matters in the Israelite cemetery in Baghdad
We hereby confirm that Mr. Hayyim Raphael Kirkukli died in Baghdad on
the twenty-fifth of the month of April in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty
four.
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Head of the Community
⟦faint circular stamp⟧
⟦faint illegible text⟧
His Eminence, Head of the Jewish Community, Respected
Baghdad
After greetings
Based on the established information we have, we hereby testify that the named Yehuda bin Ezra
was born in Baghdad 1924 (the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-four AD), and for this purpose we signed
below.
On behalf of Nissim Daoud Saqeel Baruch | Cohen Moshe Abed
⟦illegible signature⟧
On behalf of Nissim Daoud Mushir Adwar
⟦illegible signature⟧
Mukhtar of Qambar Ali District
Al-Musawi
⟦illegible⟧
IRAQ POSTAGE & REVENUE
40 FILS
⟦illegible circular ink stamp⟧
Born in Baghdad on November 16, 1924
According to the birth certificate numbered
827 and dated 2/2/926
⟦signature⟧
11/4
November 18, 1948
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Republic of Iraq
Ministry of Interior
Police Directorate of ⟦illegible⟧
Office of ⟦illegible⟧
Number ⟦illegible⟧
Date ⟦illegible⟧
Subject / ⟦illegible⟧
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