Verification Certificates of Baghdadi Jewish Community Members
View interactive document pageThese are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are birth, engagement, and marriage verification certificates, as well as certificates of non-impediment and documents outlining dowries. Certificates record events back to the 1900s.
⟦7438⟧ Certificate 8 September 946 Based on the marriage certificate numbered 409, we hereby confirm that Mr. Eliyahu bin Hayyim bin Yaqub married in Baghdad Miss Rosa daughter of Shlomo bin Ishaq on the twenty-fifth day of the month of March of the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-seven ⟦illegible signature⟧ ⟦8/9⟧ Head of the Community
vera Certificate September 8, 946 Based on the certificate of the Registrar of Marriage Contracts for the Jewish Community in Baghdad, we hereby certify that Mr. Yusuf Daoud Ishaq Musaffi became engaged in Baghdad to Miss Reneh daughter of Robin son of Hesqel Shabi on the twenty-eighth day of the month of August of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-six and has not married yet. Head of the Community ⟦illegible signature⟧
706/410 Before us in the court, the witnesses below signed On Sunday, the 13th of the month of Elul, in the year 5695 from Creation Here in Baghdad, may God protect it Cohen ⟦Abraham⟧ son of the young man Joseph son of Isaac Ezra appeared - in Baghdad on the 23rd of Tammuz son of Isaac Ezra, and in his hand a birth certificate from the government and witnesses signed below testified about him Selim Abraham Nissim Meir Obadiah For my blood ⟦...⟧ 180 0120 0300 We received 18 Ma'aseya Sasson ⟦illegible⟧
7271 Certificate 8 September 946 Based on the marriage record numbered 347, we hereby certify that Mr. Ya'qub son of Heskel Benjamin Muzayyin married in Baghdad Miss Khatoon daughter of Nahum son of Isaac on the nineteenth day of the month of June in the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-five ⟦illegible⟧ Head of the Community
⟦7272⟧ Certificate 8 September 946 Based on the marriage record numbered 349, we hereby confirm that Mr. Haskil Naji son of Yusuf, known as Haskil son of Yusuf son of Moshi Lawi, married in Baghdad Miss Marcelle Kamar, known as Marcelle daughter of Barukh son of Rahmin Zalouf, on the twenty-fifth day of May in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-two. ⟦signature⟧ Head of the Community
Certificate 8 September 946 Based on the certificate of the Registrar of Marriage Contracts for the Israeli community in Baghdad, we hereby confirm that Mr. Rahmin Naeem, known as Naeem bin Shaul Sawn Cohen, became engaged in Baghdad to Miss Juliet, daughter of Yaqub bin Ishaq, on the first day of the month of Nisan in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-five, and has not yet married. Head of the Community
A 716 v.y To the good name Bar Mazal H. Sasson Pinchas May his light shine On Wednesday, the 25th of the month of Adar II, the year 5689 of the creation Here, Baghdad On the first day of the week, the eighteenth day of the month of Tishrei, the year five thousand six hundred and seventy-six of the creation of the world According to the count we count here in Baghdad, the city situated on the Tigris River, how the pleasant young man, the honorable Isaac son of the deceased, the honorable Sasson Pinchas May his light shine Dowry | Simple | 100 Addition | 200 Gift | 200 Total | 500 Shimon Sasson Maatouk Sasson Authorized witnesses May their light shine Isaac Joseph Menachem
Certificate September 8, 946 Based on the certificate of the Registrar of Marriage Contracts for the Jewish community in Baghdad We hereby confirm that Mr. Benjamin bin Ezra bin Haskel Salem has entered into his engagement in Baghdad to Miss Juliet daughter of Salem bin Haskel Salem on the twenty-sixth day of the month of December of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty- four and has not married yet. ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦8/9⟧ President of the Community
20 Adar 706 Before us signed Mr. Ezra Hai son of Shelomo, may his light shine And admitted that he received from the hand of Mr. Avraham, may his light shine, Kohen Kosher Gamliel Nafus Shara In our testimony signed Mr. Avraham son of Yehezkel Kohen his servant son of Ezra son of Yehezkel Salem in Baghdad Thus said son of Yehezkel Salem before us his testimony according to law and religion regarding a debt from Baghdad Ezra son of Shelomo Sasson, may God preserve him and grant him life 100 Avraham son of Yehezkel Kohen, may his end be good Witnesses Shimon Hazan " Avraham Yitzhak The Tree ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ In ⟦Basra⟧ 230 September 8 Based on the request of Mr. ⟦Isaac⟧ Effendi Al-Ani and the attached certified certificate for Mr. ⟦Yusuf⟧ Effendi Ezra son of ⟦Ezra⟧ his father, and audited by us from the ⟦Presidency⟧ of the Mosaic Community in Basra being a legal ⟦guardian⟧ in the Sharia Court from his deceased father ⟦Isaac⟧ Effendi ⟦Ezra⟧ his father ⟦pursuant to⟧ the decision of the Sharia judge on ⟦12⟧ November year ⟦1928⟧ by us, the ⟦Head⟧ of the Mosaic Community in Basra ⟦...⟧ ⟦Head⟧ of the Mosaic Community in Basra ⟦...⟧ Head of the Mosaic Community
Certificate 19 August 946 Based on the marriage certificate numbered 73, we hereby certify that Mr. Moussa Salim, known by the name Salim son of Robin son of Moallem Saleh Eliezer, married in Baghdad the one named Habiba daughter of Rabbi Moshe son of Ibrahim Mordechai on the seventeenth day of the month of October in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-four. Head of the Community
Jewish Hospitals' Administration MEIR ELIAS HOSPITAL Baghdad TELEPHONE No, 3006 } BAGHDAD 7480 Jewish Hospitals' Administration Meir Elias Hospital Baghdad Telephone No. 3006 Baghdad 7480 No. 146/18 Date: 11 / 2 / 1946 To whom it may concern, This is to certify that Mme Rashel Jaques Safir delivered in this Hospital on the 22nd of Oct. 939 a baby named "Edward" . ⟦illegible signature⟧ Administrative Director. I hereby certify that the above signature belongs to the Administrative Director of Meir Elias Hospital, Baghdad. Baghdad 11/2/1946 ⟦illegible script⟧ President The Jewish Community Baghdad.
Baghdad 8th August 1946 Birth Certificate. In accordance with testim- onials presented I hereby con- firm that Mr. ELIAHU ABRAHAM JOORY was born in Baghdad in the year 1923 (nineteen hundred & twenty-three A.D.) President The Jewish Community , Bgd. 8 August 946 Birth Certificate Based on the documents presented we confirm herewith that Mr. Eliahu Ibrahim Joory was born in Baghdad in the year 1923 one thousand nine hundred and twenty- three AD. President of the Community
Permission ⟦...⟧ Azhar We certify that the gentleman called ⟦Albert⟧ Ibrahim ⟦George⟧ And his date of birth is the year 1927 ⟦in⟧ Basra Deceased in Baghdad on the day 22 / ⟦12⟧ / ⟦1972⟧ The two witnesses ⟦Organized⟧ for the purpose of After the official request Mukhtar Neighborhood Al-Musawi Bakr ⟦...⟧ ⟦Albert Ibrahim George⟧ ⟦Basra / 1927⟧