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IJA 3732

Report of the Jewish Community Leadership, Bookkeeping and Accounting

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This is the report of the Baghdadi Jewish community leadership including bookkeeping and accounting from 4/1/1949 to 1/31/1953. It discusses the affects of the policies regarding abrogation of Iraqi citizenship and contains detailed accounting records of income and expenses of the Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools. The documents mostly address a proposal raised from within the Jewish Lay Council to cancel tuition to the Frank Iny and Shamash Secondary Schools due to the dire financial situation experienced by many Baghdadi Jewish families.

Metadata

Archive Reference
IJA 3732
Item Number
10172
Date
Approx. January 1, 1941 to December 31, 1950
Languages
Arabic
Keywords
Accounting, Financial, Report, Jewish Lay Council, Baghdadi Jewish Community, Abrogation of Citizenship, Employment, Baghdadi Imprint, President of the Jewish Community, Frank Iny School, Shamash Secondary School, Emigration, Legal, Meir Elias Hospital, Ezra M. Daniel Sports Ground, Printed Text, Citizenship Laws

AI English Translation, Pages 1-25

Archival unit 1

Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Report
Including
Accounts of the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
For the period
From 1-4-1949 to 31-1-1953
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Al-Rahi Press Baghdad

Archival unit 2

Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Report
Including
Accounts of the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
For the period
From 1-4-1949 to 31-1-1953
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Al-Zami Press - Baghdad

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My dear brothers,
Greetings,
The movement to revoke Iraqi citizenship from the majority of the members of this community has had
a great impact on the status of the community in terms of its law, regulations, institutions, and administration, which
led to the suspension of some provisions of the aforementioned law and regulations.
The leadership of the community has consulted the Ministry of Justice regarding some solutions that require the necessity of
liquidating the community's affairs, but the esteemed Ministry indicated the necessity of amending the Community Law No. 17 of
1939 and its Regulation No. 31 of 1930 in a way that makes them consistent with the emerging developments, and that the leadership of
the community is on its way to submitting the necessary amendments to the aforementioned law and regulation for legislation by
the competent authorities. Since we wished to withdraw from practicing our work, but for fear of the collapse of
the community's entity and to preserve its rights, we have remained diligent in our work until the completion of the amendment of the law
and the aforementioned regulation, so that others can take over the responsibility that we have carried throughout this period. We
have continued our work based on Article 39 of the Community Regulation No. 31 of 1930, and the
esteemed Ministry of Justice was informed of this by letter No. T-502688 dated
August 20, 1952.
A group of members of this community has begun spreading rumors and sayings devoid of any basis,
aiming to obstruct the progress of the work of the community's leadership at a time when it would have been more appropriate for that group to cooperate with
this leadership, which accepted responsibility in such difficult circumstances that are unprecedented in
the history of this community.
We have endured all those sayings that this group has begun to adopt, as long as we are performing our duty according
to what the law and conscience require, and driven by everything that is in the interest of the general community.
The community leadership was forced to publish a number of these recent explicit facts that occurred
as a result of Mr. Naim Ibrahim Zubaida (member of the Lay Council) issuing a statement he distributed to the members of
this community in the Torah Synagogue on November 7, 1952, the text of which we publish below:
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Statement of the Explicit Truth
My dear brothers, members of the Mosaic community,
Greetings and respect,
Based on the heavy protests made by the majority of the community members requesting the admission of their children to
the Frank Iny and Shamash schools for free, given their narrow financial situation and extreme poverty, which led to their
inability to pay school fees, and out of my sense of duty towards the members of the community and in response to their desire,
I submitted today a proposal in this regard to the Mosaic Lay Council, and this is its text:
His Excellency the President of the Lay Council of the Mosaic Community, respected,
Greetings and respect,
I am pleased to inform you that many people from this community have approached me, and they are in a
regrettable state of material need, requesting the admission of their children to the community's schools for free. I have seen that it is
a human duty to provide them with actual assistance. So I ask you to kindly present this issue
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Number ⟦illegible⟧
Report
Including
Accounts of the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
For the period
From 1-4-1949 to 31-1-1953
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Al-Zahi Press Baghdad