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July 21, 947
Respected Director of the Jafaria Private Schools Association
Greetings,
With reference to your circular regarding the Jafaria Private Library project.
I am pleased to send you, with the bearer, a copy of the book "The Travels
of Benjamin" as a modest gift for your library project, with my sincere wishes to your association
for prosperity and success.
Sincerely,
Sassoon
Head of the Community
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His Eminence Rabbi Sassoon Khadduri, Respectfully
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Iraq
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Honorable Mayor of the Capital
After greetings and respect,
We request your kindness in exempting us from paying the security fees incurred by the headquarters of the administration of the Jewish
Community in Baghdad, ⟦located⟧ on Qanbar Ali Street No. 16 / 118, given the
general purpose intended from the occupation of this place.
Please accept our highest gratitude and respect.
Sassoon
Head of the Community
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1947/7/6
His Excellency the Respectable Minister of Social Affairs
After greetings and respect
The person named Moshe Daniel has visited us and explained that he is afflicted with tuberculosis and
doctors have advised him to travel outside of Iraq for treatment in one of the sanatoriums of
Lebanon.
And in view of his poverty and his inability to travel at his own expense, and knowing
the compassion Your Excellency holds for those so afflicted, I have seen fit to petition you
to kindly look into the possibility of sending him for treatment in one of the sanatoriums of Lebanon
at the expense of your esteemed ministry.
With our thanks in advance, please accept, Your Excellency, the assurance of our highest respect
Sassoon
Head of the Community
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Al-Ittihad Private School
Founded in
1945
Baghdad
The school that gained the satisfaction of parents and became the aspiration of youth
For its service, sincerity, and methods of education
Announces ...
Its acceptance of new students
In its two departments
Day and Evening
Starting from 17 / 9 / 1947 daily between eight and ten in the morning
And between four and six in the evening
So seize, oh worker
This opportunity to build your future and hurry to register in the evening department
Of Al-Ittihad Private School
And oh parents who care about the success of their children
Hurry to register your daughters and sons before it is too late
An excellent group of female and male teachers participate in teaching
School Administration
Al-Nahda Press * Baghdad
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To the Respected Director of the Charitable Sewing and Embroidery Institute
After greetings and respect,
I request that you provide possible assistance to the girl named Daisy Naji Eliyahu
regarding school fees. With many thanks in advance.
Sincerely,
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Baghdad 20 / 11 / 945
On behalf of the Head of the Community
⟦To the Accountant⟧
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24 / 10 / 1947
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The Baghdad District Electric Lighting and Power Company Limited
Greetings,
Further to our letter numbered 463 and dated 16 / 10 / 1947
regarding the transfer of electrical installations from house no. 16 / 118 Torah
(former headquarters of the Community Presidency) in the name of Mr. Reuben Haskil Ezra.
We hereby authorize Mr. Shara' Sion Shamael, accountant of the Community Presidency,
to collect the insurance deposits held with you in the name of the Community, and we request that you kindly pay them
to him.
Please accept our respects.
President of the Community
President of the Community
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General Railway Directorate
Baghdad
Greetings,
We request that you kindly provide us with three tons of firewood for use
in the office of the Presidency of the Community in Baghdad.
It is not hidden from your respected directorate that this office is one of the
public institutions.
Please accept our deepest gratitude and respect,
Head of the Community
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11/1947/
His Excellency the Honorable Mayor of the Capital
After greetings
We request you to kindly give your orders to exempt the new Community Presidency headquarters
located in building No. 152 / 113 Qanbar Ali from guard fees, noting
that the previous Community Presidency headquarters No. 16 / 118 Torah was exempt from guard fees
considering it as one of the charitable institutions.
Please accept, Your Excellency, the assurance of our highest gratitude and respect,
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Special No. 84
Date 11/10/1947
11/10/1947
His Eminence the President of the Respectable Spiritual Council
After greetings
Further to our letter No. 19 dated 4/23/1947 regarding the assignment of Mr. Nassim
Hakham Shalom to undertake the task of training those wishing to learn the principles of slaughtering according to the Jewish law
The Council has decided to renew the granting of a monthly allowance of two dinars to the aforementioned person
for a further six months starting from the first of November 1947, provided that this is reconsidered
at the end of April 1948 in light of the results obtained from training the new Shohatim.
Please accept our respect!
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Vice President
Copy to -
His Excellency the President of the Community - for your kind information
Mr. Nassim Hakham Shalom
Accountant - to act accordingly
A. O.
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24 / 4 / 1947
His Eminence, President of the Israeli Spiritual Council in Baghdad, the Respected
After greetings
I have received a letter from the Lay Council No. 20 dated 23 / 4 / 1947
Requesting that necessary measures be taken to select other registrars under the same arrangement
Currently in place with the registrar of marriage contracts in order to facilitate people's interests, given
The expansion of the city and the inadequacy of a single registrar for marriage contracts.
So I request taking what is necessary in this regard, and please accept my respect
Sassoon
Head of the Community
Copy to
His Excellency President of the Lay Council - for your kind information, with reference
To your aforementioned letter.
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JEWISH LAY COUNCIL
BAGHDAD
TELEPHONE NO. 3531
JEWISH LAY COUNCIL
IN BAGHDAD
TELEPHONE NO. 3531
Number: 20
Date: 27 / 4 / 947
Subject Summary:
His Excellency the President of the Jewish Community, respected
After greetings
We hereby approve the payment of nine Dinars as allowances for the additional assistants to the Registrar of
Sermons and Marriage Contracts on the occasion of the pledge season, deducting half of this amount from the Community Fund's share
of the Ketubot fees, and the other half shall be deducted from the Hospital Fund's share.
We hope you take note that we have approved the payment of this amount exceptionally and we will not pay any
amount of this kind in the future.
Given the expansion of the city and the insufficiency of a single Registrar for Marriage Contracts, we request you to task the Spiritual Council
to take the necessary measures to select other registrars under the same arrangement currently in place
with the present Registrar of Marriage Contracts in order to facilitate the interests of the people.
Please accept our respects
⟦Salman Shina⟧
President
Copy to His Excellency the Chairman of the Jewish Hospitals Committee, respected - for your kind information
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Private Number 82
Date 27 / 4 / 947
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Nasiriyah Municipality Presidency
Number 8979
Editing
Date 23 / 7 / 947
To whom it may concern
The bearer, Mr. Abdul Majeed Shukr, was an employee in our municipality in the position of ⟦...⟧ clerk
typist, and he is proficient in typing on the mentioned machine, and his morals are good and his behavior is satisfactory ⟦...⟧
Based on his request, we have provided him with this document ⟦...⟧
Mayor of Nasiriyah
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2/1/1947
My dear friend Mr. Abdul Majeed, the respected
I send you a fragrant peace and sincere greetings, please accept them. My inquiry is about your health, and if
you ask about me, I am in good health; I lack nothing except your precious absence.
My dear, I received your letter and read it happily, and I am sorry for what happened
between me and you, but the fault is yours, my dear; if the promise had not been broken, this
would not have happened before.
And now I am very sorry and I beg your pardon. Do you agree now to
marrying me? I am ready to enter the religion of Islam and pay you the sum of 200 dinars
and you will also receive your reward from God, and I am your old friend. So if you agree
now to marry me, tell me immediately so I can head over. And if you have another friend
whom you want and believe you will take, then please tell me so that I may cut off hope
from you, because now my mind is always with you.
It is mentioned that you want to move to Nasiriyah; is this true or are you lying to me?
My dear, remember to send the letter by Saleh so it does not reach the commission.
Your wish is my command. Many letters, my dear, are of no use; so if it is true according to
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Your words that you love me, so why did you not take me when I am ready to enter
Islam.
Fouad my dear, please if you desire to marry me tell me, and if you do not desire
also tell me so that I may cut off my hope for you, and finally I wish you happiness
and prosperity.
Your friend
Naima
Then my dear, I ask for your excuse for the delay in the reply
as I was busy, and there is in the ⟦Al-Yaqoubi⟧ hospital
a nurse named Sabiha, she is also Jewish, I know her
but she does not know me, please give her my greetings, and she is also a cultured and honorable girl, and I
will send you a letter, and my greetings to your friend ⟦the glorious⟧ Saleh
Naima
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To the respected sister Sabiha Daoud
The Station
Very Urgent
I offer you a fragrant peace and sincere greetings, and I hope you accept them,
I have previously sent you four letters and I was waiting for your answer, but unfortunately I did not receive
any answer from you,
And on the date of 12/9, I also sent you a letter with a second letter inside it addressed to your servant
Saleh so that it would be returned from him to my friend the official Abdul Majeed, the lines officer, as I told you in my letter that I
am not able to send a letter to my friend directly through his department for fear that he might get upset because he told me to send
the letters to him through your servant Saleh. And according to what I heard that you are working as a nurse in the hospital
I sent you these letters for the sake of helping me, even though I have no relationship with you, but according to humanity
and in your capacity as a Muslim girl, I thought that you would help me with the case, but I did not receive any answer from you, so my soul
is troubled. Therefore, I will mention the story to you in detail:
My aforementioned friend had promised to marry me after my entry into the honorable Islamic religion, and I agreed to that
because he is an honorable young man and from an honorable and high-class family after I inquired about him, but he started giving me appointments
and did not give me a firm word regarding marriage. However, on that day I visited his father and his family and informed them of the matter, and they welcomed that and said
that our son will not marry anyone else but you, do not keep thinking, and indeed his father did not agree for my friend to marry his cousin, so they went out and gave her
to a stranger, all of that on the account that my friend would take me. As a result of these actions, my friend got upset with his family
and requested a transfer to Baghdad, but his father contacted the Governor to refuse his transfer, and indeed the Governor did not agree to
his transfer, but my friend got annoyed and submitted his resignation from his job and traveled to Baghdad without the knowledge of his family and without
⟦...⟧ but after that his father filed a complaint against me claiming that the escape of my son from me is because of you, Naeema, and I have
no one but this son, and I am a man of property and old in age and have daughters, who will perform my duties after me? So you must
go yourself and search for him. So I immediately took a leave of one month and came to Baghdad for his fame
but I did not find him, so I surrendered the matter to God, but I took mediation to transfer me to Baqubah, and indeed I moved to
Baqubah, and I am in a bad state because of this case, so I started reading the newspapers. On the date of 10/6/1946
I found in Al-Hawadeth newspaper the promotion and appointment of officials, so I found the name of my friend among them; he was appointed as a lines officer
in Baghdad with a salary of 14 Dinars plus the cost of living allowance, so joy and happiness took hold of me and I sent immediately