AI en Translation, Pages 51-75
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The telegram received from Tokyo to the Red Cross Society in Geneva with its translation in Arabic regarding
the death of Iraqis in one of the camps in Java
" Iraquian ships first engineer ellis de died 1.7.44 of heart atrophy
" Iraquian sassoon E died 12.12.44 of heart atrophy -
" Iraquian merchant sassoon salomon died 12.4.45. of cerebral haemorrhage-
all buried .
The first Iraqi marine engineer Ellis D. died on 7/1/1944 from heart atrophy
The Iraqi Sassoon A. died on 12/12/1944 from heart atrophy
The Iraqi merchant Sassoon Solomon died on 4/12/1945 from cerebral hemorrhage .
All were buried
For filing
Miscellaneous
Page 52
The telegram received from Tokyo to the Red Cross Society in Geneva with its translation in Arabic regarding
the death of Iraqis in one of the camps in Java
" Iraquian ships first engineer ellis ⟦ab⟧ died 1.7.44 of heart atrophy
" Iraquian sassoon E died 12.12.44 of heart atrophy -
" Iraquian merchant sassoon salomon died 12.4.45. of cerebral haemorrhage-
all buried .
The first Iraqi marine engineer Ellis ⟦Ab⟧ died on 1 / 7 / 944 from heart atrophy
The Iraqi Sassoon E. died on 12 / 12 / 944 from heart atrophy
The Iraqi merchant Sassoon Solomon died on 12 / 4 / 945 from cerebral hemorrhage.
All were buried
1908
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8958
August 12, 946
Excellency, President of the Water Supply Committee
for the City of Baghdad, Respected
After greetings,
We kindly request you to order the installation of water pipes and the delivery of running water to
the building of the Israelite Religious Court in Baghdad, located in the Al-Tawrat neighborhood,
No. 63 / 137, with the request to consider this application of ours as urgent, and we offer you
much thanks in advance.
Head of the Community
⟦executor⟧
⟦...⟧
⟦illegible⟧
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The Religious Court of the Holy Congregation
Baghdad, may God protect it
Jewish Religious Court - Baghdad
JEWISH RELIGIOUS COURT
BAGHDAD
Number :: 968
Date :: 12 / 8 / 947
File number:
His Eminence Rabbi Sassoon Khedhouri, the respected
President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Number 404
Date 12 / 8 / 947
We ask your eminence to kindly
request the Water Supply Committee in Baghdad to install pipes and connect
running water to the building of the Jewish Religious Court in Baghdad
The President
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
Address
Torah Quarter
In front of the Orfali Jewish School for Girls
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8959
12 August 946
To the Respectable Director General of Telegraphs and Posts
After greetings,
The building of the Jewish Religious Court in Baghdad, which also includes the headquarters of
the Presidency of the Jewish Spiritual Council and the Jewish Sharia Court of Cassation
located in Zilka Synagogue No. 63/13, Al-Tawrat neighborhood, is devoid of a telephone set,
and it is now in dire need of a telephone set.
We request your kindness to approve the installation of a telephone set in the aforementioned court building
as quickly as possible.
Please accept, your Excellency, our further thanks in advance.
Head of the Community
Miscellaneous
Page 57
⟦8929⟧
15 August 946
Tabu Directorate of Baghdad Province
After greetings
Please provide us with a copy of the map for the two land plots whose location is shown on
the attached map, located in the Al-Koolat neighborhood, sequence numbers 7/27 and 230.
With much thanks in advance.
Head of the Community
⟦signature⟧
8/15
Head of the Community
Miscellaneous
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8975
19 August 1946
Excellency the Director General of Imported Funds
After greetings and respect
I attach herewith the original petition submitted by Mazli Ibrahim regarding a request
to supply her with the paper necessary to print a religious book "Menuhat Hanefesh" with my hope to grant
the request given that the copies of this religious book are out of stock in the market and it is needed
knowing that this religious book will be distributed for free.
⟦illegible⟧
Head of the Community
⟦Achievements⟧
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8999
September 1, 946
Excellency, Director General of Imported Goods, the Respected
After greetings
We kindly ask you to supply us with three reams of cut paper or its equivalent
of half-cut paper available at the shop of Messrs. Hasso Brothers in Baghdad, and that
is for the purpose of printing various forms for the presidency of the community in Baghdad. We give you
much thanks in advance.
⟦illegible⟧
9/2
Head of the Community
Miscellaneous
Page 63
solutions to this problem
I said that I do not work in politics, and it seems to me that I have elaborated
in giving my opinions and I am not ready to go
Chairman of the Committee: We thank you very much
A member of the Committee: It appears that you, Father, have many expenses, but
your salaries are limited, so how do you manage your living? - and he prevents him from continuing about the schools problem
⟦illegible⟧
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9086
21/10/946
⟦Copy to the Department⟧
His Excellency the General Manager of Imported Goods
After greetings and respect.
We request your Excellency to kindly provide the head of the Jewish community and the members of the Jewish Spiritual Council
with the ⟦necessary⟧ winter suits that your respected directorate is distributing to the spiritual leaders whose names
and signatures appear below.
Please accept, your Excellency, the expressions of our highest gratitude and respect.
Position | Name | Signature
Head of the Community | Rabbi Sassoon Khedhouri | Sassoon
President of the Jewish Religious Court of Cassation | Rabbi Raphael Isaac Hayyim |
Member of the Court of Cassation | Rabbi Shua Moshe Heskel |
Member of the Court of Cassation | Rabbi Elia Yehoshua |
Member of the Court of Cassation | Rabbi Daoud Ezra Musfi |
Member of the Court of Cassation | Rabbi Daoud Shaoul Shamash |
President of the Religious Court | Rabbi Salman Hoki |
Member of the Religious Court | Rabbi Sassoon Ezra Ishaq |
Member of the Religious Court | Rabbi Yusuf Eliya Rabia |
Additional Member | Rabbi Moshe Ibrahim |
Secretary of the Community Administration and the Court of Cassation | ⟦Mr. Salim Ward Ibada⟧ | Salim
⟦illegible⟧ | ⟦Salim Rabia⟧ |
Sassoon
Head of the Community
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Period 11/25/56
Iraqi Government
Baghdad Customs and Excise Department
No. 1779 / TN
Appraisal Section
Date 10/10/1946
Subject: Declaration No. 1332 / 1 Basra dated 7/6/1946
Audit Assistant
In the Directorate General of Customs and Excise
Reference your letter No. 8357 dated 9/14/1946.
We confirm the validity of your objection and will refund the overpaid fee amounting to 101 Fils
to the importer upon receipt of an official request from him in accordance with the procedures.
Director of Baghdad Customs and Excise
A copy for information to -
His Eminence Rabbi Sassoon Khedouri.
Head of the Israelite Community
No. 917
Date ⟦1⟧4 / 10 / 1946
Miscellaneous
⟦illegible⟧
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- 2 -
12 Isaac Bros Sons & Co.
84, Major Street,
MANCHESTER. +
13 SAMUEL J. SHASHOUA,
14, Rue Champollion,
ALEXANDRIA
Egypt. +
14 S. Gourji,
56, Rue de Courcelles,
PARIS,
France.
15 Mrs. Flora Sulman Sassoon,
C/o Messrs. David Sassoon & Co. Ltd.,
LONDON. <del>32 Brutus street</del>
Mr David Sassoon
32 Brutus street
London W 1
David Sassoon Esq.
32 Brutus street
Berkly Square
London
W.1
England
£ 20 16 Messrs. J.M. Shasha & Co.
{ Bridgewater House,
58, Whitworth St.
MANCHESTER, 1,
England.
17 Monsieur S.E. Shahmoon,
50, Rue Bassano,
PARIS.
France.
18 Sir David Ezra,
3, Kyd Street,
CALCUTTA,
India.
19 D.E. Horesh, Esq., X
44/46 Leadenhall, St.,
LONDON, E.C.3.
England.
20 Messrs. Sassoon J. David & Co. Ltd.,
143, Esplanade Road,
Fort,
BOMBAY.
21 Mr. Ezra A. Sopher,
71, Canning Street,
CALCUTTA. X
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- 3 -
£ 1 | 22 | Mr. Mayer Moshe Mayer
P.O. Box No.1,
JAFFA.
| 23 | Yehouda Heskel,
2, Mount Street,
MANCHESTER. +
| 24 | Mr. Joseph A. Abdulezer,
C/o K.A. Abdulezer,
Causeway House,
7, Colaba Causeway,
BOMBAY.
| 25 | Eskel Hayim, Esq.,
Mayo House,
Cooperage Road,
Fort,
BOMBAY.
| 26 | J.H.E. Obadiah, Esq.,
Waterloo Mansions,
- 2nd Floor No. 11,
Fort,
BOMBAY.
£ 3.15 | 27 | G.N. Masri, Esq.,
P.O. Box 576,
BOMBAY.
| 28 | M.A. Shashoua, Esq.,
Asia House,
82, Princess St.
MANCHESTER
England. X
£ 15 | 29 | J.S. Shashoua, Esq.,
Bowen House,
Lansdowne Road,
Apollo Bunder,
BOMBAY.
| 30 | Mr. E.E.E. Sassoon,
3, Fazel Road,
Colaba,
BOMBAY.
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⟦31⟧ Mr. Jacob E.E.E. Sassoon,
3, Fazel Road,
Colaba,
BOMBAY.
⟦32⟧ Mr. G.H. Hillel,
Donald House, Barrow Road,
Apollo Bunder,
BOMBAY.
⟦33⟧ Mr. S.S. Gourgey,
20 Abubaker Mansions,
Opposite Hotel Majestic,
Fort,
BOMBAY.
⟦34⟧ Mr. N.R. Peress,
2-39 Kamal Mansions,
Arthur Bunder Road,
Colaba,
BOMBAY.
⟦Albert⟧
Mr. S.H. Eskell,
Central Box No. 11678,
LAUSANNE
(Switzerland).
36 - A. S. Shooker Esq
1 Oxley Road
Singapore
S. S.
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Mutasarrifate of Baghdad Liwa
Editing Bureau
Number / 19250
Date 20 / 10 / 1946
To the Virtue of the Judge of the Sunni Sharia Court, Respectable
" " " Ja'fari " "
His Beatitude the Patriarch of the Chaldean Community, Respectable
His Eminence the Head of the Jewish Community "
His Eminence the Bishop of the Syrian Catholics "
" " Armenians "
" " Orthodox "
Subject / Nomination of a member for the Baghdad Liwa Administrative Council
In view of the death of Mr. Khedhouri Shukur, member of the Baghdad Liwa Administrative Council, and the resignation of Mr.
Khedhouri Lawee, who follows him in the current elections from the mentioned membership, we request your presence
in the office of this Mutasarrifate at 10:00 AM on the morning of Thursday, corresponding to
24 / 10 / 1946 to nominate the necessary number of persons in accordance with the wording of Article (47) of
the Liwa Administration Law No. 16 of 1945.
⟦signature⟧
Mutasarrif of Baghdad Liwa
Copy to -
Director of Liwa Revenues }
Director of Baghdad Liwa Land Registry } for the same purpose
Director of Liwa Editing }
File
⟦signature⟧
The Mukhtar
⟦illegible⟧
⟦For filing⟧
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Ministry of Supply
Imported Materials Department
Tires and Cars
Number / ⟦line⟧
Date / ⟦line⟧
To -
Presidency of the Jewish Community.
Subject - Batteries.
Reference to your letter dated 10/9/1946, the
control over batteries has been lifted and their sale has become free in the markets without a permit.
Minister of Supply.
H. S. / 30
⟦illegible⟧
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BRITISH EMBASSY,
BAGDAD.
6th, February, 1946.
To
The Secretary
to H. G. the Chief Rabi
in Bagdad.
Dear Sir,
The bearer Nahum ibn Abraham
states that the marriage paper issued to
him by late Mualim Murdochai is not being
accepted by the Census Dept, as it not been
signed by the the Cheif Rabi, will you
therefore please help him by counter
signing the papers in qustion so that
he can get the Nationality or Jinsiyah
papers made for his newly born child.
Yours faithfully
⟦illegible⟧
Dragoman
British Embassy, Bagdad.
BRITISH EMBASSY
6 FEB 1946
BAGDAD
⟦Nahum⟧
⟦Ibrahim⟧
⟦6/2⟧
⟦Requirements⟧
⟦BRITISH EMBASSY BAGDAD⟧