Description
These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. They include correspondence from the President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad to Jewish community presidents in Sulaymaniyah, Irbil, Mosul, Basrah, Kirkuk, Fallujah, regarding condolences, regulations, hospitals, permits, religious dietary laws, smallpox, distributions to the poor, employment and unemployment, financial settlements, legal settlements, charitable donations and requests for documentation. There is also correspondence with various government and community organizations including the Office of Information – Mosul; National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha’is of Iraq; The British Bank of Iran; Office of the Haham of the Spanish and Portuguese Jews of Great Britain; Chevrolet; Iraqi Red Crescent Society; The Society for Improving the Conditions of the Blind in Iraq; French Ambassador in Iraq; The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China; The Great Synagogue of Baghdad; and the President of the Catholic Diaspora. The item also includes the newspapers: الزمان (Al-Zamān), Issue #4764 from May 1, 1953; and الحوادث (Al-Ḥawādth), Issue #3096 from 1953.
AI English Translation, Pages 201-225
Iraqi Government
Ministry of Justice
Legal Drafting Bureau
Number: L / 961
Date: 12 / 2 / 1951
Subject: Whoever submitted a request to renounce citizenship shall not
be a member of the Lay Council
52
Presidency of the Jewish Community in Basra
Your letter No. 51/81 dated 4 / 2 / 1951
1- There is nothing in the law that prevents the head of the community from dismissing individuals, and therefore every ⟦...⟧
members of the community are responsible for their actions regarding the matter of renouncing citizenship.
Since the community member submitted a request for renunciation, he may not be elected given the possibility
of a decision being issued by the Council of Ministers
Signature
Minister of Justice
True Copy
President of the Jewish Community in Basra
⟦illegible⟧
* PRESIDENT OF THE JEWISH ⟦...⟧
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Basra
Telephone Number: 395/5
Number: ⟦152⟧ / 51
Date: ⟦20 / 5 / 51⟧
PRESIDENT OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
BASRAH (Iraq)
Telephone No. 05-395
No :
Date :
True Copy
52
To the Honorable Ministry of Interior
Reference to the letter of the Administrative Inspection Presidency No. L 737 dated ⟦1 / 5 / 51⟧
Based on our inquiry in our letter No. 92 on ⟦15 / 4 / 51⟧, we submit to your esteemed Ministry that there appear to be
difficulties of confusion regarding the authorization of states' charters concerning deportation operations from signing
transport contracts and carrying out exchanges and assisting government agencies in maintaining security and facilities for immigrants and preparing them
and sending them to the airport, examining them, and supervising them, however, there are duties and actions that constitute
instead, these actions fall within the functions of the Lay Council or the functions of the Head of the Community by virtue of the Royal Decree
granting the community Decree No. 77 of 1931 AD as he is the official representative of the community, the legal advisor that
official departments consider the Head of the Community to be the official entity to be contacted and requested to complete everything
that is done, especially the affairs of the poor among the members of the community.
With highest respect to your Excellency
Signature
President of the Jewish Community in Basra
True Copy
Presidency of the Jewish Community in Basra
⟦illegible signature⟧
True Copy
PRESIDENT OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY
Iraqi Government
Ministry of Justice
Personnel Affairs Division
54
Date: 15 / 3 / 1951
Ministry of Justice Order No.: 348
Based on the requirements of the public interest and the issuance of Royal Decree No. 155 dated 4 / 3 / 951, and since
the reasons upon which the establishment of the Mosaic Sectarian Court in Mosul was based, pursuant to Articles Two and Six
of the Law for the Organization of Religious Courts for Christian and Mosaic Sects No. 32 of 1947, have ceased to exist, we have therefore decided
to abolish the aforementioned court and exempt its president and its original and alternate Mosaic members pursuant to the Royal Decree
No. 12 dated 3 / 1 / 951, whose names are listed below, effective from the date of their separation on 4 / 3 / 951 ⟦illegible⟧
and to cut the allowances granted to them as of the date of their separation indicated above.
President | Rabbi Salhoun Barzani
Original Member | Rabbi Yahya Rahim
" | Ezra Moshe
Alternate | Yahya Rubin
" | Abboud Ibrahim
Minister of Justice
A copy to:-
Presidency of the Council of Ministers Diwan
All Ministries
Comptroller General
Presidency of the Court of Cassation of Iraq
Presidency of the Committee for Judges and Magistrates Affairs
Judicial Inspection Department
Directorate of General Accounts - with sufficient copies of the Royal Decree
Presidents of Courts of Appeal and all Judicial Districts
Directorate of General Propaganda - requesting its publication in the Official Gazette.
Presidency of the Israelite Community in Baghdad
Mosaic Court of Cassation in Baghdad
Central Treasury Directorate
Accounts Auditor
Treasury Directorate of Mosul Province
Accounting of Civil Courts in Mosul
Presidency of the Israelite Community
No. 57/1295
Date 18 / 2 / 1952
Fuad Mur
Directorate of Education of Mosul Province
Personnel
Number / 257 / 1052
Date - 6 / 1 / 1951
249
8 / 1 / 1951
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To - Administration of Lawrence Huzoor Private Primary School
In accordance with what was stated in the Ministry of Education's letter No. 665 dated 6 / 1 / 1951
Since the teachers Sassoon Benjamin and Munshi Daoud Hayyim have registered for the revocation of their Iraqi citizenship
as we were informed by the Police Directorate, therefore please dismiss them from the school immediately.
⟦signature⟧
Director of Education of Mosul Province
A copy of it to -
Ministry of Education - Private Primary Education - for your kind information
The Inspector Mr. Mahmoud Al-Bumard - for information
Tawaf Al-Iraq
M / D 25 / 1
The Committee Supervising the Management of Affairs
of the Israelite Community
Number 4
Date 12 / 10 / 1951
52
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To the Directorate of Education of Mosul Province
Your letter numbered 2127 and dated 12 / 10 / 1951
regarding the requests of teachers who applied for the revocation of their Iraqi citizenship,
since the school year is in its midpoint, so that work can be done to ⟦find⟧ teachers to fill the vacancies
that will occur after their separation due to the lack of graduates from preparatory studies who did not request
the revocation of citizenship from them.
Especially since the teachers mentioned in your letter above are among the best teachers according to the testimony of the inspectors
and they also constitute the entire staff of the school, so their separation from teaching means closing the school and leaving
more than two hundred male and female students without study for the official schools to absorb them at such a time of
the year. Therefore, we hope you will kindly approve the stay of the teachers mentioned above, especially since the decision of the Council of Ministers
to revoke Iraqi citizenship from them has not yet been issued. This
and please accept our highest respect
Naji Hammo Saleh Saleh Salman Haroun
The Committee Supervising the Management of Affairs of the Israelite Community
18575
Directorate of Education of Mosul Province
Personnel
Number: 3 /
Date: 1 / 1 / 1951
To - Administration of the Lawrence Kadoorie Private Primary School
In accordance with what was stated in the Ministry of Education's letter No. 665 dated 6 / 1 / 1951, as the teachers whose names are listed
below have requested the revocation of their citizenship according to what the Police Directorate informed us. Therefore, please dismiss them from the school
immediately.
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Director of Education of Mosul Province
Teachers - Mordechai Ibrahim. Younis Moshe. Eliyahu Shaul. Zaki Benjamin. Albert Daoud. Masir Shaul.
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A copy of it to - ⟦illegible⟧
Ministry of Education - Private Secondary Education - Reference to its letter mentioned above
Inspector Mr. Mahmoud Al-Jomard - For information and to visit the school and inform us of your opinion regarding its closure
No
Number / 7850
Date / 10 / 2 / 1952
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⟦General Directorate of Primary Education⟧
⟦To the Honorable Haham Bashi⟧
⟦Baghdad⟧
⟦Greetings⟧
⟦Your letter numbered 624 and dated ⟦...⟧⟧
⟦On 27 / 2 / 1952⟧
⟦Exemption from school fees has been granted to the students whose names are shown in the attached list⟧
⟦As considering their family situation, it was decided to exempt them from the prescribed school fees⟧
⟦For this school year ⟦...⟧ hoping to inform them of this so that they can continue their studies⟧
⟦And take a copy of this decision when visiting the concerned school to approve the delivery of books⟧
⟦The textbooks prescribed for them by the school administration and the acquisition of other school supplies⟧
⟦We invite you to inform us of the final result to provide you with all the documents requested by the school⟧
⟦In case the students mentioned above do not visit⟧
Printed in original
Iraqi Ministry of Education
Baghdad
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General Directorate of Primary Education
(Private and Foreign Education)
Number - 7850
Date - 7 / 3 / 1951
Dismissal of teachers whose
citizenship has been revoked
To -
Directorate of Education of Mosul Province
Your letters numbered 462, 1053, and 1157 dated 13 / 1 and 27 and 28 / 2 / 1951.
We have no objection to the continuation of teachers who have submitted requests to revoke their Iraqi citizenship
from teaching at the Laura Kadoorie Private Primary School until the end of this
academic year, requesting that the necessary measures be taken and to dismiss every teacher for whom the Council of Ministers has approved the revocation of
Iraqi citizenship and to appoint another teacher in their place from among those who meet the required conditions and to write to
the Provincial Police Directorate to inform you of the names of the teachers for whom the Council of Ministers' approval for the revocation of
citizenship has been completed in order to apply what was mentioned above regarding them and to inform us.
Signature / Minister of Education
per gram.
4 - a - Enumerate the characteristics of images formed by a plane mirror.
b - Draw an image of an object located in front of a convex mirror.
c - Draw an image of an object located between a converging lens and its focus.
5 - Explain the method of magnetization by electric current and state the relationship between voltage, current, and resistance.
What is the resistance of a conductor with a potential difference of 12 volts across its terminals and a current intensity of 0.25 amperes passing through it.
Chemistry
Answer three questions, provided that the first question is among them.
1 - Show one method used in the laboratory to prepare four of the following substances. And state how
gases and vapors are collected when they are emitted.
Hydrogen chloride gas, ammonia gas, methane gas, carbon dioxide
gas, chlorine gas.
2 - Talk about water hardness. Its causes, its harms, and methods of removing it (showing the reactions with equations).
3 - Discuss the reasons for the following:
a - "The civilization of nations is measured by the amount of sulfuric acid consumed in their countries."
b - Hydrogen cannot be prepared from the reaction of zinc with nitric acid.
c - Galvanizing iron sheets (Gatco) used in covering roofs or in
reinforcing dams.
4 - Answer the following:-
a - How does the reaction of manganese dioxide in the preparation of oxygen from
potassium chlorate differ from its reaction in the preparation of chlorine.
b - If you were given a substance, what would you do to verify whether it is albuminous or starchy.
c - What is superphosphate, and how is it prepared.
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Department Copy
T / 51 / 1762
12 / 3 / 1951
To -
Presidency of the Israelite Community
Mosul
Greetings,
As per your request, we have consulted the venerable Ministry of Education, which in turn issued its letter
Numbered 7850 and dated 7 / 3 / 1951 (you will find a copy attached) with a signed testimony
From the Directorate of Private Education therein regarding the matter (you will also find it attached).
Please accept our highest respect;
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Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
Attachments
(2) Copy of letter No. 7850 and the testimony
T / ⟦78⟧ / 51
⟦17⟧ / 3 / 1951
Department Copy
To
The Respected Mr. Ephraim Rahmin Kashi
Greetings,
Reference to your letter dated 14 / 3 / 951.
On the occasion of your leaving the administration of the community in Amarah, we can only thank you very much for your supervision
over its affairs.
We have assigned Mr. Moshe Ephraim Cohen to carry out this task.
Please accept our highest respect.
⟦signature⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
Karaite Communities
⟦illegible⟧
- Ephraim Rahmin Kashi - Al-Amara
We have authorized you to sell the furniture of the synagogue located in Al-Amara.
⟦signature⟧
Acting President of the Community
President of the Israelite Community - Baghdad
⟦77⟧ / 51
3 / ⟦2⟧ / 1951
⟦22⟧
To
Mr. Moshe Ephraim Cohen, Respectfully
Amara
After greetings
Based on our reliance on you and in view of the vacancy of the community presidency in Amara at the present time
we have assigned you to supervise the affairs of the community and its properties in Amara, including the synagogue
and the school. We request that you provide us with a list containing the properties belonging to this community, mentioning
their monthly or annual revenues.
Please accept our highest respect.
⟦illegible⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
815/7/7/8
1/5/1/16
22
Number
To the Honorable President of the Jewish Community
In Baghdad
Greetings and respect,
On the occasion of your election as President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad, we are pleased to send to you,
on our behalf and on behalf of the Jewish Community Committee in Basra, our warmest congratulations and sincerest
wishes, wishing you success and prosperity in your lofty mission to serve the community
and its members.
Please accept our highest respect.
President of the Jewish Community Committee
In Basra
Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Amarah
Subject:
Number: -
Date: 24 / 2 / 1951
Honorable President of the Jewish Community ⟦in Baghdad⟧,
After greetings,
Due to my inability to carry out the duties of the Jewish community in Amarah
in view of the revocation of my Iraqi citizenship, I request you to kindly accept my resignation from this
position. Since I wish to leave Amarah soon, and our reliance is on Mr. Hashi Ephraim
Cohen, and since his Iraqi citizenship has not been revoked, I request you to kindly instruct
the handover of the community's accounts, funds, official books, and everything related to community affairs
and the management of our dear master's properties, and authorizing him to issue receipts for property rents and manage
them as time requires, and to send a copy of the authorization letter to His Excellency
the Governor of the Amarah Province for information. Finally, with highest respect ⟦...⟧
Acting
for the Jewish Community in Amarah
Ephraim Hanin Hashi
Presidency of the Jewish Community
T / 202 / 51
20 / 2 / 1951
⟦illegible stamp with signature and date 25/2/51⟧
Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Amarah
Subject:
Number -
Date - 14 / 2 / 1951
The Honorable President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
After greetings
I request your kind approval to authorize Mr. Munshi Ephraim Cohen ⟦pursuant to⟧ your consent
to take over the affairs of the Jewish community in Amarah by receiving the rent of the school leased
to the Directorate of Education of the Amarah Province under the name Al-Khansa School for Girls at an annual rent
of twenty Dinars starting from 1/4/951 until 31/3/952 for a full year and according to
disbursement order No. ⟦...⟧ in the amount of twenty-two Dinars and as per the request of the Directorate of Education
of the Amarah Province to hand over the rent to Mr. Munshi Ephraim Cohen instead of Mr. Ephraim Haboush Bashi
the former acting head of the Jewish community, and the appointment of Mr. Munshi Ephraim Cohen to carry out
the affairs of the Jewish community in Amarah. Finally, with highest respect.
Acting Head
of the Jewish Community in Amarah
Ephraim Haboush Bashi
Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
No. 51/120/T
Date 20 / 2 / 1951
Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Amarah
⟦illegible signature⟧
T / 51/1728
14/3/1951
⟦line⟧
To --
The Honorable Mr. Yaqub Munshi Khamara
Head of the Jewish Community in Basra
After greetings,
I have reviewed your letter numbered ( - ) and dated ⟦8/2/1951⟧
While we regret the assault that occurred against you, we are striving to prepare
the necessary means to assist you, and success is from God.
Please accept the highest respect;
⟦signature⟧
Acting Head of the Community
Head of the Lay Council
Noble Incidents
Ibrahim / 11
Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number { 3531
5452
Number: 51/1/68
Date: 1/1/1951
Subject:
Announcement
The Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad announces its need for a person to reside in the Synagogue of Our Master Al-Aziz to be in charge
of the matters required by this temple, noting that the salary will be according to the agreement with it. Whoever finds in themselves
the readiness to perform this job should contact this Presidency.
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Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number { 3531
5452
Number :: 1807/51
Date :: 7/8/1951
69
Subject:
Announcement
To
All members of the Jewish community who have not had their Iraqi citizenship revoked
The Presidency of the Community announces its need for a number of persons to be trained to perform the religious matters listed
below, and after completing the training period, they will be appointed to perform these duties
Type of Job
1 - Sheep slaughterers (Shochtim)
2 - Chicken slaughterers (Shochtim)
3 - Mohelim (Those who perform circumcision)
Those who find in themselves the necessary ability and competence to perform these duties should contact the Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
⟦signature⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
⟦illegible⟧ Department
7
51 / 1824
18 / 4 / 1951
Presidency of the Jewish Community in Basra
After greetings,
We request that you provide us with a certificate proving that Mr. Moshe Hai Agha Baba died in Basra in
the year 1945. We hope to receive the answer as soon as possible.
Please accept our highest respect.
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Acting Head of the Community
Head of the Lay Council
A
Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Amarah
Subject:
Number -
Date - 1/22/1951
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
File No. T / ⟦144⟧ / 57
Date 1/27/51
To the Honorable President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
After greetings
Enclosed with this letter of ours, you will find a paper signed by the people of Amarah and certified by
us, including the certification of marriages and divorces, old and new, for a number of persons in the name of
Kashi, a request for the expenses spent on the poor of Amarah, and the remaining dirhams to be spent on the shelters
in your community. In conclusion, with highest respect.
Acting
Head of the Jewish Community in Amarah
Ephraim Habib Kashi
Inform us
of what must be done in this beginning as in
⟦...⟧
1/22/1951
In Amara
Subject:
Number -
Date 10 / 1 / 1951
To the Honorable President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
After greetings and respect
We, the undersigned residents of Amara
Regarding the lists sent to Baghdad to the committee in charge of the affairs of the Jewish community in Amara, Mr. ⟦Edward⟧
Hussein Kashi, pertaining to the ⟦districts⟧ of Amara, please certify them and disburse the amounts to the deserving poor of Amara
on the occasion of the two holidays only. In closing, please accept our highest respect.
Isaac Yehuda
Yosef Moallem Yaqub
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Ibrahim Shaul
Yosef Cohen
Salman Al-Hindi
Shaul Levi Mansour
Salim Ibrahim Shaul
⟦Yehuda⟧ Saleh Loui
Shaul Zion Levi
Saleh Ezra Loui
Hassim Ibrahim Hassim
Munshi Yosef
Ezra Ayed
Habib Ayed Cohen
Naji Salman
Mazal Ayed
I certify the signatures listed above for the persons remaining in Amara. Please do what is necessary to certify the lists and pay the money that
was spent in Baghdad for the poor of Amara to the person Rahmin Kashi, and if anything remains from the cost of their certification,
then spend it on the shelters in your area. With further respect,
Administrative Committee for the Assets of the Jewish Community in Amara
JEWISH COMMUNITY - AMARA
⟦signature⟧
Baghdad
To the presence of the Head of the Jewish Community ⟦...⟧
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Iraqi Post
2 FILS
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