AI en Translation, Pages 151-175
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always the subject of gratitude from specialists and at the forefront of the winning schools in the general examinations
Accordingly, I hope your Excellency will be so kind as to reconsider your discussed decisions and decide to disburse the aid
to the Shamash School and to the other schools as usual,
⟦illegible signature⟧
President of the Lay Council
L.H.
A copy of it to the esteemed Ministry of Education
⟦illegible bleed-through text from reverse side⟧
282
1561 on 6 August 956, supplement to 66
President of the Courts of Appeal
Upon reviewing the lawsuit
After scrutiny, it was found that the Court of First Instance issued a judgment in absentia obliging the defendant (Abbas)
to pay the plaintiff the sum of one hundred and eighty-two dinars and seven hundred and eighty-five fils with interest, fees,
expenses, and attorney fees. Due to the defendant's dissatisfaction with the aforementioned judgment, he appealed it in cassation and requested its revocation for the reasons
stated in his cassation brief.
Upon scrutiny and deliberation, it was found that the Court of First Instance issued a judgment in absentia in lawsuit No. 677 / 955 obliging
the defendant (Abbas) to pay the plaintiff the amount of 182 dinars and 785 fils, fees, expenses, and attorney fees. Upon the defendant's objection
to the aforementioned judgment, the said court decided to reject the objection and uphold the contested judgment. Upon the cassation of this decision by
the defendant, the Court of Cassation decided in its decision No. ⟦17⟧ / Civil / 956 to overturn the aforementioned judgment for the reasons contained therein,
as the defendant had contested the lawsuit by stating that he had paid the claimed amount according to official receipts issued by the competent department
in the name of the plaintiff and in his name on his behalf, and the court did not notice that, did not examine the mentioned receipts, and did not hear the defendant's statement
regarding them. Based on this cassation decision, the court proceeded with the lawsuit anew, and after hearing the defendant's statement
and the statement of the witness (Abbas), the court decided on 21 / 6 / 956 to reject the defendant's objection and uphold the judgment in absentia issued against him
for lack of proof of his payment. The court did not notice that the receipts presented in the lawsuit are official receipts issued by the competent department
in the name of the plaintiff and the defendant, and the court did not notice or scrutinize the mentioned receipts and did not hear the defendant's statement
regarding them. Based on this cassation decision, the court proceeded with the lawsuit anew, and after hearing the defendant's statement
and the statement of the witness (Abbas), the court decided on 21 / 6 / 956 to reject the defendant's objection and uphold the judgment in absentia issued against him
for lack of proof of his payment. The court did not notice that the receipts presented in the lawsuit are official receipts issued by the competent department
in the name of the plaintiff and the defendant, and the court did not notice or scrutinize the mentioned receipts and did not hear the defendant's statement
regarding them. Based on this cassation decision, the court proceeded with the lawsuit anew, and after hearing the defendant's statement
and the statement of the witness (Abbas), the court decided on 21 / 6 / 956 to reject the defendant's objection and uphold the judgment in absentia issued against him
for lack of proof of his payment. The court did not notice that the receipts presented in the lawsuit are official receipts issued by the competent department
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3 Rabi' al-Awwal 354 and 24 June 935
His Excellency the Minister of Education, the respected
After greetings and respect
I wish to refer to my oral conversation and the conversation of the President of the Lay Council
with Your Excellency, seizing the opportunity of the approaching end of the school year to bring to Your Excellency's attention
that most of the neighborhoods inhabited by Israeli residents are devoid of a formal school to which
the children of the residents of the aforementioned neighborhoods can belong, as it is not hidden from Your Excellency that the community's schools have become overcrowded
with students in a way that no space remains to accept all those seeking enrollment. This is on one hand, and on
the other hand, the financial situation of the community does not allow for the opening of new schools to accommodate
the aforementioned students. Since the official schools are far from the residential areas of the Israelis,
which makes sending their children to them difficult, we hope you will kindly study the issue and take
my representations into consideration and open several schools for males and females in the neighborhoods in question
to satisfy the needs of the children of these neighborhoods, just like other residents of other neighborhoods.
With respect to Your Excellency
On behalf of
⟦Sassoon⟧
Head of the Community
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2249
5 June 935
His Excellency the Minister of Education, the Respected
Greetings and respect,
I wish to refer to our oral conversation, between myself and the President of the Lay Council, with Your Excellency,
as well as the letter from the President of the Lay Council No. 2810 dated 22 Dhu al-Qi'dah 353 and 26 February
935 to the Baghdad Education Directorate, with a copy to your esteemed Ministry, in which he requested a reconsideration
of the decisions taken to reduce the financial aid provided by the Ministry to our schools, and to decide on the payment
of aid to the Shamash School and other schools as usual, with firm hope that Your Excellency will kindly
take the necessary steps to fulfill our statement ⟦...⟧
On behalf of
The Head of the Community
A copy to the Baghdad Education Directorate
⟦...⟧
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Incoming
569 N L ⟦...⟧ on 26 Rail 12 and P 6
Summary of the telegram issued from Rome
And to all parts of the Arab world
These issues and the unrest they cause throughout the Arab world and what is happening now in Palestine
Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq prove that there is no way out before the current Arab situation is reconsidered, and ignoring it is
what led to this unfortunate result that we see today in Palestine, not because the issue is a matter of trusts, but a matter that arose to
be exploited by a powerful country for private interests. England, France, and America had promised guarantees to the Arab nations to begin
a national renaissance in these countries. However, England and France did not do that, but rather stood in the face of the national desires and aspirations of the Arabs
while Germany and Italy rose and supported this desire with all sincerity, not as England did, which declared that it had no desire to expand
its influence, yet it seized every spot of Arab land, while Germany did not ask for anything for itself, except that England
exploits these existing conditions in our country for its own benefit, and it does not care if wars break out in these countries, and people do not care if
none of these promises and guarantees are implemented because history teaches us that peoples who rise up and struggle must ultimately triumph
The Arab nations have begun to rise again and will obtain their rights in these periods of history to begin the life of the renaissance
And to all parts of the Arab world
⟦...⟧
Arabic Press Department
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Not to be distributed
562 N Committee 5
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⟦illegible⟧
To the Honorable Respected School Director
Greetings and respect, thereafter:
With reference to your letter numbered 562 and dated November 26, 1948, and to the meeting that took place
between us in the school building last Tuesday, and to what was agreed upon in that meeting
regarding the seizure of the school building by the military authorities pursuant to Article 562
of the Baghdad Penal Code, and accordingly, it has been decided to occupy the mentioned building by us
starting from this date, requesting you to inform us of your desire to vacate the mentioned building as quickly
as possible so that we may begin occupying it.
Please accept the assurances of our highest respect.
Commander of the Military Force
A copy to the Directorate of Education
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⟦Number / 851⟧
⟦Date 29 Rabi' al-Awwal 60⟧
⟦17 June 941⟧
2879 A
17 June 941
Secret and Very Urgent
Directorate of Shamash School
We have understood that the teacher Sabri Effendi al-Dhuwaibi, when he learned of the arrival of two letters from the Directorate of Education
requesting the return of the two students Salim Dangour and Edward Shohet to your school, uttered words of contempt against
the community and threatened to close the school and vowed by saying (either I am in the school or these students).
We have also learned that this is not the first time that the aforementioned teacher has uttered such
contempt or threats towards the community or the school; therefore, you must conduct the necessary investigations
urgently and inform us fully about the truth of this news and how it occurred in detail, and about the measures that
you have taken against the aforementioned teacher.
⟦Salman Shina⟧
The President
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⟦illegible⟧
2248
13 June 935
Regarding instructions on how to extract the average
of annual grades
His Excellency the Director General of Education, the Respected
After greetings and respect
I request you to kindly inform me about how the amendment to the General Examinations
System No. 14 of the year 31, No. 21 of the year 935, applies to private school students;
On behalf of
The Head of the Community
⟦illegible stamp⟧
D. M. M.
M. M. K. W. L. H.
To the Presidency of the Council of Ministers
Via the Ministry of Interior
The Mosaic community in Iraq has been and remains loyal to its homeland and at the forefront of those striving to serve it in various
ways, particularly in the economic, financial, and social fields. The community has proven in all eras the integrity of
its intentions and its complete sincerity (as history bears witness). Individual incidents that occur cannot be used to judge
the morality of the community and its general inclinations. Accordingly, we hope that the esteemed government will take the necessary measures to repel
the assaults that occasionally occur against some members of the community by some ignorant people or those with bad intentions,
and to ensure that the members of the community continue to enjoy their national rights as Iraqi citizens loyal to their country like the rest of
the Iraqi citizens from all other communities.
Signature
Head of the Community
⟦illegible faint text at top and bottom⟧
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Iraq
Ministry of Education
Student Affairs and Missions Division
Number: 7027
Date: 30 Rabi' al-Awwal 354 / 1 July 35
Subject: Regarding ⟦inquiry⟧ about how to calculate the school grade average
To His Eminence, the Head of the Jewish Community, Respected
In response to your letter numbered 3248 and dated 6/13/35.
The amendment of the general examination system does not affect private schools as they are still
treated as they were previously.
Director General of Education
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Incoming Number 2624
Date 26 / 7 / 935
Register
A. Q.
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Directorate
Education of Baghdad District
Number 2/11/2490
Date 24 / 4 / 54
25 / 7 / 935
Subject
To the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
We request you to consider the matter of appointing Iraqis to teaching positions in your private schools and to favor them over
foreigners when appointing teachers at the beginning of the next school year, as Iraqis have more right
to appointment and employment than foreigners.
⟦illegible⟧
Director of Baghdad Education
A copy of it to -
Directorate of General Education
For information
The private file
Decision
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The National School
WATANIYAH SCHOOL
Baghdad on 21 / 5 / 1936
Baghdad 193
My dear Shalom Effendi
Enclosed you will find a copy of the letter from the Baghdad
Directorate of Education regarding the school grant. We
kindly ask you to return it upon ⟦...⟧ the end of your need
for it. Thank you, your brother
The Sincere
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Directorate
Baghdad Education District
Number 16/6/ 4922
Date 7/12/ 1354
29/2/ 1936
Subject
S / To the Director of Rachel Shahmoon School
The National School
With reference to the letter submitted by you regarding financial grants, we inform you that the Directorate
of General Education has informed us that since the distributions for this year have ended, it will be considered
in your case when making distributions in the next fiscal year
(Jassim Al-Adhami)
Acting Director of Baghdad Education District
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July 23, 1936
His Excellency the Director General of Education, Respected
After greetings and respect
Reference to your letter No. 3509/5/1 dated February 27, 1936
On the occasion of the end of the school year, I hope to remind Your Excellency of what you promised
our school regarding the reconsideration of the matter of financial aid for our schools in the coming year
And on the occasion of the approaching submission of the education budget, I have firm hope that Your Excellency will take into consideration
the facts that we presented in our letter dated 2/23/1936 to Your Excellency;
Director of Alliance Schools
⟦illegible⟧
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Directorate
Baghdad Education District
Number 16/6 / 2922
Date 7 / 12 / 1354
29 / 2 / 1936
Subject ⟦line⟧
To the Director of Rachel Shahmoon School
" " The National School " "
With reference to the letter submitted by you regarding financial grants, we inform you that the General Directorate of Education
has informed us that, in view of the end of distributions for this year, your case will be considered when conducting
distributions in the next fiscal year.
⟦illegible⟧
Acting Director of Baghdad Education District
H / Sh
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Presidency of the Jewish Community - Baghdad
Presidency of the Jewish Community - Baghdad
PRESIDENT
OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY - BAGHDAD
Telephone Number 531
TELEPHONE NO. 531
Number: 2952
Date: 17 March 936
Subject Summary:
His Excellency the Director General of Education, Respected
The directorates of the Alliance, Rachel Shahmoon, and Al-Wataniya schools have sent us copies of
the letters they addressed to your respected directorate regarding the financial aid that the
Education Council decided to cut and reduce from the aforementioned schools.
I do not wish here to return to mentioning the objections submitted by these schools to
Your Excellency and demonstrating the discrepancy between the information that reached the esteemed Council and the actual situation, however
I hope to discuss these decisions from the perspective of their impact on our schools in general.
As a result of the recent decision taken by the esteemed Council to cancel the grants for the Alliance schools,
the total financial aid provided by the Ministry of Education to the schools
under our management has become only 210 Dinars, distributed as follows:
85 | for Rachel Shahmoon School
85 | for Al-Wataniya School
40 | for Masouda Salman School
210 |
And this very small amount cannot have any impact in assisting schools
whose number of students has reached 8,000 male and female students, and whose total budgets reached 19682/641
Dinars for the year 936/35, of which the Lay Council fund pays approximately half.
These exorbitant expenses incurred by our schools cost the individual of our community
the payment of heavy communal taxes, and with the existence of these massive deficits, they were and
still are weighing down the community fund in a way that has begun to harm the public interest. The financial deficit existing
at the present time amounts to 4,222 Dinars, and this deficit was the reason for the delay in teachers' salaries
in our schools for a period of three months, which caused a strike by the teachers about two weeks ago,
and no doubt the news of it has reached Your Excellency, so the Lay Council was forced to request an increase
in taxes to remedy the deficit and manage the course of affairs.
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Presidency of the Jewish Community - Baghdad
Presidency of the Jewish Community - Baghdad
PRESIDENT
OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY - BAGHDAD
Telephone Number 531
TELEPHONE NO. 531
Number:
Date:
Subject Summary:
( 2 )
It is regrettable to find that these great sacrifices borne by the community
are not met by the competent authorities with any cooperation or encouragement, and there is no better evidence for our statement
than the successive reductions that have occurred in our schools' grants year after year
and the lack of attention by the competent authorities to fulfilling any of the reasonable demands that we continue
to submit every year. There are many neighborhoods inhabited by Jews, such as Qanbar Ali, Hanoun
Al-Kabir and Al-Saghir, Albu Shibl, Dahdwana, Abi Saifayn, Obeid, Qashal, Bataween, and Orfali, where
there is no official school for their children, and despite the many promises given to us to open
schools in these neighborhoods, none of these promises have been fulfilled so far.
On the occasion of preparing the education budget, I hope you will take into consideration:
1 - The issue of allocating the necessary funds to open schools in neighborhoods inhabited by
Jewish residents and not depriving their children of primary education on the basis of establishing official
schools in the various neighborhoods of the capital in an equal manner.
2 - Reconsidering the financial aid allocated to our schools and determining it on a
new basis consistent with the scientific services these institutions have provided and continue to provide toward
public education in the country, on the principle of spending education allocations in the capital in a
fair manner, so that the children of this community benefit from something worth mentioning from those allocations
in their capacity as being no less than other taxpayers in paying them;
⟦signature⟧
President of the Community
A. M.
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Iraq
Ministry of Education
Directorate of Secondary Education
Please refer to the full number
Number 15/3 ⟦2958⟧
Date 6 Muharram 355
29 March 936
Subject ⟦line⟧
To the Presidency of the Jewish Community
Reference to your letter numbered 3653 and dated 25 March 936
We hope you note that the existing official schools are open to all communities
Furthermore, the Jewish students present in official schools in Baghdad reach one thousand
Therefore, we do not see any justification for opening official schools in addition to the existing ones as stated in paragraph
(1) of your aforementioned letter.
⟦signature⟧
On behalf of the Director General of Education
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Number 2844
Date ⟦...⟧
A. Q
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Iraq
Ministry of Education
Directorate of Secondary Education
Please refer to the full number
Number 15/3 ⟦2958⟧
Date 6 Muharram 355
29 March 936
Subject ⟦line⟧
To the Presidency of the Jewish Community
Reference to your letter numbered 3653 and dated 25 March 936
We hope you note that the existing public schools are open to all communities
Also, the Jewish students present in public schools in Baghdad reach one thousand
Therefore, we do not see any justification for opening public schools in addition to the existing ones as stated in paragraph
(1) of your aforementioned letter
On behalf of the Director General of Education
Presidency of the Jewish Community
In Baghdad
Number ⟦2844⟧
Date ⟦...⟧
A. Q
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June 2, 936
Directorate of General Education
We refer to your letter No. 3509/5/1 dated February 27, 936, addressed to the Directorate
of the Alliance, and to the letter from the Baghdad District Education Directorate to the directorates of both the Rachel
Shahmoon and Al-Wataniya schools, No. 16/6/2932 dated 2/29/936, in which you promised
the aforementioned schools to reconsider the issue of financial aid upon the arrival of the coming
year, as you were unable to consider it at the present time due to the lack of sufficient
allocations in the current year's budget.
There is no doubt that the esteemed Ministry of Education has been convinced of the fairness of the reasons presented by
the aforementioned schools to your Ministry on one hand, and on the other hand, has taken into account the considerations
in our letter No. 3653 dated March 25, 936, regarding the small total of grants provided
by your Ministry to our private schools, which does not exceed 210 Dinars annually, and that this
meager amount cannot have any impact in assisting schools whose number of students reaches
8,000 and whose total budgets for the year 35/936 reached (19,682 Dinars), of which the
Lay Council fund pays approximately half.
Added to all this is that the Lay Council, in view of the financial deficit existing in the
community fund, has not found anything to pay its employees, including teachers, for a period of three full
months, which led it to think about increasing communal taxes that burden the Israelite taxpayer
in addition to general taxes.
The great services provided by our private schools in assisting the education authorities
to spread education in the country are worthy of receiving attention and assistance from your
esteemed Ministry, especially at this time when it is difficult for the community administration to remedy the financial situation
it is suffering from.
Therefore, we have firm hope that Your Excellency will undertake to reconsider the issue of financial aid
provided by the Ministry to our schools, in view of the approaching submission of the esteemed Ministry of Education's budget.
With respect to Your Excellency.
L.H.
A.S.
Head of the Community
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Original to the Minister of Education <del>⟦illegible⟧</del>
Copy to the Prime Minister
1. Nothing was mentioned about the <del>the</del> reasons that prompted the Ministry to liquidate the royal female teachers
of this grade, even though <del>the plans</del> most schools follow the Ministry of Education curriculum
and their level and success rate are not less than the <del>level</del> grade and success of the
official schools, as is established in the Examinations Department. <del>Rather</del> And if <del>we took</del> and we nominate <del>from</del> then what
<del>deserves</del> the percentage of appreciation <del>per hundred</del> for schools <del>for schools</del> of the same level as the sect's assessment compared to the schools
2. It is possible that the fewer students mentioned in the letter of the Directorate of Secondary
Education are <del>the number</del> those present in the Ras al-Qarya and
Hadiya <del>from</del> Salih schools, along with the amount in the rest of the official schools, except
that this number is very small if it is taken into account that the Muslims
or the official sect reach about a quarter of the capital's population, and that
the sect bears the costs of educating 8,000 students, and that in the capital
there are about 50 primary schools distributed across all neighborhoods
due to the difficulty of <del>reaching</del> moving young children from their neighborhoods
to places far from them. If it were not for the non-Muslim areas, there would be only
ten neighborhoods in the capital deprived of <del>official</del> official schools
except in the part inhabited by the Musawis. And <del>this</del> the continuation of
liquidating the royal female teachers on one hand, and the large number of students who
apply for admission to schools, will force the schools <del>to allocate</del>
<del>to accept teachers who graduated from the Teachers' Training College or high school</del>
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His Excellency the Most Honorable Prime Minister
Your Excellency
We are the students who were previously accepted by the Ministry of Economy and Transportation into the School of Engineering,
and that acceptance was officially announced in the local newspapers. We submit this petition to Your Excellency's attention so that you may look
into the injustice that has recently befallen us.
We approached the school administration at the beginning of this month to start our lessons, and at that time we were surprised
by news we never dreamed of. We were informed that the school cannot accommodate more than thirty students,
so we were dismissed from the school and returned to our homes in despair, completely ignorant of the reasons necessitating
our rejection after we had been finally accepted. This is especially so since we saw the opposite of what we heard, as the school's inability to accommodate
more than thirty students, as claimed by the director, was not a real reason for our rejection. We saw the school accepting
two new students, and its doors remain open to accept other students, even if their academic grades are much lower
than our grades recorded in the school administration's registers. What then is the reason, Your Excellency? Is it possible
for us to attribute this to the fact that we are Israelites, since all the rejected students are Jews without exception, and those
who were recently accepted are non-Jews? Or are we mistaken in this reasoning, given that it contradicts the most important pillar
of our Basic Law, which is: There is no difference between Iraqis in rights before the law, even if they differ
in nationality, religion, and language (Article 6). We have consulted His Excellency the Minister of Economy and Transportation but did not obtain
anything. Therefore, we seek your mercy regarding our case to remove the injustice that has befallen us, especially since it has become
impossible for us to resort to other schools given the time that has passed since their opening.
In view of the kindness and parental affection we know from Your Excellency toward people like us,
we have full hope that Your Excellency will look upon this plea of ours with eyes of mercy and compassion and decide our fate. To Your Excellency,
with the highest respect.
12 / 10 / 1935
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Ministry of Interior
General Police Directorate
Division
Telephone Number: 552 Baghdad
Baghdad on ⟦2 November 940⟧
Number 2040/⟦...⟧
To
The Honorable Head of the Jewish Community.
Baghdad.
Greetings.
Dr. Kalay Ali has claimed that the police had mistreated him while
he was detained, and since I intend to ascertain the truth of ⟦...⟧ I request you inform me of the names of relatives or
friends of the doctor in question who visited him in detention at the police station and those
who sent him his belongings by car to Fallujah after he left Baghdad so that I may proceed
with the investigation.
⟦Signature⟧
Major
Inspector General.
His Eminence the Head of the Community, Rabbi Sassoon Khedouri, met with His Excellency the Minister of Economy and Transportation, Muhammad Amin Zaki
Bey, on Wednesday morning, October 2, 1940, regarding what was stated in the petition submitted to His Excellency the Minister. He replied
denying that the Ministry had any involvement in the admission of 41 students who ⟦passed⟧ the previous exam, and added ⟦...⟧ of course, confirming that the successful candidates were
about 41 students, of whom 22 were selected because the class cannot accommodate more than this number. He also confirms that there was no involvement
of the influences mentioned by the students in removing the names of those eligible for the school; rather, this was done on a purely scientific basis. Given that he was
going to go himself in his car to the Mayor's office, he could send the sword to the student of the file issued in the department. As for the announcement
published in the newspapers, this does not change at all that reliance must be placed on the Ministry's decision, and students can, in case
they believe there is any transgression by the Director, appeal to the Governor.
As for the second part of the petition, the Minister completely denied that any other student had been accepted because of
the aforementioned Ministry decision.
When the case was presented again to the Director of Schools, he wanted to question students affiliated with the school to find out the truth, and through
His Eminence the President, regarding the case of the aforementioned group, which includes one of the students who signed the petition and
one of the school's students. From the latter's questioning regarding the work, he fully provided the Director's explanations and further clarified
that one of the students who had signed the petition claiming he was accepted after the Ministry's decision had actually been accepted into the Nursing School,
and the three others were only late in attending school due to the delay of their certificates in their province. Other than that, the rest mentioned
confirm the good treatment of the students by the school director.
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7 November 1935
To the Major Senior Inspector
In the Directorate of General Police - Baghdad
After greetings
Reference to your letter No. 235 dated 3 November 1935 ⟦...⟧
I have no knowledge of any visits by anyone to the doctor in custody. Based on a
telephone request from the doctor while he was in Ramadi, I sent him his belongings, including the passport and the money
owed to him by the school fund, in the company of the person named Isaac Sassoon Makhal and his brother (the latter being one
of the doctor's students) in a car transporting him to Al-Shalam, and that occurred after consulting the police.
For
On behalf of
Head of the Community
⟦24 September 1935⟧
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September 24, 1936
Secret
His Excellency the Honorable Minister of Interior
After greetings and respect, I submit to Your Excellency, attached to this letter, a copy
of the first issue of the magazine (Al-Raya) which was published in place of (Al-Kifah), which is suspended,
today (Thursday, 8 Rajab 1355), drawing Your Excellency's attention to what appeared in several places
therein, especially on pages 19 and 20 under the title (A Bit of History), which incites
feelings of hatred and animosity toward the Jews in Iraq in a manner that cannot be reconciled
in any way with the interest of the country.
⟦illegible⟧
Head of the Community
⟦illegible⟧
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2879
7 October 1936
His Excellency the Respected Minister of Interior
After greetings and respect, the General Council of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad, in its session held on October 6, 1936, instructed me to issue the
attached statement in view of the reasons contained therein.
Therefore, I request Your Excellency to kindly issue the order to the Directorate of Propaganda
and Publication to publish it in the local newspapers.
With great respect to Your Excellency,
On behalf of
The Head of the Community
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad
Telephone Number 531
Presidency of the Jewish Community * Baghdad
PRESIDENT
Of The Jewish Community - Baghdad
TELEPHONE NO. 531
Number :: 2879
Date :: October 7, 1936
Subject Summary ::
Declaration
In order to dispel the doubts and suspicions that have clung to minds regarding the Jews in
Iraq concerning the Zionist movement, and to reveal the pure truth, I saw it as
a duty to make the following declaration in the name of the Jewish community in Iraq:-
The Jewish community in Iraq absolutely has no connection of any kind
to the Zionist movement and has no involvement with its institutions, activities, or organizations at all,
nor does it provide assistance to this movement in any way, neither in Palestine nor
outside Palestine. Rather, the Jews in Iraq are Iraqis, intimately linked to the Iraqi
homeland, fully sharing with their Iraqi brothers in prosperity and adversity, feeling
what they feel, sharing their pains, and participating in their emotions.
Therefore, I have issued this declaration to clarify the truth.
⟦illegible⟧
President of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad