AI English Translation, Pages 151-175
9 Safar 1354 and 12 May 935
To
Directorate of General Education
Reference to your letter No. 4718 dated 3 May 935
You attribute to this Council a lack of spirit toward public interests from
the perspective under discussion. The Council knows of itself - as the government as a whole
knows of the Council and the community it represents - that they are committed to observing public interests
with a spirit of patriotism and unity. Accordingly, our Council confirms that the regret expressed by your
esteemed department in this regard is misplaced.
As for your objection regarding not taking the inspector's statement, this Council had requested
in its letter dated 19 February 935 to the Baghdad Education Directorate to provide it with all the reasons
for the teacher's accusation. It replied with its letter dated 21 / 2 / 935 containing the substance of the
inspector's report. After sending the committee's decision to you, we also asked whether there were other reasons
requiring a reconsideration of the matter; if the inspector had reasons not mentioned in the Education Directorate's
letter, they could have been stated or the inspector could have been sent to state them.
As for your directorate absolutely not permitting the teacher's return to Shamash School, our Council
does not wish now to delve into a discussion of this subject after what was understood from Your Excellency in
one of the oral interviews that you will refer the matter of determining the status of the community's schools
to a specialized committee;
The President
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Department of Auxiliary Knowledge
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A copy of what was recommended and the committee examined it in truth and handed it over that and regarding this
The reason it must be examined is that either a distance of the same and handed over that I withdraw it as a case of what concerns us
What was recommended has not been clarified to us - for its invalidity and this may be what surrounds it if it remains
Documents from a previous date, the delivery was without an amount. The case has allowed what happens
On any capacity that the director's establishment has been scrutinized.
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Because of it, and he becomes an assistant by going out to him, he has reached perhaps 562 for 21 in them, which is a liter
Previously with a telegram number included 562 / 6 / 16 in them for the liter of your blessing to him. And when she was born
And they are third doors, not for me for this, so that we may become familiar and live, what any and the hour has sought. And his half
A section of instead of a liter, perhaps a health of what is requested for work in a place where there is no relief, and in them perhaps we reached a scent of scarcity
For the secret of a generation to work and the hour p the and if it were not us, we have in what
For his receipt of a liter for a bit, he has reached perhaps and when it may happen to his fewness where he is not famous for it, what
And with a share and this goodness from the gift of our profit is spent and in them that he is a fighter of my Lord by passing that as if other than no
A masterpiece for the patient that he has granted a wife, so he knows and this is his division for the deceptions of all the meeting and I went
A section of his death, a section of them, perhaps
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Shamash School
Secondary * Baghdad
Shamash Secondary School
Baghdad
No. 94
Date: 25 / 2 / 1945
Subject:
His Excellency
The Respected President of the Lay Council
Greetings and respect,
We enclose herewith a copy of the letter received from the Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province, and I have been notified
verbally ⟦pursuant to⟧ the notification of the ⟦explanations⟧ of this letter officially to the guardians of the expelled students,
and they were asked for the name of the school they wish to transfer to and to notify the Directorate of Education
of that. Respectfully yours,
⟦signature⟧
School Administration
Confidential
Education of Baghdad Province
Confidential
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Number 9 / 24
Date 24 / 2 / 1945
To Shamash Private School
Further to our letter No. S / 12 dated 11 / 2 / 945
It has been decided to allow the three expelled students to join one of the schools
German Mission . American . on the condition that they are not accepted into your school
absolutely in the future.
(Signature)
Director of Baghdad Education
Administration of the Lay Council - Baghdad
Number 2396
Date 4 / 3 / 945
File Number 46
Form No. 13 - 2000 - 1 - 1934
Shamash School
Shamash Secondary School
Secondary * Baghdad
Baghdad
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No. الرقم
Date. التاريخ: 5/25/⟦illegible⟧
Subject. الموضوع: Reinstatement of students
His Excellency the President of the Honorable Physical Council
Greetings and respect
We convey to you below a copy of the two letters received by us from the Directorate of Education of the Baghdad Province and we hope
to be informed of what needs to be done regarding this, and may you remain respected
Acting Director
To the Director of Shamash School
The General Directorate of Education informed us in its letter No. 4924 dated May 9, 925, that it has no objection
to the return of the student Salim Eliyahu Dangour to Shamash School now, and we believe that his remaining outside
the school for a period depends on ⟦illegible⟧ his benefit from the reform aspect
Acting Director of Education of Baghdad Province
To the Director of Shamash School
The General Directorate of Education has approved the return of the student Anwar Shohet to your school for the reasons
that we explained to you in our letter No. 1525 dated 5/11/925
Acting Director of Education of Baghdad Province
2880
15 May 935
Directorate of Shamash School
Reference to your letter No. 20 dated 14 May 935
We approve the return of the students Salim Eliyahu Dangoor and Edward Shohet to your school;
Director
⟦illegible⟧
President
Baghdad 16 / 5 / 1925
His Excellency the President of the Respected Spiritual Council
Greetings and respect.
Furthermore, in view of the decision issued by the Directorate of Education of the Baghdad Province to return my two colleagues
Edward Shomait and Selim Zalkhouf to their school, and since the accusation for which I was expelled
is the very same accusation for which the others were expelled, I therefore request you to kindly issue your generous order
to return me to my school, from which I have been deprived for a period exceeding three months
Thanking you for your favor, my lord, and may you remain so
Eliyahu Yusuf Al-Ani
2880
18 May 935
Directorate of Shamash School
Further to our letter No. 2880 dated 15 May 935
We approve the return of the student Eliyahu Yusuf Al-Sani to your school;
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The President
A
2879
15 May 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 insulting words 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
insults 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.
⟦illegible⟧
The President
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23 Dhu al-Qi'dah 1353 and 26 February 1935
Regarding financial aid for schools
Baghdad Education Directorate
The schools affiliated with this council have sent us copies of your decisions taken regarding the reduction of
the usual financial aid for this year and replacing it next year with employees, and the
administration of Shamash School has sent us a copy of the order in which you canceled the financial aid for the aforementioned school
for the current academic year.
The rule that the esteemed Ministry has followed until now in reducing aid is to increase it
for schools it is satisfied with and decrease it for schools that do not gain its satisfaction. While we were in firm hope
that the esteemed Ministry would increase the grants for the Rachel Shahmoon and Al-Wataniya schools - which are among the finest private schools
in terms of results and curriculum, as evidenced by exam results and testified by inspectors' reports and your own respected
directorate - similar to other schools that have gained its favor in terms of plans and curriculum and whose
financial aid has been increased on several occasions, we find that the financial aid for each of these two schools has
been reduced from 145 Dinars for Rachel Shahmoon School and 120 Dinars for Al-Wataniya School to 54 Dinars for each
of them. Furthermore, the cancellation of the Shamash School grant in the middle of the academic year - after our council had approved
its budget - will inevitably lead to a disruption in the school's operation.
In general, the usual aid to schools has often not been proportional to the services these schools
provide toward general education in the country. Reducing this aid - at a time when you are requesting
us to implement important improvements and reforms in our schools that require increased expenditures - besides not being consistent
in any way with the encouragement we always expected from the Ministry of Education, it undoubtedly paralyzes the progress of the
aforementioned schools and inevitably leads to their decline, given the tight finances of this council, at a time when our schools were
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From 10/26/1956 to 10/27/1956
Head of the Community in ordinary cases
Developments in the matter
On the occasion of the departure of His Eminence the Hakham Bashi from Iraq and his travel abroad, Mr. Sassoon
Khedouri has been entrusted with the duties of the presidency of the Mosaic Community in ordinary cases. As for cases
that require decisions from the Spiritual Council or the Lay Council, or both, they shall be submitted to these councils
at the time to take the necessary decisions regarding them.
The Spiritual Council had previously taken a decision authorizing the Hakham Bashi the power to sign
marriage contracts, certificates of celibacy, wills, medical and legal reports, and other official documents
issued by the community - and since Mr. Sassoon Khedouri has commenced his aforementioned duties, the
Spiritual Council decides to continue this arrangement throughout the duration of the Hakham Bashi's stay outside Iraq,
provided that Mr. Sassoon Khedouri signs in his capacity as Acting President of the Spiritual Council - as for
transactions that require a decision from the Spiritual Council, they must be presented to the aforementioned council
to take the necessary decision regarding them, provided that the said decision is signed by the President of the Council and its members
present. As for transactions that do not require a decision from the Spiritual Council, the signature of
Mr. Sassoon Khedouri in his capacity as Acting President of the Spiritual Council shall suffice.
It appeared from the statements submitted by the Financial Department that the allocations set for the Hakham Bashi were spent
in the amount of one hundred and fifty dinars per month, and that the allocations set for Mr. Sassoon Khedouri in his capacity
as Acting President of the Spiritual Council are twenty-five dinars per month starting from the date he commenced
his aforementioned duties - accordingly, the Spiritual Council has decided to approve the payment of the aforementioned allocations
to Mr. Sassoon Khedouri in his capacity as Acting President of the Spiritual Council starting from the date he commenced his duties.
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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
2282
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,
confirming the letter of 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 the aid to Shamash School and other schools as usual, in the firm hope that Your Excellency will kindly
take the necessary steps to fulfill my statements.
On behalf of
The Head of the Community
A copy to the Baghdad Education Directorate
⟦illegible⟧
The Jewish Community
Ministry of Education of Iraq
Personnel Affairs Department
Number / 6951
Date 26 Rabi' al-Awwal 54
27 June 35
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Subject - Opening Schools
To His Eminence the Head of the Jewish Community, Respected
Baghdad
After greetings
Reference to your letter numbered 3342 and dated 4/6/35
We have instructed to consider the request you referred to when looking into opening schools for the upcoming
academic year.
⟦signature⟧
For the Minister of Education
A copy of it to -
Primary Education Supervision
Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province - with a copy of the aforementioned letter
Personnel Affairs Department
A. Sh.
Referred to His Excellency the Head of the Jewish Schools Committee, Respected
1/7/935
⟦signature⟧
Head of the Jewish Community
⟦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
7027
⟦illegible⟧
⟦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⟧
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.
Directorate of
Education of Baghdad Province
Number 2490/11/2
Date 54/4/24
935/7/25
Subject ⟦line⟧
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 prefer them over
foreigners when you appoint teachers at the beginning of the next school year, as Iraqis are more entitled
to appointment and more suitable than foreigners.
⟦signature⟧
Director of Education of Baghdad
A copy of it to -
General Directorate of Education
For information
Special file
Q / R
Ministry of Education of Iraq
Correspondence Section
Date 5 Dhu al-Hijjah 354
27 February 36
Number 1 / 5 / 2509
To the Directorate of Alliance Schools
Baghdad
In response to your letter dated 23/2/36
The Ministry of Education will consider the matter at the beginning of the coming year as it is not in
our ability to consider it at the present time due to the lack of sufficient allocations in
the current year's budget.
⟦signature⟧
Acting Director General of Education
A copy of it to -
Directorate of Baghdad Education Area
Ministry Accounts Department
A. Q.
The National School WATANIYAH SCHOOL
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Baghdad: 21 / 5 / 1936
Baghdad:
193:
My dear Shalom Effendi
Enclosed you will find a copy of the letter from the Baghdad
Education Directorate regarding the school committee. We kindly
request you to return it when you are finished with
it. Thank you, your brother
Sincerely,
⟦illegible⟧
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Directorate
Baghdad Education District
Number 16/6 / 2922
Date 8/7 / 1354
29/2 / 1936
Subject
To the Director of Rambam 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, in view of the end of distributions for this year, your case
will be considered when making distributions in the next fiscal year.
(Jassim Al-Alousi)
Acting Director of Baghdad Education District
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⟧
Directorate
Baghdad Education District
Number: 16/6 / 292
Date: 7 / 12 / 1354
29 / 2 / 1936
Subject ⟦line⟧
To the Principal 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 due to the completion of distributions for this year, your case will be considered when making
distributions in the next fiscal year.
⟦signature⟧
Acting Director of Baghdad Education District
H / Sh
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.
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:
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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.