Requests for Visas; Verification Certificates, Baghdadi Jewish Community
View interactive document pageThese are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are correspondence with community members asking for assistance and visas; birth, life, betrothal, marriage, divorce, widowhood, and death certificates. Some of the verification certificates include names written in Hebrew. One of the letters from the president of the Lay Council in Baghdad is to a Rabbi in New York City about the betrothal of Baghdadi woman to an American man; other letters are confirming the death of a husband and the widow status of a wife and family in need of financial assistance.
Registrar of Engagement and Marriage Contracts for the Jewish Community in Baghdad Baghdad on 2 / 4 / 1950 Presidency of the Jewish Community Baghdad After greetings Based on the investigations conducted by me, I hereby certify that Miss ⟦Habiba daughter of Salloum⟧ is not engaged or married and has no record in the relevant registers. Shamoun Shaul H. Shamoun Indigent ⟦illegible⟧ 2/4 ⟦illegible⟧
50 / 2285 1950 / 3 / 20 ⟦Department Copy⟧ Certificate Based on the certificate of the Registrar of Engagement and Marriage Contracts for the Jewish community in Baghdad, we hereby confirm that Miss Habiba Sassoon is not engaged nor married, and there is no record for her in the relevant registers. ⟦signature⟧ Acting Head of the Community President of the Lay Council ⟦signature⟧ 2/29 ⟦illegible⟧ P / 3 / 19
⟦His Eminence the President⟧ I testify that Eliyahu Ibrahim Jouri, aged twenty-seven years, whose photograph is attached, is of Iraqi nationality, and that his character is good and his conduct is fine, and for this reason he was provided with this certificate. Mukhtar | Mukhtar | Mukhtar Anwar Salman | Moshe Shaul Shaker | The Israelite Community In the place of Murad Jouri | In the place of Murad Jouri | Qanbar Ali Rescue Stamp (10 Fils) Stamp Seal of the Mukhtar Number H 228 / 50 Date - 22 / 3 / 1950 We confirm the authenticity of the seal above belonging to the Mukhtar of the Qanbar Ali neighborhood in Baghdad. Acting Head of the Community President of the Lay Council ⟦illegible signature/stamp⟧
The Administrator of Jewish Burial Affairs Baghdad Baghdad on ⟦line⟧ Presidency of the Jewish Community Baghdad After greetings Based on the records established in my registers, I hereby certify that the person named חביבה בת דוד passed away in Baghdad on the 17th seventeenth day of the month of Tishrei, year 5710 (10/9/1949) and for this reason I have signed below ⟦Signature⟧ 2/21/50 ⟦Signature/Stamp⟧ Heskel Haddad The Administrator of Jewish Burial Affairs Passed 2/21 ⟦...⟧ 2/21
Copy ⟦illegible⟧ 50/2288 3/ /1950 Death Certificate Based on the certificate of the person in charge of burial matters in the Jewish cemetery in Baghdad, we hereby confirm that the person named Daoud Youssef Daoud Al-Beik has died in Baghdad on the ninth day of October in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-nine AD. ⟦signature⟧ Acting Head of the Community Head of the Lay Council ⟦signature⟧ Page ⟦illegible⟧ On ⟦illegible⟧ P/3/21
500 / 2289 1950 / 3 / 22 ⟦Copy of the document⟧ The Exhibit Basim Sabeeh ⟦line⟧ Miss Almas Yaqoub The tenth of September in the year nineteen hundred and thirty AD. A / 3 / 21 ⟦signature⟧ Acting Head of the Community Head of the Lay Council ⟦illegible⟧ 3 / 21
50 / 2290 22 / 3 / 1950 ⟦Duly processed⟧ 478 Heskel Gurji, known as Heskel Gurji Benjamin Miss Nouriya Salim, known as Hanna Nouriya daughter of Salim Benjamin The eighteenth of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-seven AD. (True copy of the original) Baghdad on 10 / October / 1950 Acting Head of the Community President of the Lay Council ⟦signature⟧ 10 / 10 / 50
50/2291 1950/3/22 ⟦Department Copy⟧ 429 Ibrahim Ishaq Daoud Al-Beik Miss Rosa Haroun known as Zubaida Rosa Haroun Ezra Sarraf The twenty-second of September of the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight AD. ⟦signature⟧ ⟦signature⟧ Acting Head of the ⟦Community⟧ President of the Lay Council ⟦Authentication of Signature⟧ 3/21 P/3/21
His Excellency the Acting Head of the Community, Respected After greetings, We, the undersigned, certify that Tuffaha daughter of ⟦Shara'⟧ Rabbi Ibrahim Horini is the wife of Haron Ezra Haron, and for this purpose we have signed below. Witness Ezra Murad ⟦illegible⟧ Witness ⟦Moshe Sasson⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ I certify the correctness of the content of this testimony The Mukhtar ⟦illegible stamp⟧ ⟦illegible⟧
50 / 2295 22 / 3 / 1950 ⟦illegible⟧ 368 Moshe Rahmin Moshe Miss Simha Moshe Ephraim The third of Nisan of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-six AD. Whereas The situation was lost 2/20 ⟦signature⟧ Acting Head of the Community President of the Lay Council P / 3/20
50/2295 3/22/1950 ⟦Health of the Department⟧ 368 Moshe Rahman Moshe Miss Bahja Moshe Ephraim The third of April of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty- six AD. (True copy) Baghdad on August 2, 1950 ⟦illegible⟧ On behalf of the Acting Head of the Community President of the Lay Council ⟦illegible signature⟧ 8/2/
50/2292 1950/3/22 ⟦Department Copy⟧ 468 Ibrahim Abdullah, known as Ibrahim Abdullah Hawki Pasha Miss Saida Heskel Ezra The thirteenth of July of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight AD. ⟦...⟧ 2/20 ⟦signature⟧ Acting Head of the Community President of the Lay Council A / 3/20
50/2287 3/22/1950 Copy for statement Copy for the department 143 Daoud Munshi, known as Daoud Munshi Habib Darwish Miss Wazira Eliyahu, known as Wiza Eliyahu Shua The ninth of December of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-six AD ⟦line⟧ . ⟦illegible⟧ A / 3/20 Acting Head of the Community President of the Lay Council
50/2298 1950/3/22 ⟦illegible⟧ Department 131 Youssef Ibrahim, known as Youssef Ibrahim Eliahou Miss Salima Yaqoub, known as Salima Yaqoub Nahoum The thirtieth of December of the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four AD. <del>⟦illegible⟧</del> ⟦illegible⟧ on behalf of President of the Lay Council ⟦illegible signature⟧ 3/20/A Poor of the ⟦illegible⟧ 2/2
50 / 2299 2/22/1950 Department Copy 116 Youssef Sima Antoub Miss Habiba Raphael, known by the name Habiba Raphael Levy The third of September of the year one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three AD ⟦line⟧ ⟦signature⟧ Acting President of ⟦illegible⟧ President of the Spiritual Council ⟦signature⟧ 2/20 A / 3/20
50 / 2200 1950 / 3 / 22 ⟦Validity of Signature⟧ 112 Ephraim Abboudi, known as Ephraim Abboudi Malka Miss Nouria Heskel, known as Nouria Heskel Eliyahu Samouha Levi The thirteenth of November of the year one thousand nine hundred and forty- seven AD. ⟦illegible⟧ Acting Head of the Community President of the Lay Council ⟦illegible⟧ 2/20 ⟦illegible⟧ 2/20 A / 20 / 3
1-50/22 1950/3/22 104 Aziz Youssef known as Aziz Youssef Aziz Sulaymaniyah Miss Khazna Abed known as Khazna Abed Isaac The third of December in the year one thousand nine hundred and forty-one AD ⟦line⟧ . ⟦signature⟧ (Copy of Certificate) ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ 3/20/4 Acting Head of the Community Chairman of the Spiritual Council
Registrar of Engagement and Marriage Contracts for the Jewish Community in Baghdad Baghdad on 22 / 4 / 1950 Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad After greetings Based on the marriage certificate numbered 22, I hereby certify that Mr. ⟦Basim Al-Basim son of Eliyahu⟧ has married in Baghdad Miss ⟦Farha daughter of Isaac Moallem Ibrahim⟧ on the day ⟦Thursday 22 / June / 1911 (22 Sivan 5671)⟧ ( ⟦line⟧ Ketubah amount: 149,000 One hundred and forty-nine thousand Witnesses: Siam Shamoun / Ezra Shamoun Shamoun Shaul H. Shamoun S. Shaul ⟦...⟧ Department Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
2 - 00/22 1950/3/22 Department copy 269 Ibrahim Eliyahu known as Ibrahim Eliyahu Haskil, Iranian Miss Farha Yaqub known as Farha Yaqub Ishaq, Iranian The twenty-second of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and eleven AD ⟦line⟧ . ⟦signature⟧ 3/20 ⟦signature⟧ Acting Head of the Community President of the Lay Council ⟦signature⟧ 3/20 on / 3/20
50 / 2202 22 / 3 / 1950 ⟦Department Health⟧ 332 Abraham Yaqub, known as Abraham Yaqub Isaac Miss Khatoun Daoud Abdullah Basson The thirteenth of March of the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty AD. ⟦illegible signature⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ 2/20 ⟦signature⟧ on behalf of President of the Lay Council A / 20 / 3