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IJA 2783

Correspondence from the Jewish Community Relating to the Jewish Hospitals in Baghdad

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Description

This is a booklet titled "Jewish Properties Committee, Hospital Committee." It includes: verification information on the Dar-el-Shifa Society for the Jewish poor, a letter from the incumbent of the Jewish community endowment to the Property Office Manager requesting property plan, and a copy of the requested plan with information on the endowed hospital for the needy from the Jewish community.

Metadata

Archive Reference
IJA 2783
Item Number
12067
Date
Approx. January 1, 1941 to December 31, 1950
Languages
Arabic
Keywords
Hospital, Baghdadi Jewish Community, Dar-el-Shifa/Refouah Pharmacy, Waqf, Judeo-Arabic, Endowment, Financial, Typed, Jewish Hospitals Committee, Annotation, Correspondence, Office of Deeds Administration – Baghdad, Jewish Hospitals, Handwritten, British Occupation

AI English Translation, Pages 1-25

Archival unit 1

Israeli Property Committee
Name of Institution: Hospitals Committee
Register Serial Number: 168
Land Registry Serial: 205
Door Number: 2/2 Qanbar Ali
Type of Property: House
Trustee: Dar Al-Shifa Association

Archival unit 2

Report No. (21)
File Number: 168
Endowment Type: House
Neighborhood: Qanbar Ali
Sequence: 305
Door Number: 103/50
Endower Name: .
Beneficiary Party:
Property: Dar Al-Shifa Association for the Poor of the Mosaic Community.
Endowment Deed: None
Supervision and Endower's Conditions
This house is an endowment for the Dar Al-Shifa Association for the Poor of the Mosaic Community, as stated in the land registry deed dated
December 1920, claim and sequence 305, kept in the file, under the condition of disposal by the association
mentioned.
Note
A - There is no endowment deed for the mentioned property.
B - This house has ⟦it⟧ been consolidated with the house numbered with sequence 307 located in the neighborhood of
Qanbar Ali and leased to the National School - See file numbered 171 -
Written on 4/29/1954
Lawyer Ibrahim Hazoum          Lawyer Daoud Samra
⟦blue mark⟧

Archival unit 3

19
Deed
Permanent Syria: ⟦illegible⟧
Book Number ⟦illegible⟧
Volume Number ⟦illegible⟧
Land Registry
Record Number: ⟦illegible⟧
Municipal Department
Page Number ⟦illegible⟧
Paper Number ⟦illegible⟧
House ⟦illegible⟧
Summary of the British Military
1029
28 / 8 / 1949
His Excellency the Director of Land Registry of Baghdad Province, Respected
After greetings
I request you to kindly provide me with a copy of a unified map for the two properties sequence
305 and 307, door numbers 103/50 and 103/52 located in the neighborhood of
Qanbar Ali, with a copy of the record for each of them ⟦line⟧ .
Please accept my respect;
Head of the Community
The Trustee of the Endowments of
The Jewish Community in Baghdad
14
Land Registry Officer ⟦illegible⟧ 8 / 9 / 49 ⟦illegible⟧
Signature
Director of Land Registry
⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧
Deed 58

Archival unit 4

Deed
Imperial
Permanent Control Series: Its value ⟦illegible⟧
Office Number 12
Volume Number 12
Page Number 46
British Military Property
Liwa of Baghdad, District of Baghdad, Sub-district, Village
Neighborhood ⟦illegible⟧ Qarghali, Location Zanat, Old Mosque
Under Witness ⟦line⟧
Preservation Number: ⟦illegible⟧
Department ⟦illegible⟧
Vergi Second Number ⟦line⟧
Vergi General Number ⟦line⟧
Day of the New Tablet 305
Remarks
Type: It includes two rooms, two kitchens, two upper houses, a number, two floors, and old narrow paths
Category: Waqf
Boundaries: The ⟦illegible⟧ side between the house of the heirs of Mr. Harun the Jew ⟦line⟧ Al-B - Waqf house towards the real estate street
The Western side ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦line⟧ the mentioned Waqf house ⟦line⟧
This house is a Waqf for the Dar al-Shifa side in the amount of one hundred shares, and its value is a quarter of one estimation of its boundaries on four sides
With the Tapu fee, and since an original document was missing, we conducted investigations and it was announced in the Iraq Newspaper on November 24
and 25, 28, 29 November 1928 and 1, 2, 3, 4, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 December 1928 and 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 January 1929 and due to no objection to the mentioned house ⟦illegible⟧
organized and in number and administration and according to the registers organized, refer during the specified period to the committee of the mentioned house
defined as a Waqf in the name of the Dar al-Shifa side in the amount of the attributed share with the Tapu fee and according to the Sharia procedures and the statement of
the inspection officer, the engineer, the investigations of the center officer, and the registered Tapu zones.
Value | Amount | Taxes | Estimations
Dirham | Fils | Rupee | Anna
⟦illegible⟧ | 225 | 224 | 9000
According to the descriptions of the boundaries as a Waqf in the name of the Dar al-Shifa side, it must first be subject to the condition of disposal at the end of the Dar al-Shifa page
in the amount of the attributed hundred in the mentioned house according to the organized law and it was given
Tapu Inspector
Signature
2/21/1929
Tapu Director
Ali Ghalib
Tapu Department
Imperial Number
New Deed
58

Archival unit 5

Integrity of Baghdad. 10 June 945
Signature
Land Registry of Hilla Province
Assistant Director of Land Registry
⟦illegible⟧
The endowment transaction did not arrive on 1 June 945
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