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IJA 3772

Financial Documents, Baghdadi Jewish Community

Description

These documents include financial receipts, including postage receipts, a bicycle purchase; bills such as power, water, and phone; community organization invoices, repairs for office equipment, construction materials, printing, office supplies, advertising, handwritten ledgers, notices for outstanding balances, community announcements in newspapers, and lists of expenditures for different items and services purchased by the Baghdadi Jewish Community. There are statements from La Société Anonyme Ottomane des Tramways Eclairages et Forces Electriques de Baghdad, the precursor to the Baghdad Light and Power company.

Metadata

Archive Reference: IJA 3772
Item Number: 6721
Date: Approx. January 1, 1921 to December 31, 1930
Languages: Multiple Languages
Keywords: Society of Water, Financial, Bills, Illustration, Judeo-Arabic, Jewish Religious Court, London, Revenue Stamp, Al-‘Ālam Al-‘Arabī, Newspaper, Ledger, Baghdad Light and Power, Department of Posts & Telegraphs, File Folder, Thumbprint, Typed, Advertisement, Baghdadi Jewish Community, Jewish Charitable Society Press, Electricity Bill, Clippings, Ink Stamp, Receipts, Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews, Letterhead, Invoice, Jewish Lay Council, Chief Rabbi, Al-‘Irāq, Doctors, Al-Istiqlāl, British Occupation, Annotation, Handwritten, Jewish Schools Committee

AI English Translation, Pages 276-300

Archival unit 276

Statement of the number of checks drawn so far to their order
March 1944
425 X To the Minister, His Eminence the Acting Chief Rabbi, Hafiz Sassoon Khedhouri 4/4/44 for his salary
640 X " " " " " " " " " Clergy salaries
400 X " " " " " " " " " Salary of Rabbi Seton
1708 X Rabbi Sassoon Isaac and Rabbi Abraham Eliyahu = Staff salaries
1060 X " " Michael Bahya = " Retirees ⟦illegible⟧
2022 X " " S. A. Brosht, Shemtob School allocations
1002 X " " ⟦illegible⟧ Zubaida
985 X Director of Supplies, total salaries of Endowments with Kamal Al-Habib and the Institution for the Blind
2220 X Simon Sassoon ⟦illegible⟧
2040 X Dr. Daoud Waqi' and Sassoon Nahum
1094 X Hafiz Al-Shaloubi on behalf of Rabbi Sassoon
925 X ⟦illegible⟧ Miss, teacher at Rachel Shahmoon School
416 X Rabbi Shmuel Gagliardo, deceased ⟦illegible⟧
748 X Director of Al-Karam School ⟦illegible⟧
200 X Salon Hamlet Magazine and Khedhouri Ezra Soda'i
1950 X Rabbi Ezekiel Rabbi Aaron ⟦illegible⟧
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18585
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aca
14 April 44
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Accountant

Archival unit 277

15 April 929
Ash Rosa
Total salary expenditure for the month of March 1929
Which must be added to the account of the month of March ⟦illegible⟧
Our employees in the Research Department 120 00
Yaqoub Hafiz, personal teacher account 20 00
Difference in soap allowances in schools 14 15
Saleh Shmuel 60 00
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224 5
Total that had to be paid in the month of March only
224 5
19961 12
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In furniture and stationery allowances 40
Distribution Committee in Nineveh on the occasion of the Eid 1000
Tawfiq Shalwa and Qasso to me 8
Hospital allowances 52 5
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1101 5
1281 5
280 0
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1281 5
18580 8
Adding the salary of the direct employee, the account is due tonight ⟦illegible⟧
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18585 8

Archival unit 278

Rounded
⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧
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⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧
83728 / 8
Rounded
Deposit registers ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧
⟦line⟧
Fire and Transport Department ...
General Secretariat ...
Other works ⟦illegible⟧ ...
Water Authority ...
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12298 / 61 ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧
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⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧
⟦line⟧
1861 / 5 ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧
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⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧

Archival unit 279

Statement of salaries and allowances for the month of April 929 in the treasury of the Lay Council
Salaries
425 " His Eminence the Chief Rabbi Hakham Sassoon Khadduri
250 " Director of Supplies Anwar Effendi Shaul
120 " Accountant Yosef Levi
80 " Clerk Shallum Effendi Darwish
60 " Clerk Naji Effendi
60 " Menashi Effendi
60 " The Usher Cohen Sassoon
50 " Menashi Shaul
45 " Yosef Menachem
25 " Isaac Eliyahu
45 " The Doorman Kahla Mahla
640 " Total salaries of spiritual teachers
708 " " " Education
1090 " " Cleaners, servants, and synagogue staff
100 " Salary of Shaul Muhib
4748 "
Allowances
2240 " Alliance School
1450 " Hospital administration Kifah Shaul Sassoon 929
2022 " Shamash School
1094 " " National
945 " " Rachel Shehet
520 " Shamash Girls' School
748 " Karkh School
416 " Talmud Torah Society
200 " Ozer Dalim Committee
100 " Al-Kimian Institution
9735 " Miss A. Barkat and wife
668 daughter of Pauline Simo 50/000 1226
224 " " " 25/000
1002 " Current Account
1490 Schools Committee
690 " Hospital
2080 "
10000 Nuriel School
18585 Only eighteen thousand five hundred and eighty-eight rupees and eighty-two annas, no more
14 April 929
Yosef Levi
Accountant

Archival unit 280

List of expenses for the administration of the Israelite community for the month of March
Rupee | Anna
2 | 9 | To Yusuf the bailiff for his trips to the hospital in carriages for official matters
4 | — | A ledger for the Khan Bakr committee
— | 5 | Five hundred envelopes
10 | — | Carriage fare for going to the memorial of Ata al-Khatib
5 | 20 | Stationery according to the attached list dated 3/3/929
— | 15 | Two dictionaries
— | 10 | Car and carriage fares on the occasion of Ramadan greetings
4 | 1 | Postage for sending prayer books to the Rabbi of Beirut
10 | — | Calendar
3 | — | Five sheets of stamped paper
— | 5 | Printing the "Tefillin" circular, 500 sheets
— | 5 | Aid for Meir Shabbat via Ezra Menashi
8 | — | Stamp for the Al-Nayla lease contract
Rupee | Anna
— | — | To Yusuf the bailiff
— | — | Stamp for a letter to Jerusalem
5 | — | Stamp for a letter to Basra
8 | — | Stamp for the Al-Nayla contract (second time)
6 | — | Sugar loaf
2 | — | Gas
4 | 1 | Coffee
6 | — | Letter to Bombay
8 | — | Stamp for the contract of Al-Ward and Elias
3 | — | Letter
2 | — | Gas
7 | — | Half an oqqa of coffee
8 | — | Stamp law
— | 5 | An oqqa of coffee
— | 10 | Car and carriage fares on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr
— | 30 | " " High Commissioner and the Consul of Iran
— | 9 | Printing, binding, and purchasing paper for 6 outgoing and incoming ledgers for the administrations of the Chief Rabbi and the Council
4 | 40 | Bell
8 | 2 | Water fees for the two months of January, February, and March 929 according to the receipt dated 19/3/29
8 | 7 | What follows it
2 | 173 | ⟦line⟧

Archival unit 281

Rupees | Annas
173 | 2 | Previous balance
 |  | Writing three signs
Rupees | Annas |
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2 |  | Sign for the Physical Council
2 | " | Chief Rabbi
2 |  | The Accountant
6 | - |
3 | - | Guarding according to a receipt dated 28/3/929
15 | - | Guarding for the administration guards according to the receipt dated 1 April 929
47 | - | Two desks
5 | 10 | Car and carriage hire on the occasion of the <del>Fitr</del> Passover holiday for Christians to visit the Minister of Finance, consuls of nations, and spiritual heads
- | 2 | Assistance to Esther Sabbagh by sending a letter to Basra
- | 1 | Stamp for Yusuf Shakarji
1 | 14 | A tin of gas
- | 4 | Nails
- | 2 | Completion for a contractor's telegram
- | 10 | Car hire to go to the Police Director for the Hebra Qaddisha committee
- | 3 | Stamp for a letter to Izmir
1 | 10 | Going to the Minister of Justice three times to confirm official business
 |  | " " " Interior twice for the dyer's fees
 |  | Annas Rupees
 |  | 4 11 Fare for going
5 | 4 | 6 What the dyer paid for the Council
2 | 6 | Car hire (Director of Justice and Fahmi Effendi the teacher)
- | 10 | Matches
1 | 12 | Coffee
- | 8 | Mezuzah
- | 8 | Stamp for the diamond and rose contractor
4 | 9 | Cigarettes
- | 6 | Key for the Council room
2 | - | Car hire (Prisons)
- | 10 | Folders
273 | 3 | Two hundred seventy-three rupees and twelve annas
1 | - | Inkwell
1 | - | <del>Fee for a telephone call to Baghdad regarding ⟦illegible⟧</del>
- | 2 | Stamp ⟦illegible⟧ to the acting Chief Rabbi of Basra
275 | 5 | Two hundred seventy-four annas only
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