Financial Documents, Baghdadi Jewish Community
View interactive document pageThese 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.
I received from the Committee of Israeli Schools twelve annas and that is for eight postage stamps purchased for the account of the Committee, October 22, 1940 Approved for payment of twelve annas 22/10/40 Secretary President ⟦signature⟧ ⟦signature⟧ ⟦illegible stamp⟧
Number 232 Jewish Charitable Society Press Baghdad Under the Tekiya No. 22 / 115 Established in 1929 Jewish Charitable Society Press Jewish Baghdad JEWISH CHARITABLE SOCIETY PRESS, BAGHDAD ESTABLISHED 1929 Date: October 27, 1930 Dated,: 1930 To: The Honorable President of the Jewish Schools Committee Statement of the list of publications printed for your account as follows :-: Anna | Rupee | Type of Publications | Quantity | Remarks 8 | 12 | Shari File copies | 200 | 8 | 2 | Printing fee | | Received the full amount ⟦line⟧ | 15 | Only fifteen rupees | ⟦line⟧ | ⟦signature⟧ Spent under my supervision Please send it with the bearer With many thanks in advance 20 / 10 / 30 ⟦signature⟧ I received the mentioned amount Ibrahim Luyif To be paid from the Jewish Schools Committee fund President Secretary 27 / 10 / 30 Signature
Number 259 Jewish Charitable Society Press Baghdad Under the Takia No. 32/115 Established in 1929 Jewish Charitable Society Press Jewish Baghdad JEWISH CHARITABLE SOCIETY PRESS, BAGHDAD ESTABLISHED 1929 ⟦line⟧ Dated,: 20/11/9 Date: To the Honorable Chairman of the Jewish Schools Committee Statement of the list of publications printed for your account as follows:- Anna | Rupee | Type of Publications | Quantity | Remarks " | 7 | Idris | 1000 | " | 4 | Memo | 6000 | ⟦line⟧ | 11 | Only eleven rupees | ⟦line⟧ | ⟦line⟧ Spent by my knowledge 20/11/10 Please send it with the bearer And we thank you in advance We certify the payment of eleven rupees to its order Secretary Musallam President ⟦illegible⟧ 20/11/10 I received the amount ⟦illegible⟧ 20/11/13 Khedhouri Signature
Baghdad: 29 / 7 / 1930 Hand receipt Rupees: 35 / - Annas: Only thirty-five rupees and no more I have received from the treasury of the Hakham Bashi administration the amount noted above Only thirty-five rupees and no more, and that is for repairing the typewriter according to the details provided in our list No. 2069 dated 20 / 7 / 30 And accordingly, I have signed this receipt, POSTAGE & REVENUE Financial REVENUE 1 ANNA IRAQ Iraq 1 Anna Signature of the recipient: ⟦signature⟧ Clear address: 8 Khedhouri Saleh Shasha Owner of the Rubber Stamp Factory 26 - 9
Book AP
No. 3079
Khedhouri Saleh Sheena
K. S. SHEENA
Rubber and Metal Stamps Maker
RUBBER & METAL STAMPS MAKER
Repairer and Seller of Cameras and Typewriters
CAMERA, TYPEWRITER DEALER & REPAIRER
Ras el Qaryah: near Khasaki Mosque
el Qaryah : near Khasaki Mosque
No. 9 - 36 Baghdad (Iraq)
No. 9 / 36
BAGHDAD ('IRAQ)
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Baghdad on: 20 October 1920
Baghdad:
Date. | Description | Rs. | As.
| The Israelite Spiritual Council
Baghdad | |
20/8 | Smith Premier Arabic Typewriter
30 MZ50020
Cleaning and adjusting balance | 2 | 0
20/9/11 | One letter (B) | 0 | 8
20/9/19 | Proximate welding from changing parts and cleaning adjusting
balance | 29 | 8
| Thirty-five Rupees only | 35 | 0
Khedhouri Saleh
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Expenses of the Community Administration Description | Rupee | Anna Lighting and extending an electric wire to the typing office | 2 | 8 Stamps and transport paper for the Community State | 1 | 4 Effendi (Black and Green) | 14 | Manuscript paper | 10 | 2 Guarding the Community Administration from October to December 1941 | 12 | Carriages, a carriage to the cotton gin on the occasion of its opening ceremony | 2 | 1 A carriage for the Directorate | 12 | Coffee etc. Coffee | 10 | 2 Coffee | 12 | Car | 12 | Car | <del>12</del> | ⟦line⟧ Sundries and furniture (restoration) | 6 | 2 Upholstering a sofa | 6 | 4 Printing outside the department due to machine breakdown | 12 | Repairing the typewriter after it was broken | 8 | Restoration (complements) of chairs | 25 | .. Electricity (gasoline lamps) for the Slaughterhouse and Al-Midan markets | 8 | Cemetery expenses | 28 | 12 Only sixty-two rupees and ten annas, nothing else | 62 | 10 To the District Governor of Suwaira District Governor of Hayyaniyah ⟦signature⟧ 20/1/40
Volume: 68 Capital Secretariat: District: Qanbar Ali Guard Receipt: 10 Number: 106762 Property Number: 16 / 118 Anna: Rupee: 2 For the month of: June until December Received from the administration of the Israelite community three r⟦...⟧ Instead of 2 months on 6 / 11 year 1930 ⟦signature⟧ The Collector Amman
* The Court of Justice of the Holy City * Baghdad, may God protect it The Israelite Spiritual Court in Baghdad JEWISH RELIGIOUS COURT BAGHDAD ⟦line⟧ Number: Date: 15 ⟦illegible⟧ Year: 5691 To the excellence of the honor of the Sages and Rabbis of the community Honorable my lords I, the undersigned, request your Torah honors that you give me a certificate of bachelorhood because behold today ⟦illegible⟧ and by your honor's will The youth ⟦illegible⟧ Hugi Abdal Hai ⟦illegible⟧ Date ⟦illegible⟧ Number ⟦illegible⟧
Baghdad: 20 / 7 / 7 Hand receipt Anna Rupee ⟦line⟧ 10 / ten rupees only I have received from the Hakhambashi administration fund the amount recorded above only ten rupees and no more, and that is for providing electricity (gasoline lamps) for the nights of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur and accordingly I have signed this receipt on Signature of the recipient: ⟦signature⟧ Clear address: In person Murad Fattal
Baghdad: 20 / 10 / 30 Hand receipt Compensation Anna | Rupee - / 10 | Only ten and a half rupees I have received from the Hakham Bashi administration fund the above-mentioned amount Only ten and a half rupees, and that is for Extending an electrical wire to the printing office And accordingly, I have signed this receipt? Signature of the recipient: Nouri Nahoum Clear address: ⟦signature⟧
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Our going out on this day is evidence of our faith in our cause for the sake of God and the homeland, and we are fully prepared to give everything we possess for the sake of the lofty goals in which we believe And we declare to the whole world that we do not accept anything other than freedom and dignity as an alternative, and that we will continue our struggle until we achieve our goals which we have drawn for ourselves for the sake of freedom, dignity, and social justice ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ Municipal Council Administration - Baghdad: Number: 261 Date: 20 / 9 / 61 File Number: The second sheet, replacement for lost slaughterhouse [document] ⟦line⟧
Expenses of the Community Administration and the Schools Committee Item | Rupee | Tanwir Repairing electrical wires | | 2 Three ⟦...⟧ electric bulbs | | 4 | | 6 Stationery Paper <del>⟦illegible⟧</del> | | 2 Glue | | 10 Envelopes of the long size | | 2 Medium envelopes | | 12 Small | | 14 Thin white paper for copying on the typewriter | 4 | 1 | 4 12 stamps Stamps - Saltine | 4 | 8 Sugar, tea, etc. Half an oqqa of coffee | | 12 Sugar | | 4 Sugar loaf | | 4 Coffee | | 14 Cigarette | | 6 White lead | | 12 Coffee | | 14 Sugar loaf | | 8 Whistle | 6 | 7 Guarding the administration for the month of October 1920 | | 5 Gratuity to the administration guard on the occasion of the last Eid (a rupee for each one from Atat to the churches) | | 7 Gas, coal, and matches | | 4 Gas | 15 | 1 Matches | 2 | 7 Car fares for the Acting Hakham Bashi Remaining carriage fare | | 2 Carriage | | 8 "On the occasion of the opening of Health Week" | | 12 Carriage to the Justice Department | | 8 To attend the opening of the National Assembly | 8 | 7 | 14 270 by hand | 5 | 11 These expenses are specific to the Schools Committee
22/11/21 Disbursed to the Haham Bashi during the Master's visit on the occasion of his greeting at the administration "sweets, cigarettes, sodas" For guarding the cemetery ⟦illegible⟧ <del>and interrogations</del> That it ⟦illegible⟧ 11 <del>⟦illegible⟧</del> what preceded it ⟦line⟧ 2 26 Unacceptable expenses ⟦line⟧ 7 2 4 1 Goods and furniture 8 60 4 14 2 Washer for the bicycle 4 Two towels 4 Two water jugs 4 For the towels ⟦line⟧ Only sixty rupees and a half, no more ⟦signature⟧ 2/11/21
Baghdad: 22 / 7 / 20 Hand receipt 2/- Rupees Anna, only two rupees and no more I have received from the fund of the Hakham Bashi administration the amount noted above Only two rupees and no more, and that is for The holiday gratuity "Sukkot" And accordingly, I have signed this receipt Signature of the recipient: Clear address: Guard of the community administration neighborhood ⟦fingerprint⟧
Baghdad: 22 / 10 / 20 Hand receipt Anna Rupee -/20 Only two rupees I have received from the Hakhambashi administration fund the amount recorded above Only two rupees and no more, and that is for Repairing electrical wires And accordingly I have signed this receipt Signature of the recipient: Fakhri Nasser Clear address: Fakhri Nasser Fakhri Nasser
Administration of the Lay Council of the Israelite Community Baghdad Number :: Date :: 22 / 10 / 930 Honorable Secretary The expenses, as shown in the attached list, have reached one hundred and seventeen and a half rupees, meaning that the reserve fund has been exhausted and I have also borrowed against it. If you agree, it is best to organize a manual resolution for this amount because we are in dire need of various expenditures. ⟦signature⟧ Urgent Organize a manual resolution for the list 22 / 10 / 930
Community Administration Expenses These expenses were organized and collected before the holiday It | Lighting | 24 | 8 | Electricity bill dated 20 / 7 / 17 | | | Water and guarding | 8 | .. | Repairing the water pipe "see attached receipt" | | | Guarding for the month of September 1940 | 5 | .. | Water for the three months October, November, and December 1940 | 7 | 8 | ⟦line⟧ | 20 | 8 | Furniture and necessities | 20 | 8 | Soap | 6 | | Relations | 8 | | Porter for house furniture to the upper floor | 1 | .. | ⟦line⟧ | 14 | | Tea, coffee, etc. | 14 | | Coffee | 6 | | Cigarettes | 10 | | Sherbet | 2 | | Ice | 6 | | Cigarettes | 2 | 6 | Carriages | 7 | 6 | The Rabbi's two trips to the Fawi Palace | | | Registered airmail letter to Lebanon | | | Stamps | 20 | .. | Stamp for the General Secretariat petition to hold a concert in ⟦...⟧ | 12 | | Stamp for the petition to postpone service indefinitely | 8 | | Another stamp for the "Schools Committee" petition | 8 | | Letter to Salim | 2 | | Submitting the Schools Committee reports to the General Directorate of Schools | 4 | | Letters to Shahraban, Surmaniya, and Diyala | 2 | | ⟦line⟧ | 2 | 5 | Spraying the cemetery | 20 | | Gratuities | 20 | .. | To Shaul Abu al-Arda "the Koshary seller" | 5 | .. | Addition to the chairs for Karmi Sassoon "the President" | 5 | .. | Gratuity for the doorman of each Muhammad | 10 | .. | ⟦line⟧ | 20 | .. | What follows it | 102 | 9
It is a Rupee provision 9 102 Stationery 5 8 4 1 ⟦line⟧ 6 15 9 5 ⟦line⟧ 8 / 117 List of stationery provided by the stationery seller Envelopes " " Assistance to a Turkish immigrant (given by order of the President) Only one hundred and seventeen rupees and a half, nothing else 26/10/26 Shihab
Baghdad: 22 September 1920 Hand Receipt Rupees 80 - Only eight rupees annas I have received from the treasury of the Haham Bashi administration the amount recorded above Only eight rupees and no more, and that is for repairing the water pipes belonging to the administration of the Jewish Community And accordingly, I have signed this receipt Signature of the recipient: ⟦signature⟧ Clear address: Reda Muhammad Pipe repair contractor ⟦illegible⟧
No.: 79 Number: ⟦illegible⟧ Received a Registered *: Letter Received ⟦line⟧ registered: Addressed to: M. Dupont Addressed to: Value of Stamps affixed (if a parcel) Rs.: As.: Rupee value of the affixed stamps (if it was a parcel) Anna: Date-Stamp. ⟦illegible⟧ 28 APR 19 Date stamp *Write Letter, Postcard, Packet, or Parcel as case may be Enter "Letter" bundle or "Parcel" as the case may be FOR INSURED ARTICLES. Insured items: Insured for Rs. (in figures): Insured for an amount of Rupee (in figures): in words: in letters: Insurance fee: Insurance fee: Weight in words: Weight in letters: ⟦illegible signature⟧ Receiving Officer. Receiving Officer
STAEDTLER'S IMPROVED Elephant PENCILS J. S. STAEDTLER BAVARIA HB "Elephant" ELEPHANT STAEDTLER 1 TRADE MARK 19: ⟦line⟧ M: The Respected Israelite Community Bought of: Rupees Annas Envelopes ⟦...⟧ with clips per packet | 0 | 15 Machine transfer paper per ream | 0 | 6 Ink bottles | 7 | 2 Desk paper pens | 0 | 14 Desk paper portfolio | 0 | 8 Carbon per packet | 2 | 4 Only eight rupees and five annas | 8 | 5 Received the amount in cash 2/10/⟦...⟧ ⟦illegible⟧
Baghdad: 1 October 1940 Hand-delivered receipt Rupees: 10/- Anna: Only ten rupees and no more I have received from the treasury of the Hacham Bashi administration the amount noted above Only ten rupees and no more And that is for the Sukkot holiday gratuity Accordingly, I have signed this receipt Signature of the recipient: ⟦fingerprint⟧ Clear address: Gul Muhammad Doorman of the Community Administration
Baghdad: 5 October 1921 Hand receipt Anna: — Rupees: 5/— only five rupees no more I have received from the fund of the Hakhambashi administration the amount mentioned above only five rupees no more and that is for The technical honorarium (connected) ⟦line⟧ And accordingly I have signed this receipt Signature of the recipient: ⟦line⟧ Clear address: Shaul Abu al-Dunya ⟦fingerprint stamp⟧
Baghdad: 2 October 1932 Hand receipt Anna: — Rupee: 30/— Only thirty rupees and no more I have received from the treasury of the Hakhambashi administration the amount recorded above Only thirty rupees and no more, and that is for Sprinkling the cemetery on the occasions of the holidays of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur POSTAGE & REVENUE Post and Service Financial REVENUE 1 ANNA Iraq IRAQ 1 2 October 1932 And accordingly, I have signed this receipt Signature of the recipient: ⟦signature⟧ Clear address: Mahmoud al-Barrak Cemetery guard