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IJA 1442

Lease Information, Baghdadi Jewish Community

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Description

These are archival documents containing correspondence from the President of the Jewish Community to the Midrash Committee requesting endowment-related information such as leaseholder names, names of property owners, lease termination dates, and ledgers containing names, monetary information, and citizenship information. It also includes: handwritten calculations; a letter from the head of Lay Council to the head of Midrash Committee regarding the institute's revenues, expenses, verification of lease information, and an inventory list of leased properties.

Metadata

Archive Reference
IJA 1442
Item Number
11448
Date
Approx. January 1, 1951 to December 31, 1960
Languages
Arabic
Keywords
Endowment, Financial, Jewish Lay Council, Correspondence, Baghdadi Jewish Community, Abrogation of Citizenship, Annotation, President of the Jewish Community, Handwritten, Ledger, Legal, Midrash Committee, Typed, Citizenship Laws, Midrash Talmud Torah

AI en Translation, Pages 1-25

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11 Year's imports to extinguish old debts Surat Hanun 500 ⟦illegible⟧
To extinguish a portion of our claim against him
Reserve account <del>heirs of Nasim Aziz</del> ⟦illegible⟧
210/253 Extinguishing old debts Surat Hanun
292/110 Osama Torah students ✓
546/100 Tips or sundries ✓
268/542 Miscellaneous salaries (storekeeper) ✓
⟦illegible⟧ account ⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧ Value ⟦illegible⟧
Adjustment of income from his house and its location in Surat Hanun
745/279 Balance remaining on the mentioned person until September 20, 1949
445/026 with Avi account September 50
310/253 Installment for the year 49 - 500 to extinguish dead debts
445/026 with account
745/279
49
Account ⟦illegible⟧

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Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad:
Telephone Number: 3531 / 5452
Number: 1810/51
Date: 4/9/1951
Subject:
Presidency of the Midrash Committee
After greetings,
As all the Midrash students have been stripped of their Iraqi citizenship, which led to the suspension of studies
at the Midrash Institute, and since the guardianship over the endowments, properties, and affairs of the Midrash is the President of the Secular Council in Baghdad,
therefore, we request that you provide the following:
1 - The final accounts of revenues and expenses up to the current year, year 5105, i.e., until 3/31/1951
2 - A detailed list of the properties belonging to the Midrash, showing:
a - The numbers and locations of these properties.
b - Their type (house or shop).
c - The name of the tenant.
d - The amount of rent, whether monthly or annually.
e - The expiration date of the lease period.
f - A statement of the remaining rent owed by the current tenant.
g - A statement of unleased properties (if any).
Please accept our highest respects.
⟦signature⟧
Acting President of the Community
President of the Secular Council

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Sequence | Property Number | Number of Branches | Property Type | Quarter | Tenant Name | Rent Amount Fils | Rent Amount Dinars | Duration | Rent Expiration Date | Paid Amount Fils | Paid Amount Dinars | Unpaid Installments | Remarks
82 | 917 C | 144 | Shop | Banu Allah | <del>Hussein Abdul Latif</del> Jassim Mohammed |  | 6 | 3 Months | 20 August 951 |  |  |  |
83 | 917 C | " | Shop | " " | Shabib Menachem |  | 10 | 3 Months | <del>20 October 951</del> 20 April 952 |  | 4 |  |
84 | 44 | 1 | Shop | Jadid Siyon Shubbar Kanh | Abdul Jalil Jibrail |  | 75 | Year | 31 January 952 |  |  |  |
85 | 46 | 1 | " | " |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| 47 | 1 | Apartment and Traveler Inn | " | Rosie Haj Allawi |  | 1100 | Year | 31 March 952 |  |  |  |
| 48 | 1 | Shop | " | Razooqi Faraj and Yusuf Basson |  | 50 | Year | " |  |  |  |
86 | 50 | 1 | " | Jadid Siyon |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
87 | 7 | 12 | " | " " | Ahmed Al-Yaji |  | 2 | Monthly |  |  |  |  | Vacant
88 | 19 | " | " | " " | Hassan Baqir |  | 25 | Monthly | 20 August 951 |  | 8 |  |
89 | 21 | " | " | " " | Ali Kabdan the Barber |  | 50 | Monthly | 20 September 951 |  | 50 |  |
90 | 22 | " | " | " " |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
91 | 25 | " | Ruin | " " | Taha Al-Hussein Al-Badri |  | 80 | Year | 30 November 48 |  | 25 |  |
92 | 25 | " | Booth | " " | Subhi Abdul Qadir |  | 220 | Year | 31 March 51 |  | 122 |  |
93 | 21 | " | Restaurant | " " | Sabri Naoum Abdul Karim |  | 120 | Year | 4 April 51 |  |  |  |
94 | 29 | " | Pharmacy | " " |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
A sum of approximately one Dinar must be spent on the renovation of the mentioned property as this rent ⟦...⟧ allowance from the original rent
X one of the adjacent shops has ⟦...⟧ year ⟦...⟧ 1/4/1952 and the rent has been paid until March 951
Rent is received while the shop is abandoned and unoccupied as it is with the barber
Endowed by court order regarding the land of Haqqi Al-Hummar for the Orphans' Union
By virtue of a promissory note due on 1 Amani 48, noting that he left the mentioned residence and did not pay the rent for a year
By virtue of a promissory note, it is not payable because it is known that he has a cancelled promissory note also for the mentioned year of 220 Dinars