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IJA 3318

Verification Certificates, Employee Recommendations, Baghdadi Jewish Community

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Description

These are documents, including correspondence, from the Baghdadi Jewish community. Included are birth, marriage, divorce, and death certificates as well as letters of recommendations for former employees of the Jewish community. Some certificates are written in English; when in Arabic, the certificates often list the names in Hebrew.

Metadata

Archive Reference
IJA 3318
Item Number
15853
Date
Approx. January 1, 1941 to December 31, 1950
Languages
Multiple Languages
Keywords
Jewish Lay Council, Divorce Certificate, Baghdadi Jewish Community, Correspondence, Judeo-Arabic, Annotation, President of the Jewish Community, Revenue Stamp, Birth Certificates, Handwritten, Legal, Ink Stamp, Spiritual Council, Death Certificate, Typed, Cemetery, Marriage Certificates, Letterhead

AI en Translation, Pages 851-875

Page 851

9th August          50
⟦B⟧IRTH CERTIFICATE
⟦Based on the te⟧stimonials presented, I hereby
⟦certify that SION SHASHOU was born at Baghdad
⟦in nineteen hundred & twenty seven A. D. ).
⟦signature⟧
Ofg. President,
Jewish Community Baghdad.
President,
Jewish Lay Council Baghdad.
Request