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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 English Translation, Pages 851-875

Archival unit 851

⟦illegible⟧ Department
50 / 2498
9 / 8 / 1950
Moshe Hayyim Meir As⟦line⟧lan
Miss Madeline Khedhouri Daoud Sal⟦line⟧em
The sixth of August of the year one thousand nine hundred and fif⟦line⟧ty
⟦illegible⟧
Miss Madeline Khedhouri Daoud Salem
The sixth of August of the year one thousand nine hundred and fifty
AD ⟦line⟧
⟦illegible signature⟧
Acting Head of the Community
President of the Lay Council
⟦illegible signature⟧
⟦illegible signature⟧
9/8/8

Archival unit 852

The Official in Charge of ⟦Isr⟧aelite Burial Affairs
Baghdad
⟦line⟧ Baghdad on ⟦line⟧
Presidency of the Israelite Community
Baghdad
After greetings
Based on the entries recorded in my registers, I hereby certify that
the named ⟦Yitzhak David Menashe⟧ died in Baghdad
on the ⟦17th⟧ day of the month of ⟦Tammuz⟧ in the year ⟦94⟧
(17/7/1924) and for this reason I have signed below
⟦signature⟧
2/9
⟦Yitzhak David⟧
⟦Menashe⟧
Heskel Haddad
The Official in Charge of Israelite Burial Affairs
⟦Yitzhak David Menashe⟧
⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧

Archival unit 853

50 / 2 / 499
8 / 9 / 1950
Death Certificate
Based on the certificate of the person in charge of burial matters in the Jewish cemetery
in Baghdad, we hereby confirm that the named Yaqub Ezra Mathlon died in
Baghdad on the seventeenth day of July in the year one thousand nine hundred and thirty-
four AD ⟦line⟧
Acting Head of the Community
Head of the Lay Council
⟦illegible⟧
The
⟦illegible⟧
8 / 9 / 1

Archival unit 854

I certify the contents of this certificate
The Mukhtar
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
The Mukhtar
40 Fils
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧

Archival unit 855

After greetings
We, the undersigned ⟦illegible⟧, hereby certify that Mr.
was born in ⟦illegible⟧ on the day
And for this purpose we have signed ⟦line⟧
Baghdad on 7 / 8 / 1950
Witness
⟦illegible⟧

Archival unit 856

9th August          50
BIRTH CERTIFICATE
⟦illegible⟧stimonials presented, I hereby
⟦illegible⟧ION SHASHOU was born at Baghdad
⟦illegible⟧en hundred & twenty seven A. D. ).
⟦signature⟧
Ofg. President,
Jewish Community Baghdad.
President,
Jewish Lay Council Baghdad.
Request

Archival unit 857

⟦illegible⟧ bring me from it ⟦illegible⟧
⟦line⟧
⟦illegible⟧

Archival unit 858

We recorded at a price
⟦illegible⟧ its right to us
⟦illegible⟧ in the year of
⟦illegible⟧ in ⟦illegible⟧
⟦line⟧ the scope on every
1/8/0521 in ⟦illegible⟧
In the name of ⟦line⟧