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100 Fils 2/15 Construction Map 5143 ⟦illegible⟧ 122 14/3/56 ⟦signature⟧ 15/3/56
IJA 3303
Correspondence, Receipts, Student Files, Records of Property Owned, Baghdadi Jewish Community
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These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. There is correspondence from the 1930s-1940s between the Jewish Lay Council, Jewish Hospitals Committee and various school administrations. Other documents include court cases, requests for financial help, and deeds and property records owned by the Baghdadi Jewish community. There are also architectural drawing plans, contracts, and correspondence discussing price negotiations. This is followed by student files from the 1960s, containing individual student records, exam scores, student certifications, admissions forms, letters of recommendation, photographs, and correspondence regarding student affairs. There is a printed booklet notating a teachers’ school service record from 1944. There are collections of receipts from the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews, the South British Insurance Company, the Rafidain Insurance Company, various local vendors and taxi services, pharmacies, utilities, as well as rosters of patient information and correspondence from the Ministry of Culture of Iranian Schools in Iraq.
AI English Translation, Pages 26-50
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Construction map for property No. ⟦445/1⟧ located in Al-Qishla district, comprising three shops and a staircase to the upper floor Scale = 1 : 100 Private road Staircase Status after construction T 119 T 22/1 Shop Shop Shop 252/1 Public road Private road T 119 T 22/1 Area Square meters 52.28 T 475/1 252/1 Public road Number 8000 Based on what was stated in the report organized by the Head of the Jewish Community, certified by the Notary Public for North Baghdad under general number 4196 and dated 18 / 5 / 952 The Council decided, pursuant to paragraph eleven of its decision dated May 20, 952 to approve the construction of its property T 475/1 located in Al-Qishla district, consisting of shops and a staircase to the upper floor, provided it does not exceed the indicated boundaries and applies the subdivision of the area in the map, which is listed in the community's ownership register, with a facade of five linear meters, and fees are paid to the Secretariat of the Capital for favor of certification of the status of this map 135 / 8 / 58 ⟦stamp with portrait⟧ Mayor of the Capital The inspection was completed with certification on 12 / 5 / 952 Engineer of the State Technical Division
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49977 North W W —|— E S Baghdad Al-Qishla Quarter Scale 1/200 Public Road Area Square Meter 57.28 5.70 Private Road Organized according to the inspection report Dated 7/27/949 Scale 1/200 Given the layout of this map, the area of the shape equals fifty-three square meters and twenty-eight square centimeters Area Register 13429 Drawn from the original map numbered 628 for Baghdad at the Engineering Department Land Registry of Baghdad Province. Draftsman | Editor | Inspection Officer | Chief Engineer This map was copied on 12/16/950 and verified by the Secretary of the Community on 12/21/950 Notes Signature ⟦illegible⟧
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77333 Public Street Alleyway Property North South East West 7.5 10.5 12.5 Division of the Khadhuri House building No. 717/171 in 124 1/200 Drawing Scale ⟦scale bar drawing⟧ Note: This area is the net area that remains for construction after cutting a portion of the land area for the road on August 10 1933 This building was divided by the Municipality Engineer at the time Engineer ⟦illegible⟧ Servant of the Municipality Engineer Baghdad 1933/8/10 No. 121 in the Land Registry for the year 1933 p. 121 in the Permanent Registry as property
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49977 75 Fils S 22/1 Public Road Number 425/1 Area Square Meter 5728 119 Private Road North A Q ⟦line⟧ 254/1 25 Fils Organized according to the inspection report Dated 22 / 7 / 1949 Baghdad Al-Qishla District Scale 1/200 Scale ⟦line⟧ 10 5 0 10 20 Due to the status of this map, the area of Number ⟦illegible⟧ is three hundred and fifty square meters and eight 425/1 and twenty square decimeters Area Register 7429 Drawn from the original map numbered 628 for the Architecture Department of the Tapu Engineering of Baghdad Province Muhammad Drawing Muhammad Al-Hasani Ibrahim Lutfi Inspection Officer Khaz'al Supplying Engineer
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Amanat Al-Asimah ⟦line⟧ Accounts ⟦line⟧ Number 4 / 6619 Date 28 / 5 / 1959 Directorate of Tapu, Baghdad Province Subject - Expropriation Compensation We are sending to you, via the bearer, check number 420292 in the amount of 1918/200 Dinars representing the expropriation compensation for property number 2/101, sequence 425, number 2/167 Al-Qishla neighborhood. Please, upon receipt of the check, register the aforementioned property in the name of Amanat Al-Asimah, then pay the compensation to the concerned parties and provide us with an official receipt confirming receipt of the amount in accordance with the regulations. Mayor of the Capital Copy to: Governorate of Baghdad Province General Directorate of Revenues (Property Tax) Engineer of the First Technical Division " " " Third Director of Accounts (Banking Division) Electricity Company to cut the electrical current, if any Water Supply Committee to cut the water flow - if any The concerned parties 1/2001
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Amanat al-Asima (Mayoralty of the Capital) Baghdad 3 / 5252 (Technical Authority) 212 / 47 22 / 7 ⟦logo with palm and tiger⟧ November 947: Date: Directorate of Land Registry of Baghdad Province Subject - Value of buildings ⟦line⟧ Further to our letter No. 4 / 4420 dated February 23, 947 The amount sent to you by check No. 279721 amounting to 450/- Dinars and 900/- Dinars is for the value of the buildings that were removed from the two Torah schools with sequence numbers 122 and 435 in Al-Qishla neighborhood and not for the value of the land, so please pay it to the owner of the two mentioned properties. As for the land, we are carrying out the expropriation process for it separately. Mayor of the Capital Copy to - / Head of the Jewish Community - with reference to your petition No. 343 dated 23 / 7 / 947 File H / 2031 Presidency of the Jewish Community Baghdad Special Number ⟦illegible⟧ Date ⟦illegible⟧ A / 5 / 11
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Capital Secretariat Number ⟦illegible⟧ / 3 (Technical Authority) ⟦illegible⟧ Date: March / 947 Presidency of the Jewish Community Subject - Receipt of compensation payment The compensation payment for the buildings scheduled for demolition from the Torahs sequence 435 Located in the Al-Qishl neighborhood, amounting to 900/- Dinars, has been sent to the Land Registry Directorate of Baghdad Province under our letter number 4 / 4420 dated 23 / 2 / 947, so please refer to them and receive the amount from them and proceed with demolishing the buildings and removing the debris within fifteen days from the date the mentioned amount was sent to the Land Registry Directorate. Upon the expiration of the mentioned period and your failure to carry out the demolition and removal of debris, this department will demolish them and remove them directly and take the debris for itself in exchange for the demolition costs. Mayor of the Capital Copy to -/ Chief Engineer Engineer of the First Technical Section " " " Third Shorja / 33 A O / 3 / 1 ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible handwriting in red ink⟧
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Capital Secretariat Number 2222 (Technical Authority) ⟦logo⟧ Date: 22 October / 946 His Excellency the Head of the Honorable Jewish Community Subject - Implementation of a design We inform you that the Secretariat Council decided on 31 December 944 to implement the street that connects King Ghazi Street with the end of Shorja Market immediately in accordance with the provisions of Article Nine of the Roads and Buildings Regulation No. 44 of 1935 and its amendments. We are sending herewith a map marked with the section that will be affected by the cutting from the Torah [Synagogue] numbered sequence 435 located in the Torah neighborhood with a copy of the experts' report on compensation for what was decided to be demolished, and you have the right to object to the amount within seven days from the date of your receipt of this letter. Mayor of the Capital Copy to -/ Engineer of the First Technical Division Sh / 33 ⟦A O⟧ ⟦illegible stamp⟧
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⟦illegible stamp with two portraits⟧ This copy is identical to its record, and a sum of 50 fils has been collected as the registration fee, and it was recorded as revenue under number 748 and dated May 9 ⟦illegible⟧ from the daily ledger. Registrar of Records and Entries ⟦signature⟧ Method of Disposition: (The entire mentioned house according to the Sharia decree issued by the Sharia Court in Baghdad numbered 1182 and dated November 21, 1944, and certified by the Presidency of the Court of Cassation under number 597 and dated December 12, 1944) Descriptions: A residential house built of brick and gypsum Transferred from which ledger: ⟦blank⟧ Volume: ⟦blank⟧ Registration Date: ⟦blank⟧ Registration Number: 16 Value: Dinar ⟦blank⟧ Fils ⟦blank⟧ | Consideration: Dinar ⟦blank⟧ Fils ⟦blank⟧ Status of the Deed: ⟦blank⟧ Map Number: ⟦blank⟧ Category: House | Type: Waqf | Land Class: ⟦blank⟧ Boundaries: East: House of Ibrahim Cohen 119 | West: House of Isaac Cohen 242 | North: House of Isaac Cohen | South: House of Isaac Cohen Abstract Rights and Acknowledgments: ⟦blank⟧ Area: 54 Square Meters | Olak ⟦blank⟧ | Donum ⟦blank⟧ Area Name: Taht al-Takiya Quarter | District Name: ⟦blank⟧ | District Number: ⟦blank⟧ | Plot Number: ⟦blank⟧ | Doors or Side Number: ⟦blank⟧ | Share Number: 4/24 | Sector: ⟦blank⟧ Village or Quarter: Taht al-Takiya Quarter | Sub-district: ⟦blank⟧ | District: Baghdad | Province: Baghdad Details of Tapu Records: Registration Date: ⟦blank⟧ Volume: ⟦blank⟧ Registration Number: 12 Special form for record copies printed at the Government Press Tapu Form (37)
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79405 Volume Number Accounting 137 Receipts for Dirhams collected for the government Serial Number: 41 Fils/Dinar: 800 Department Name: ⟦illegible⟧ Community Received from: Presidency of the Jewish Community Amount: Eight hundred fils On account of: Inspection Date: 18 / 7 / 949 Not with ⟦illegible⟧ Signature of the Receiver ⟦signature⟧ Job Title Aboud
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NAME: ⟦illegible⟧ D. & ⟦illegible⟧
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122 Correspondence with the Administration of the Corporeal Council From: ⟦line⟧ 19⟦line⟧ to: ⟦line⟧ 19⟦line⟧ Address From 19 19 Importet by Haji Ezra Menéchi, Bagdad in Germany
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Committee 22 / 8 / 70 To the Honorable Vice President of the Physical Council After offering respects, With reference to the petition of Tuffaha, the wife of the deceased Shamil, who was employed at the Midrash, We inform you that upon reviewing his case, it became clear to the committee that the deceased served in the Midrash for a period exceeding sixty years of faithful service, and he left behind seven young children. Therefore, it was decided to grant his wife and children a monthly aid of 1.125 Dinars for a period of one year only. Respectfully yours; ⟦signature⟧ Secretary
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Committee 10 August 932 Honorable Chairman of the Hospitals Committee With reference to your letter numbered 53 and dated the 4th of this month. We inform you that our committee has notified the director of the Midrash school of the necessity of moving the clinic to a room larger than the current room and organizing it as required; ⟦Yassin⟧ Secretary
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Telephone No. 6 Founders of the Medical House Society - Baghdad Telephone Number JEWISH HOSPITALS COMMITTEE Jewish Hospitals Committee (Meir Elias Hospital, Rimah Khedouri Eyes (Meir Elias Hospital and Rimah Khedouri Eye Hospital Hospital & Dar-el-Shifa Pharmacy.) and Dar-el-Shifa Pharmacy.) BAGHDAD. Baghdad Established / Established: 1884 / 1884 No. / Number: Date / Date: 4 August 1933 Subject / Subject: To the Honorable President of the Midrash Committee After greetings. Since Heskel Effendi Salman Mushir, one of the committee members, inspected the Midrash clinic and submitted a report regarding the clinic room, the committee requests the allocation of a second room with a larger area than the current room, to be painted and arranged in an orderly manner, as the existing room is absolutely insufficient for the purpose. Respectfully yours. ⟦signature⟧ Secretary of the Hospitals Committee
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JEWISH LAY COUNCIL BAGHDAD Lay Council * Baghdad Administration of the Lay Council of the Israelite Community Baghdad No. / Number :: 2216 Date / Date :: 27 July 1933 Subject: Regarding teachers' requests to the school administration To the Honorable Presidency of the Schools Committee Reference to your letter dated 19 July 1933 In view of the status of the Council's fund, our Council decided in its session held on 25 / 7 / 1933 to apologize for not being able to grant either of your two requests regarding the advance of three months' allocations or covering part of the accumulated requests. However, it decided to recommend your honorable committee to exert the utmost effort to settle the teachers' requests by prioritizing those with large claims over others, and that the committee itself shall undertake the disbursement of allocations to the employees; ⟦signature⟧ Vice President of the Lay Council
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Administration of the Lay Council of the Israelite Community Baghdad Lay Council - Baghdad JEWISH LAY COUNCIL BAGHDAD No: 2200 Date: July 25, 1933 Subject: Midrash Examinations Presidency of the Midrash Committee, Baghdad The original petition submitted by the teachers of the Midrash School division regarding the final examinations is referred to your esteemed committee. Please note that we are inclined to grant the request of the aforementioned teachers and treat them like the rest of the teachers in other schools. Sincerely; ⟦signature⟧ Vice President of the Lay Council
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To the Honorable President of the Physical Council Greetings and respect: It is not hidden from your presence that the Israeli sectarian schools have finished their final exams and that the Study School has not started yet, especially the advanced section which applied the curriculum to the letter and which does not differ from the rest of the schools in anything. Therefore, we have come to ask your presence to agree that we start the exam as of the beginning of next week, and we thank you. July 21, 1922 On behalf of the teachers of the Study School section Referred to the Honorable Examination Committee for consideration and to inform us of its decision in this regard. The Secretary 21 / 7 / 922 Urgent I see no justification for this delay in commencing the exams alongside the advanced sections for them. I suggest that the school starts immediately. 21 / 7 / 1922 The Schools Committee had decided not to interfere in the affairs of the Study School due to the impossibility of applying the decisions that include all other schools, and therefore I suggest that we do not interfere in this matter. Elia His Excellency the Vice President. It appears from the explanation of Mr. Elia attached herewith that there is no desire to interfere in this case, and therefore I see it necessary for the Council to intervene if its motive is the role played by the Council in its capacity as general supervisor over the conduct of examinations in the advanced section at least or the rest of the Studies Committee ⟦beautifies⟧ and the opinion the first is the most likely 22 / 7 / 1922 ⟦illegible⟧
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Schools Committee Baghdad, dated July 25, 1933 To His Excellency the President of the Honorable Lay Council After respect, I request that the check for school allocations be issued in the names of Khedhouri Tweig and Yameen Murad. With respect, Chairman of the Committee ⟦illegible⟧
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JEWISH LAY COUNCIL BAGHDAD Lay Council * Baghdad Administration of the Lay Council of the Israelite Community Baghdad No. Number: 2184 Date: 16 July 1933 Subject: Presidency of the Schools Committee Enclosed you will find the original letter received from the Principal of Rachel Shahmoon School No. 127 dated 10 July 1933 for your kind consideration of the proposal contained therein, which I hope will be promoted as much as possible due to the benefit expected from it. In the event that any decision is taken in this regard, I request that the approval of the Properties Committee be obtained, ⟦illegible⟧ Vice President of the Lay Council A copy of it to the Principal of Rachel Shahmoon School for information
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RAHEL SHAHMOON SCHOOL Rahel Shahmoon School Number: 127 No.: Baghdad on: July 10, 1922 Baghdad: 19 Excellency The Honorable Vice President of the Lay Council Greetings and respect It is no secret to your Excellency that our school is almost too narrow for its students and is crowded to an extent unparalleled in other schools. Official primary schools in Baghdad do not exceed one hundred and twenty or one hundred and fifty students, while our school includes such a number in a single one of its classes, a matter which has made us think long and hard about solving this issue out of fear for the students' health and out of mercy for them from dizziness and diseases, especially during examination times when we are forced to seat them in one place in a state of tightness and crowding. Today an opportunity has arisen for us which we present to your esteemed council for consideration and to give a decision for its implementation as soon as possible. Exactly opposite the school there is a ruined place that has long been a focal point for filth and dirt thrown into it from neighboring houses, and the Capital Secretariat recently ordered the demolition of its walls. This property belongs to the endowments of the Midrash School and the Mandili Prayer Hall; it can be leveled and leased for our account for a small amount to be used as a place for examinations and a hall for lectures and anthems, so that we may thereby relieve the severe overcrowding of the school. This is what we wanted to present to your Excellency, and we have firm hope that you will appreciate this vital issue. Respectfully yours, School Principal ⟦Nassim⟧ This letter is to be sent to the Midrash Committee with a recommendation <del>⟦illegible⟧</del> ⟦...⟧ ⟦...⟧
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Date July 9, 1933 Honorable Vice President of the Respected Lay Council It is not hidden from you that the employees of the Midrash schools are demanding the salaries accumulated from five months to fifteen months, and most of them are poor and needy, and in every week several petitions are submitted to us from them requesting assistance, and we have deliberated on their case many times, but we saw no choice but to request assistance from your respected council by ordering the payment of a portion of the Midrash claims that are on the community fund, or that you pay us the allocations for the three months of July, August, and September in advance so that we can manage the administration. Our committee has appointed one of its members, Yamin Murad, to attend your respected council for deliberation on this matter, the budget, and the new deficit. With much respect; The President ⟦illegible⟧
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Dated July 16, 1933 To the Honorable Vice President of the Physical Council With reference to your letter No. 2366 dated June 21, 1933, I attach herewith the required budget for the year 1933/34. We hope for its approval. Respectfully yours; Secretary ⟦signature⟧