Description
These are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community. They contain correspondence regarding marriages, divorces, civil disputes; the birthday celebrations of the Iraqi king, responses to inquires about the treatment of Iraqi Jews under Iraq’s citizenship laws, the history of Jews in Iraq, and the provision of Jewish artifacts to the Iraqi Museum. There are receipts for furniture stores and other vendors, invoices; budget allocations, deficits, and planning for various community organizations and institutions; ritual slaughtering administration, names of butchers with the numbers of animals slaughtered, names of community organization members, ledgers of payments for goods or fees, building plans, provisions for school children, concerns over hospital food distribution, blanket distribution to the poor, receptions, meetings, shipment orders, import and export of goods, the care of orphans, and a census on the number of synagogues in Baghdad in 1945 (40). There are copies of a printed text titled “Appeal to Save the Children.” Letters include: the President of the Jewish Community to the Controller of Foodstuffs in Baghdad thanking the Controller for the allotment of sugar and tea for the students at the Rahel Shamoon School; addressing complaints at the Meir Elias Hospital in Baghdad; purchasing blankets for the poor via the Poor Welfare Society; sending money rather than clothes from an importer in New York City to the poor in Baghdad since clothing costs have gone up.
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JEWISH CHARITABLE Jewish Charitable Society Press Jewish Charitable Society Press
SOCIETY PRESS, Baghdad Baghdad
BAGHDAD Baghdad
ESTABLISHED Under the Takia No. 32/115
1929 Established in the year 1929
Dated, Date: 17 / 8 / 7
To: The Presidency of the Jewish Community
Notes | Number | Type of Publications | Rupee | Anna
| 6 X 14.6 Books | Value of chicken slaughter tax books | |
| | Only two dinars and eight hundred and seventy-five fils | |
| | Please accept our many thanks | |
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Blood/Price 6 dunams of Miri land near Baghdad inside the wall
for 10000 Dirhams and this treasury/storage Ramla 86 men fur 1881
Marum D. Al-Darwish and Tariq 112 P- and upon 2000 Dirhams
and year 1871 Muruwwad inside the wall 7 papers for 6 men year
and Tariq Al-Sur 2000 Dirhams at 24 Dirhams per dunam and between
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The Chief Rabbi of the city of
Baghdad, may God protect it
Chief Rabbi of Baghdad Benjamin Hakham Moshi
CHIEF RABBI
BENJAMIN H. MOSHI
Baghdad
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Number: 205
Date: 8/ ⟦illegible⟧ 695
Our friend Mr. Hakham Sasson David Mr. Shmuel
May his light shine
Grandson of Mr. Menachem (may his light shine) Mr. Shmuel (may his light shine)
Kosher Mr. Kamin
Before the signature of Mr. Shalom Mr. Yitzhak Baghdad Mr. Nissim 95 in Kislev 695 permission
Mr. Raphael and his companion ⟦...⟧ Mr. Menachem 205 and they placed upon me an obligation ⟦illegible⟧ Shimon Karfi to the memory of Mr. Menachem
Upon all permission to Yerachmiel Pela and he returned from day to day that Mr. Kippur Hazan wanted in Cohen
Today 6 Shevat 696 to him a decree from the day of the signature of six receipts that they gave ⟦...⟧ in the mouth of ritual slaughterers
And after the completion of Mr. Shalom Mr. Yitzhak Mr. Cohen and if he returns every complete day ⟦illegible⟧ Kippur
Mr. Ritual Slaughterers shall receive their punishment from the Rabbis and his permission as signed
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The Chief Rabbi of Iraq
Baghdad, may God protect it
Chief Rabbi of Baghdad Benjamin Hakham Moshi
CHIEF RABBI
BENJAMIN H. MOSHI
Baghdad
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Number: 204
Date: 8 Adar [5]695
Our friend Mr. Hakham Sasson Nissim [son of] Mr. Shlomo
And the seal of Mr. Abraham [son of] Mr. Isaac [son of] Mr. Abraham
Kosher [son of] Mr. Kadosh
You three who were present on the day of 24/9/14
Mentioned well among you, two gold [pieces] in Sharia, likewise ⟦95⟧/Adar in the house of the Rabbinate
Which we contracted on the same day, let it be in your minds at all times
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The Chief Rabbi of the Holy City
Baghdad, may God protect it
Chief Rabbi of Baghdad Benjamin Hakham Moshi
CHIEF RABBI
BENJAMIN H. MOSHI
Baghdad
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Number: 206
Date: 8 / <del>⟦illegible⟧</del> 695
Designating for Hakham Sassoon Kadoorie for signature
Here for Abraham for Isaac for Isaiah 200
Kosher for Passover
To the honor of the exalted government regarding the slaughterers and the treasurers
They shall honor the signature of the Hakham on the authority of the treasurer to invite their distribution today and tomorrow
Designating a dream. And by the authority of the government
Benjamin
H. Moshi
Their attendance at the slaughter
Name of Slaughterer | Name of Supervisor | Working Hours | Number of Slaughtered
1- Ibrahim Abdul Aziz | Khadouri Baruch Bazzaz | Arabic time from 10 to ⟦illegible⟧ | 7
Isaac Hayyim | | | No supervisor attended for him
Isaac Saleh Shamash | Yusuf Yaqub Aqri | 11 to 3 | 13
Isaac Farah | Yehoshua Zion | 12 30 " 3 | 38
Hesqel Kirkukli | Shalom Moshe Rahamin | 11 " 1 1/2 | ..
Daoud Salman Sabih | Hesqel Qattan and Moshe Nissim Mushaj | " | 162
Shalom Shohet | Rahamin Daoud | " | The supervisor did not attend
Saleh Simantob | Saboun Rahamin | 11 " 7 | 19 <del>borne from ⟦illegible⟧</del>
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Zion Moshe Levi | Ibrahim Shaul | 12 " 5 | 28
Ezra Zion | Hesqel Salman | 12 " 3 | 4
Levi Shalom | Menashe Yusuf Hayyim | 11 " 2 | ....
Muslih Eliezer | Yehoshua Moshe | ⟦line⟧ | .... slaughters in the group
Marshi Munir Elias | Isaac Munir Hakham Salem | 10 3/4 " 2 3/4 | 74
Moshe Haron Hakham Moshe | Karji Yair | 11 " 2 1/4 | 3
Moshe Hesqel Darwish | Karrada | | No supervisor attended for him
Moshe Sultana | Salman Hakham Baruch | 11 " 3 1/4 | 23
Hakham Michael | ⟦line⟧ | ⟦line⟧ | ......
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Naim Ibrahim | Shimon Shaya | .... " | The supervisor did not attend
Yusuf Hayyim Mu'allim Ezra | Hesqel Isaac | 11 " 1 1/4 | slaughters in the group
Yusuf Hakham Nissim | Ibrahim Moshe | 12 1/2 " 1 3/4 | ...
Yusuf Sabih | Ephraim Yusuf Hayyim | 10 1/4 " 4 | 18
Yaqub Rahamin Kirkukli | Haron Mukammal | 11 " 2 1/4 | 44
Yaqub Hesqel Musaffi | Menashe Daoud | ⟦line⟧ | 41
Yaqub Hakham Ezra Bekhor | Haron Mukammal | 11 " 1 | .. slaughters in the group
Yaqub Hay | Nissim Mushaj | ⟦line⟧ | 12
Shaul Zion | Ibrahim Cohen | | The supervisor did not attend
President of the Israelite Community
Baghdad
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9/9/924
To the honor of the excellence of the Hakham Bashi, may God protect and preserve him
Peace and blessing and all good forever, Amen
After inquiring after the peace of your excellence
We are here to inform your excellence that the matter of the deceased Isaac Daoud ⟦...⟧
who died on the 15th day of Adar ⟦...⟧ 5680, and we were his guardians
on behalf of the Holy Rabbinical Court, may God protect and preserve it. And there were among his assets two
shops located in the market ⟦...⟧ and in order for them to be in safe hands we delivered
their keys to your committee ⟦...⟧ and from then onwards ⟦...⟧
about 6 years ⟦...⟧ and the deceased did not leave an heir ⟦...⟧
as we say
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We are here to inform your excellence that the matter of
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From the mouth of Isaac Rashan Naftalu from Hayyim ⟦L⟧nam
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I have received from the Community Management Board
the amount released above, which is one hundred
fils, as the fee for my desire
for the slaughterhouse and chicken center 21/8/52
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I have received from the account of the community administration
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Wednesday and Friday corresponding to 7 and 9 September 924
Youssef Naeem Munshi
Salem Munshi
In our presence, we the witnesses
David Cohen
Moshe
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Table showing the amounts due ⟦illegible⟧ to 11/16/934
Fils | Dinar
056 | 3 | Friday 8/3/934
165 | 3 | " 8/10/934
959 | 2 | " 8/17/934
262 | 3 | " 8/24/934
632 | 3 | " 8/31/934
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355 | 4 | 9/7/934
383 | 3 | " 9/14/934
544 | 13 | Night of Arafat Yom Kippur
896 | 2 | Friday 9/21/934
430 | 3 | " 9/28/934
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777 | 2 | " 10/12/934
421 | 3 | " 10/19/934
187 | 3 | " 10/26/934
158 | 3 | " 11/2/934
338 | 3 | " 11/9/934
390 | 63 | Total slaughter revenues to 11/9/934
390 | 63 | Total slaughter revenues
015 | 5 | Deducting expenses for the Charity Press, value of coupons and slaughter supervisors
375 | 58 | Remainder of fees collected to 11/9/934
With the remaining
The Chief Rabbi of the city
Baghdad, may God protect it
Chief Rabbi of Baghdad Benjamin Hakham Moshi
CHIEF RABBI
BENJAMIN H. MOSHI
Baghdad
Number: 211
Date: 7 / ⟦illegible⟧ / 95
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Honorable members of the ⟦...⟧ Schools
Presented to you
I have previously joined the beginners' class of the National Preparatory School
And I was forced more than a month ago to stop attending because of my work
In Baghdad, I missed the attendance, and I have paid five dinars of the fees. It is requested of
Your honors to consider returning the fees or deducting a portion of them ⟦...⟧ the matter
Your student
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To the Honorable Secretary of the Schools Committee
On the occasion of the end of the evening session, a request was made by the administration
That school fees are not returned, especially since we have written a special receipt for the amount ⟦...⟧
⟦...⟧ for students who left the session, this greatly affects the session's revenue ⟦...⟧
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