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8529
10 December 945
Newspaper paper
His Excellency the Respected Minister of Interior
With reference to our letter No. 8487 dated 19 November 945
Please reconsider supplying us with another ream of newspaper paper, given
that the permit granted to us for one ream was not sufficient to meet our needs for printing the budgets
of the community's institutions. With much gratitude to you.
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10/12
Head of the Community
Urgent
10/12
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In the name of the Lady
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12-12-945
8487
Newsprint
19 November 945
His Excellency the Respected Minister of Interior
Please order the authorization of our community administration to acquire two bundles of newsprint
for the purpose of printing 300 copies of the community institutions' budgets for the year 45/946
due to our inability to obtain white paper from the Directorate of General
Imported Funds ⟦this⟧ and with much gratitude to you.
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11/19
Head of the Community
Sayyid Ahmad - Indian Observer
Approved
File
11/19
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In the name of the illustrated Quran preserved for your noble
service, may God grant you success in all good, and may you remain
for its people
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
File No. 109
Date 18 / 1 / 1946
Charitable Sewing Association for Girls
Baghdad
Location: Taht al-Takiya 101 / 113
Established in 1929
Number:
Date: 10 / 1 / 46
His Eminence Rabbi Sassoon Khedouri, President of the Jewish Community
in Baghdad, Respectfully
After greetings
The General Assembly meeting of our association will be held in the building of
the National Preparatory School at four o'clock in the evening on
Sunday, corresponding to 13 / 1 / 46.
We hope you will kindly attend to grace the meeting
And please accept our highest respect
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Honorary President
S. Al-Bahir
His Eminence the President informed me that he usually
delegates the Secretary on his behalf, so please
send the file's background documents with him
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8576
11 January 946
The respected and virtuous Mr. Edward Simha
The respected President of the Girls' Charitable Sewing Association
Haifa
After greetings,
With reference to your letter dated 10 / 1 / 946
I have assigned the secretary to attend the annual general assembly meeting of your association
on my behalf, and I wish your work success and prosperity.
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Head of the Community
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Head of the Community
January 16, 946
His Excellency Mr. Abdul Majid Allawi
The Honorable Minister of Social Affairs - Baghdad
After greetings and respect,
I have learned that the Syrian authorities refuse to grant transit permits through their territory for those afflicted
with tuberculosis from among the members of this community whom your esteemed ministry is sending to Lebanon for treatment
at the government's expense.
In view of my knowledge of the sympathy Your Excellency holds for these miserable people, I saw fit
to request that you take the measures you deem appropriate to secure their passage to their sanatoriums.
I particularly hope that the case of the tuberculosis patient Saleh Munshi Radwan, who received
this kindness from your esteemed ministry, receives the attention it deserves, so that passage through Syrian territory
is secured for him and his fellow tuberculosis patients.
Please accept, Your Excellency, my utmost thanks in advance and great respect.
From the sincere,
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Head of the Community
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8586
January 18, 946
His Excellency Mr. Abdul Majid Allawi
The Honorable Minister of Social Affairs
Baghdad
After greetings and respect,
The tuberculosis patient Saleh Munshi Rajwan approached me, stating that your esteemed ministry has
shown him kindness and agreed to send him to Lebanon for treatment at the government's expense, and he
is therefore profuse in his prayers for your Excellency. However, on the other hand, he fears that
the Syrian authorities—pursuant to the orders they recently issued—might prevent his passage through their territory,
and thus this act of charity would remain suspended. He has asked me to intercede with
your Excellency and request that you take the measures you deem appropriate to ensure his passage
to his sanatorium in Lebanon. Knowing as I do the compassion and mercy your Excellency holds
for every miserable person, I saw fit to seek your Excellency's assistance in this charitable matter.
May God preserve you as a treasure for humanity, and please accept the highest respect.
Sincerely,
Sassoon
Head of the Community
Muslim
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GIRL'S SEWING CHARITABLE SOCIETY
BAGHDAD
ESTABLISHED
1929
Girl's Sewing Charitable Society
Baghdad
Location :: Taht al-Takiya 10 / 113
Established in 1929:
Telephone: 3146
Number:
Date: 1/16/46
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Private number 117
Date 1/17/1946
To the Excellency the President of the Jewish Community, Rabbi Sassoon Khadduri, Respectfully
After greetings
The general assembly met under the chairmanship of Mr. Salim Khabbaza as a representative of your Excellency and elected the administrative
board for the year 1946. After the election and distribution of positions, the administrative board was composed of the persons
whose names are listed below: -
President | Israel Nessim Hay
Vice President | Ibrahim Ishaq Eliyahu
Secretary | Meir Zakaria
Treasurer | Ibrahim Hayim Twena
Members | Aboudi Ishaq Shammash
| Menahim Aslan
| Moshe Hakham Nessim
We take this opportunity to offer your Excellency our sincerest thanks for your sponsorship of our project and we would be very pleased
if your Excellency would honor our society's school with a visit during its hours to observe the progress of the school and its system.
Please accept our highest respect.
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Honorary President
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Telegram
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Delayed Foreign Telegram "A"
D.F. Telegram "A"
Iraqi Post and Telegraph Administration
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Administrative Instructions:
Nothing to be written by sender above this line.
Nothing to be written by sender above this line.
To :: His Excellency the Respected Dr. Hanna Khayat
To,: L. C.
Delayed: Mosul
Please accept my sincerest congratulations on the occasion of tonight's party
for your noble son, with best wishes for happiness and permanent prosperity
Rabbi Sassoon Khadhuri
Head of the Israelite Community
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The sender of the telegram must observe paragraph five
written on the back of this form
Instructions by sender, please see item (5 on reverse)
The telegram is sent according to the conditions
written on the back of this form
This telegram is sent according to conditions on reverse
Name:
Name:
Signature:
Signature:
Address:
Address:
Presidency of the Israelite Community
Registry Number 115
Date 17 / 7 / 1946
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To His Excellency the respected Abu Hola, your esteemed embassy has recently announced news regarding
the heads of the awards in all copies, whose number of members reaches one hundred and seventy-eight souls. We inform you
that the number of award heads, their language, is one hundred and seventy-eight souls living in the other commission building, and most of them
built the building, living in seven rooms on the second floor, and everyone lives in each house, no less than seven
and there are other buildings, and their remaining funds are only twenty-eight, and next to it across the remaining house
every house poses a danger due to the extreme overcrowding under the existing departments there. We have requested from your Excellency to act as an agent
to accept the immigration papers for this building, which is not his property and he has no right to dispose of the mentioned materials
since the house was not successful in immigration but it remained steadfast in (Amman) there, and since we have lost from
those identified by your language regarding the disapproval of what was stated in the decision of the respected Consul in his capacity of organizing this building
which proved what is in it regarding general immigration, and we assist them to the extent of your efforts, may you be supported
1 copy of the attached papers to be included in the mentioned building, received by the translator
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A copy of the attached papers to be included in your records with their names
1- The Rabbi Beit Cohen, residents of ⟦illegible⟧
2- The Rabbi Shalom L'Israel in Baghdad
3- The supervisor Adon in Al-Aziz in Baghdad
Iraq
Financial
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Summary of the conditions under which deferred foreign telegrams are accepted
1 - Deferred foreign telegrams are sent in accordance with the foreign telegram regulations published in the Iraqi Post and Telegraph Guide.
2 - The fee for this telegram is half the fee charged for an ordinary foreign telegram.
3 - It is not permitted to use more than one language in writing the text of this telegram.
4 - The sender of the telegram undertakes, by signing the face of this form, that its text is written entirely in plain language and does not convey any meaning other than what it indicates.
5 - The sender of the telegram must record in the space provided on the left side of the address on the face of the form, his wishes to send the telegram via any of the
registered telegraph routes, or that the fee for its reply is prepaid. If the telegram is in the interest of the Iraqi government, the word (Official) is recorded.
6 - The Iraqi Post and Telegraph Administration shall not be responsible for delay, error, loss, or damage that may occur to the telegram from its non-transmission or non-delivery or during
transmission or distribution.
7 - The Iraqi Post and Telegraph Administration has the right to refuse to register the telegram. It also has the right not to send it even if it has been registered for transmission or distribution, and in
this case, its fee shall be returned to the sender upon submitting a request for that.
8 - Requests related to the refund of fees and all complaints about telegrams are submitted to the General Directorate of Posts and Telegraphs in Baghdad.
9 - To prevent the occurrence of error, this telegram is written in clear and correct handwriting.
Conditions on which Deferred Foreign Telegrams are accepted.
Deferred Foreign Telegrams are forwarded in accordance with the rules for Foreign Telegrams published in the 'Iraq
Post and Telegraph Guide.
2. The rate of this telegram is half that charged for Ordinary Foreign Telegram.
3. The use of more than one language in the text of this telegram is not allowed.
4. The sender, whose signature on this form, declares that the text is entirely in plain language and does not bear any mean-
ing other than that which appears on the face of it.
5. The sender may write the instructions, in the space provided, at the left side of the address, on the face of this form,
such as Route, Reply Paid, or State if on 'Iraq Government Service.
6. The Administration of Posts and Telegraphs, 'Iraq, shall not be liable to make compensation for any delay, error, loss,
injury or damage arising from omission, non-transmission or non-delivery of the telegram.
7. The Administration of P. & T., 'Iraq, may decline to accept the telegram. It may also decline to forward it although it
has been booked. In such case the amount paid for transmission shall be refunded to the sender on application.
8. Complaints and applications for refund should be addressed to the Directorate of Posts and Telegraphs, Baghdad.
9. To prevent mistakes this Telegram must be legibly written.
Basra, January 2, 1946
His Eminence Rabbi Sassoon Khedouri, the respected
After greetings and much respect: we know that you and your family are in permanent health and happiness, which is what we wish for you
from the bottom of our hearts. We were delighted by the engagement of your niece, the daughter of Rabbi Saif-Allah, your daughter Marcelle ⟦inspection⟧
to the special young man, God willing, success to both parties, and thus we have come to congratulate you and we hope from God Almighty that
you fulfill your duty toward the rest of your children while you are in good health. Here we have come to kiss your hands and the hands of your mother, as have
the brothers and the infant, congratulating you and kissing your hands. My daughter and Hatoun also kiss your hands and greet
your children, may God protect them. Please accept the highest respect for your dear person, and may you remain in goodness and wellness.
Sincerely,
Munshi Aziz
On behalf of ⟦illegible⟧
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The Spiritual Committee of the Holy City
Baghdad, may God protect it
The Israelite Spiritual Council
in Baghdad
Number: 2068
Date: 14 ⟦illegible⟧
Dedicated to Hakham Sassoon Khedouri, may your Protector guard you
Rabbi of the Jewish Community in Babylon
Regarding the date
In accordance with the decision of the Spiritual Committee on the date 19/10/1946, we decided
to issue letters of tidings to the worlds for the priesthood of Issachar Ezra b. Jahl
known as Kohen for the cantorate of the synagogues of Baghdad, and this is based on
the power of the Torah from the day of his ordination as a cantor ⟦illegible⟧
and by a Kohen from those distinguished in the priesthood of Baghdad by the name of the Cohen family
or the Kohanim family - from which the name is famous.
And until the status of the Kohen that the Kohanim will sign upon them - and they are these famous ones:
Menashe Yosef Shemesh - Avraham Georgi Salman - Yitzhak Shalom Muallem -
Daoud
Ezra Salman Menachem - Yosef Yitzhak Abed - Avraham Shaul Muallem -
H. Yesod Ezra Shemesh - Abdallah Muallem - Menashe Eliyahu Pinhas
Ezra Salem Cohen - and this is from the distinguished Kohanim from Jerusalem in Baghdad
For this we gave the letter into his hand to be a testimony for him
Sassoon Khedouri
Hakham Bashi
Baghdad
8441
24 / 10 / 945
Honorable and Distinguished Gentlemen
Ibrahim Eliyahu Shamshua
Ibrahim Eliyahu Shahrabani
Ibrahim Munir Somikh
Hezekiah Ezra Saleh Zili
Salman Daoud Samarli
Shaul Shmuel Nishan
Abdul Nabi Ishaq Barikh
Aboudi Saleh Hitayat
His Eminence Rabbi Yaqub Ezra Musfi
Youssef Hezekiah Aboudi
After greetings and respect
The Israeli Spiritual Council in Baghdad, to which your resignation from
the Oheb Shalom Committee was ⟦referred⟧, finds it difficult to lose your services and valuable assistance in bringing
peace and harmony to Israeli families; therefore, it declines to accept it. So I ask you
to continue this charitable work of yours, wishing you every success.
With my thanks in advance, please accept my highest respect;
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Head of the Community
Miscellaneous
The Spiritual Council of the Jewish Community
Baghdad, may God protect it
The Israeli Spiritual Council
in Baghdad
Number: 2588
Date: 10 / 7 / 706
On this day, the thirtieth day of the month
Kislev, the year five thousand seven hundred and eleven
of the creation of the world, according to the count we are accustomed to here in Baghdad,
the city situated on the Tigris River, I, Eliyahu son of Yitzhak
Mizrahi, have released, divorced, and set free you,
you my wife Farha daughter of Ezra Daniel, who were my wife
from before this time, and now I have released, set free, and divorced you
Literatures
To the center
Eliyahu Mizrahi
Yitzhak Hayyim
Ezer
Presidency of the Israeli Community
Baghdad
Number - S 22
Date 25 / 11 / 1950
His Eminence the Rabbi
For your kind review, with appreciation
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11/27
8/14/1946
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November 27, 945
The Honorable Mr. Daoud Haskel Ezra the Jew, Respectfully
Baghdad
After greetings and respect
The Israeli Spiritual Council in Baghdad informed us in its letter No. 1588
dated 20 Kislev 5706 that the Council has appointed you as a member of the Oheb
Shalom Committee, so I ask you to begin your work, wishing you luck and success.
With best regards.
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11/27
Head of the Community
S Kh / AM
11/28
File
11/28
Dorshe Tora Society
Baghdad
Dorshe Tora Society
BAGHDAD
Dorshe Tora Society
Baghdad
⟦illegible⟧ School - Torah Quarter
Presidency of the Jewish Community:
Special Number: 70
Date: 7 / 2 / 1946
Baghdad 12 / 2 / 1946 BAGHDAD
Honorable President of the Jewish Community
After greetings
We request mediation with the Directorate General of Imported Goods to supply us with eight reams
of cut paper for the purpose of using it in our society for correspondence, receipts, and records
With much gratitude to your Excellency
President of the Society
DORSHE TORA COMMITTEE
Dorshe Tora Society
Society of
Dorshe Tora
Baghdad
Baghdad
BAGHDAD 1928
8650
18 February 946
Directorate General of Imported Funds
Greetings,
The Dorothy Torah Charitable Society in Baghdad has requested us to mediate with
your esteemed directorate to obtain eight reams of cut paper for the purpose of
the society's use for receipts, records, and correspondence, as their paper has run out.
Please be so kind as to approve the supply of this religious society with the stationery
it needs. With respect.
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2/18
On behalf of the Head of the Community
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The Iraqi Government
Number: ⟦illegible⟧
Date: 1/21/946
Subject: Sending a consumptive patient to Bhamdoun Sanatorium
Ministry of Social Affairs
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Number ⟦illegible⟧
Date 1/22/1946
To the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
We list below a copy of the letter from the Presidency of the Jewish Community No. 8586
Dated 1/18/946 regarding the consumptive patient Saleh Munshi Rajwan, for your kind consideration
of the matter and to inform us.
Director of Social Affairs
A copy to the Presidency of the Jewish Community with reference to their letter mentioned above.
A copy to the Social Affairs Division.
Copy of the Letter
His Excellency Mr. Abdul Majid Allawi
The Honorable Minister of Social Affairs - Baghdad.
Greetings.
The consumptive patient Saleh Munshi Rajwan states that your venerable ministry has shown sympathy
towards him and agreed to send him to Lebanon for treatment at the government's expense, and for that he is profuse
in prayers for Your Excellency. But on the other hand, he fears that the Syrian authorities might prevent -
pursuant to the orders they recently issued - his passage through their territories, and thus this charity
would remain obstructed. He has requested that I intercede for him with Your Excellency and entreat you to take -
the measures you deem appropriate to ensure his passage to his sanatorium in Lebanon, and I am confident
in the sympathy and mercy Your Excellency holds for every wretched soul, hoping for Your Excellency's utmost assistance
in this charitable matter. May God keep you a treasure for humanity. Please accept our highest respect.
Sincerest,
Head of the Community
To His Sovereignty Al-Dai Khan
For your kind review ⟦illegible⟧
1/22
Association for the Relief of the Poor
General Headquarters
Baghdad
Number: 298
Date: 28 / 1 / 1946
To His Eminence Rabbi Sassoon Khedouri, Respectfully
The Administrative Board of the Association for the Relief of the Poor will meet on Thursday,
January 31, 1946, at the office of the Director General of Agriculture at ten o'clock
in the morning, requesting your kind attendance ⟦...⟧
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The Secretary
Committee
Support for Orphans of the 1941 Events
Baghdad
Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
File No. ⟦126⟧
Date: 28 / 1 / 1946
Number:
Date: 28 / 1 / 1946
His Eminence, the Respected President of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
After greetings and respect.
Our committee has decided to hold an evening party (Ball) at the Al-Rafidain Club building, the
proceeds of which will be dedicated to the benefit of the orphans, on the evening of Tuesday, February 26, 1946, at eight o'clock
p.m. As for the number of tickets, it is 150 tickets for a lady and a gentleman, the value of each being one dinar,
and 50 tickets for an additional lady, the value of each being a quarter of a dinar.
I would be grateful if Your Eminence would kindly contact the competent authorities to obtain the
necessary permit.
With much gratitude and respect to Your Eminence.
Sincerely,
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Honorary Secretary
8604
28 January 946
Secretariat of the Capital
Baghdad
The Committee for the Support of the Orphans of the June 1941 Events intends to hold an evening party (Ball)
in the Al-Rafidain Club building, the proceeds of which will be allocated for the benefit of the orphans, on the evening of
Tuesday, February 26, 946, at eight o'clock in the evening. As for
the number of tickets, it is (150) tickets for a gentleman and a lady, the value of one ticket being
one dinar, and 50 tickets for an additional lady, the value of each being a quarter of a dinar.
I hope you will kindly grant us the necessary permit for that, and we also request that this
party be exempted from the stamp duty, and we thank you.
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1/28
On behalf of
Chairman of the Committee
This transaction requires a
stamp.
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August 6, 945
Controller of Hides and Tanning
In the General Directorate of Local Products
Baghdad
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Reference to your letter No. 12878 dated 7/24/945
We have previously explained to you in our numerous meetings that the community fund is in a position
that does not allow it to spend on improving this slaughterhouse, which is currently used as a public
slaughterhouse.
What we would like to add is that we have learned that the Ministry of Finance has a credit of fifty
thousand dinars to be spent on improving slaughterhouses in the provinces.
You will no doubt agree with us that the Jewish community, by constructing this slaughterhouse at its own
expense, has lifted a burden from the treasury, especially since we did not hesitate when the Municipality requested to place
the slaughterhouse at its disposal for use without charge as a public slaughterhouse on a temporary basis, and many years
have passed since then, during which the slaughterhouse building suffered considerable damage. In this regard, it is most deserving of the attention
and care of the esteemed government, and it would be fair to allocate a portion of the aforementioned amount designated
for improving slaughterhouses to it. Therefore, we request your mediation with the venerable Ministry of Finance to allocate an
appropriate amount for the purpose of carrying out comprehensive repairs in the Jewish slaughterhouse in Rusafa, in accordance with what you see
fit for the public interest.
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Head of the Community
Iraqi Government
Ministry of Supply
Directorate General of Imported Goods
"Textiles Division (B)"
Section ⟦line⟧
Number 2754
Date 1/29/46
Subject - Regarding shroud cloth ⟦line⟧
To " - Presidency of the Jewish Community
With reference to your letter No. 8594 dated 1/23/1946.
We regret that there is no quantity of muslin or cotton fabric available at
this Directorate, and we only have white raw cloth.
Acting Director General of Imported Goods
Presidency of the Jewish Community:
Baghdad:
Special Number: 142
Date: 2/2/46
On behalf of/