AI English Translation, Pages 101-125
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Through His Excellency the respected President of the Israelite Community
To the respected President of the Israelite Community Committee
I am the writer ⟦Raouf⟧ ⟦Bashir⟧ Al-Jamal (the seller), and our house was demolished a long time ago, and I have a son named ⟦Muayyad⟧ Yehuda who was a human being
And he was sentenced on a Zionist charge and remained with me, and today he is imprisoned in Nuqrat Salman for a period of seven years, and living with me in my house
Are my wife and ⟦my daughters⟧ who are unmarried, and my young son, five persons, and we have neither money nor property, and we were the poor ones
We hope you will improve my image and my condition and look with mercy and compassion upon my condition and allocate for me an allowance from
The poor and the orphans, and may God protect you and prolong your lives, my masters
22 / 8 / 54
Residence of Hammam al-Malih quarter
Shaul Ibrahim ⟦to him⟧
Day 22 / 8 / 54
⟦signature⟧
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Mr.
⟦Nitba⟧ Shaul
⟦illegible⟧
⟦signature⟧
Mr. Secretary
The aforementioned is the daughter of ⟦Bunyan⟧
Shaul ⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
To
⟦illegible⟧
This family
5 Dinars only
⟦signature⟧
Mr. Secretary of the Committee
Please present it to the committee
And I find ⟦his assistance⟧
Increasing ⟦his salary⟧
⟦signature⟧
2/7
Yousef Sayon Levi
⟦line⟧
Increase of the weekly allowance
from 500 fils to 750 fils
based on the request of the President
His Eminence the Rabbi
To
Accounting Department
⟦signature⟧
17 / ⟦illegible⟧
⟦signature⟧
2/7
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Honorable Spiritual Council
After greetings?
The committee saw by decision ⟦illegible⟧
to aid him with ⟦illegible⟧
⟦signature⟧
Mr. President
According to my paper
this does not conflict with the association's bylaws
I request raising it to 500 fils
⟦signature⟧
I am Shalom Shabo Shalom from the people of Al-Miqdadiyah Shahraban, and that is because
when the denaturalization occurred, I had money supposed for my children
and I had a little money left, and since the denaturalization ended for me until this time
it finished and I have no spending money left, and now the knife has reached the bone and I hope
from your honorable presence that you favor me with the hand of help and compassion to assign for me
a wage, and I am not of the people who stretch out their hands because I was previously capable
and I am not accustomed to stretching my hand to people, sir, and I am a man who has no ability
to walk so that I can go to the shops or to the synagogue to stretch out my hand, and the rent, sir, I had in the
beginning 7 lengths of linen (Deira) I bought previously because my thought was to send them with my son
and the rent was prevented, and for this I presented it to the Shaul Ashiya Synagogue and Shaul took it from me
by force, he froze it because I sent someone on my behalf who took 8 dinars from Shaul, he gave it on
account of the Jewish community, and now I heard he took it on his own account and I want a notice from you if
he took it on the community's account, it is fine, I will follow up with the community, and if it was on his account so that I may complain
and I want the answer from you, this and the matter is yours, sir
The Petitioner
Shalom Shabo Shalom
27 / 4 / 54
To the gentleman to state the amount of assistance
⟦signature⟧
⟦illegible⟧
⟦line⟧
⟦illegible⟧ 14 ⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
14
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
10 / 10 / 1952
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His Excellency the Chairman of the Administrative Committee, Respected
After greetings
I, Khatouna Salman, the Administrative Committee has assigned me ⟦...⟧ assistance
As I am a widow and have no provider, and I have a young daughter named Leila Eliyahu who is ill
And I do not work in any job, therefore I request the favor of increasing the aid granted to me
to 500 fils per week
With much thanks and gratitude to you
Khatouna Salman
⟦thumbprint⟧
Finance
Her aid is to be increased to
500 fils per week
⟦signature⟧
7 / 10
Leila is in
the hospital, meanwhile it arrived
that her condition requires permanent
aid
⟦signature⟧ 22 / 10 / 52
Yes, she deserves the increase as per your wish
The Inspector ⟦signature⟧
The increase has been recorded
22 / 10
Finance
(16)
His Excellency the Chairman of the Administrative Committee, respected
After greetings,
I am Khoja Ishaq, residing in the Qanbar Ali neighborhood. As I am a widow
and have no provider, and I have two sons, Sassoon Eliyahu and Moshe Eliyahu, and I am
poor, I request your assistance on a weekly basis.
This is for your consideration.
The Petitioner
Khoja Eliyahu Sassoon
Yaqub
⟦fingerprint stamp⟧
Payroll file
To be submitted to the committee
⟦signature⟧
1/1
To Sassoon
To investigate the affairs of this woman
and whether she is truly unable to perform
any work, and whether she is married.
He has orphaned nephews whom he is raising,
and he is their provider. This assistance is
for the orphans, and your reward is with God.
Sincerely,
⟦signature⟧
To
He is granted 200 fils
weekly starting from
this week.
⟦signature⟧
(15)
To the Honorable President of the Israelite Community
The Petition
Sir, my Lord
We inform you that we are a poor family living in the Mash'al shelter
in the Torah [district], and our family consists of two children and I am pregnant
and my husband, noting that my husband has been unemployed for a while and is sick, and our condition is very
bad due to hunger and distress, and therefore we have come with this petition
imploring your order for a weekly assistance for us to live on
and make this for the sake of God, for God does not waste the reward of the doers of good
noting that we have no one but God and you, the virtuous benefactors
In the past, my husband was working and we did not need anything
and therefore I never came to the community for help, but at this time
currently, if we were not in need, I would not have asked for help
And you know that children do not understand if there is [food] or not, they just want to eat
This is what I submit to your honorable selves
The matter is yours, with thanks
The Petitioner
Almas Kahlooh
A poor woman living in the Mash'al shelter
26 / 1 / 954
⟦thumbprint⟧
The Accountant
Disbursement of allocations
⟦illegible⟧
The Secretary
⟦illegible⟧
There is no aid for her
⟦illegible⟧
Grant her (250) fils
weekly for
this week
⟦illegible⟧
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His Excellency, the Honorable Head of the Israelite Community
Presented to your Excellency
I am a poor man in weak condition and I do not have any clothes
to protect myself from the bitter cold of winter, and I have no supporter
Therefore, I hope from your kindness that you order a charity for me with some money
to be paid to me weekly, similar to the rest of the poor, because I am unable to afford
my living and my clothing.
With thanks and respect to your Excellency in advance.
The one praying for you
Victor Youssef Makhlouf
Victor Youssef
Requesting your virtue and your response
Who ⟦...⟧ number ⟦...⟧
Abu ⟦...⟧
The Accountant
Based on the review
The Secretary
No weekly aid has been allocated to the claimant
The Accountant
⟦...⟧
⟦illegible⟧
2/7
⟦illegible⟧
(12)
To the Honorable Members of the Lay Council of the Israelite Community
The matter presented to you is a petition for assistance
Since I am a member of the Israelite community, extremely poor, and knowing that I
have responsibilities and no helper except God and you, the virtuous benefactors
Therefore, I have come with this petition of mine to seek your mercy by helping me, and God does not waste
the reward of the benefactors. To your supreme address and with utmost respect.
The Council
Does he have allocations?
⟦illegible⟧
The General Secretary
He has no weekly allocations
⟦illegible⟧
The Petitioner
Habib Shalouh
A poor member of the Israelite community
⟦signature⟧
1/22/1954
To
Give her (250) two hundred
⟦signature⟧
Received from ⟦illegible⟧
(12)
To . His Eminence the President of the Committee of the Jewish
Community, the Respected
The Petition .
I submit to your esteemed council that I am . a washer of the dead in the old cemetery
and I live in Torat Nabshi Saleh . and for eight months I have been out
of work and I have three family members who are minors and I am in a bad state
and I have nothing to live on and I am with this family in a state of hunger and nakedness
Therefore, I approach the esteemed community council, appealing for a weekly allowance to be allocated to me
and to share with me for the holidays half a dinar for each person weekly, and this is for the sake of God . until
I find work for us to live on, and may your esteemed council take into consideration with kindness and compassion
for the sake of God my miserable financial situation, and the world, as you know, is expensive and we are helpless
and God compensates for what is provided to us, and may God preserve you, my respected master
My master . and there were cards and they are gone
Sassoon Effendi ⟦I follow up with him⟧ repeatedly but he told me
your name is not registered . Go . to Yaqub
but Yaqub was taken by the secretary . He says your name
is full . with Sassoon Effendi
So why were cards not given
And always for me for four people and at the time I was given I did not finish
2/7/1954
⟦illegible⟧
I endorse what came in this petition
and all of it is completely true, so give it for the sake
of God and help him with good assistance
And to you many thanks my masters, my
virtuous masters
The Sincere
Isaac Abdullah
The Accountant
Should it be spent for him
Sassoon Murad Al-Asad
27/7
The Secretary
There is no
aid for him
⟦illegible⟧
28/7
1/21/1952
(19)
His Excellency the Chairman of the Administration Committee, respected
After greetings,
I am Wazza Kadir, I am a poor person and I do not have any relatives here
to help me. I request your kindness to allocate a monthly amount to help me.
With respect,
Submitted to His Excellency the Chairman
⟦signature⟧
7/21
⟦thumbprint⟧
The committee decided to give him
half a dinar monthly for a period of six months
starting from 2/1
⟦signature⟧
2/7
Accountant
⟦signature⟧
⟦illegible⟧
(10)
To the Honorable President of the Central Committee of the Jewish Community
Presented to your presence:
For some time now, my husband Salim Jannat has left me, and I have a son from him who is approximately two years old, and I have
no provider here. I hope from your kindness that you treat me as you treat the rest of the poor. Previously, I was allocated
a quarter of a dinar weekly, and since this amount was not sufficient for my living, and I intended to travel
from Baghdad to Basra, given the presence of the aforementioned child, I was unable to travel. Therefore, I hope that you assign me
an amount so that I can live with my child. This is for your consideration, and peace be upon you.
Habiba Abdullah Suwayf
Sukun
She is to be given a quarter of a dinar weekly
⟦signature⟧
1/21
And half a dinar is to be spent for her
in this week
⟦signature⟧
To be raised to the Secretary of the Committee based on the request
Baghdad 17 / 1 / 1954
(10)
His Excellency the Chairman of the Administrative Committee
After greetings
Presented to your Excellency
I am Sabiha Abboud ⟦illegible⟧ my husband left me a year and a half ago
And I have a son from him named Sadiq and I have no breadwinner and I am of poor
condition, I hope for your help weekly
With much respect to you
Sabiha Abboud Allah
To
The Supervisor, his opinion
There is no record for him in
the aid register
Please grant him weekly aid
to enter his name in
the register
Signature
Abdul Jalil Habib
(9)
⟦line⟧
Nizar the Holy Quran Shamil
in 1500 (250) young men died
in the past week and he was paid
to appear in the day
⟦line⟧
201
1/22
(8)
Baghdad on 1/18/1954
His Excellency the President of the Jewish Community, the Respected
Greetings and respect
I am Habsiya, wife of Yaqub Suleiman, with my three daughters Rosa, Twiya, and Hanini
We have no provider and we are in a deplorable state due to the interruption and exhaustion of everything we had. Your Excellency is requested
to be kind enough to grant us bedding to sleep on, and to Your Excellency much gratitude and respect
Habsiya, wife of Yaqub Suleiman
with her daughters Rosa and Twiya
and Hanini
The Accountant
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
To
Emmanuel Razzouk
Disburse the amount of (12)
Riyals according to
the list
⟦signature⟧
His Excellency the Chairman of the Administrative Committee, respected
After greetings
Presented to your Excellency
That Daoud Nassim, residing in the Menashi Saleh shelter
I request you to kindly assist me weekly as I am unemployed
And I have a wife and my son
With much respect to you
Daoud Nassim
⟦illegible⟧
To
The committee agreed to disburse
The assistance ⟦..⟧ Rupees
(600) Fils ⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
(Z)
(6)
1/10/1954
The Honorable Rabbi Sassoon Khedhouri, may God preserve him, the respected presence
What is presented to your Excellency is that I, Saboun Saqeel Hazna, was appointed before the departure
of the Jews to perform the service of the Torah of Sitt Zilkha. I have been for a period of three
years serving this Torah and maintaining its tools and its silver-plated Torah scrolls.
I guarded the safe of the Sefarim, which some individuals of the previous community
conspired to break the Sefarim and open them, and they broke the locks. When
I saw them, they told me: "Shaul Al-Sulayman sent us." I prevented them from doing that
and stood against them. They began waiting for opportunities to entrap me and harm me
constantly, and they did all kinds of harm to me. By your strength and high resolve,
I obeyed your previous orders and disobeyed their order. My patience is for God until
this moment, until your justice and esteemed appreciation. I am at your service
whatever you wish, and whatever you command me, I shall obey. Hoping from God
and from your Eminence to have mercy on us with the eye of kindness and benevolence by issuing
your order to grant me a monthly salary, similar to the salary of the Torah of Rabbi
Saqeel, whose son spoke with Rabbi Daoud and secured a salary for him.
Please, by your grace, do not disappoint us, and you shall have reward and merit from God.
Sincerely,
Saboun Saqeel Hazna
To the Secretary of the Committee
Clarification is also requested regarding:-
(1) Is the name of the petitioner
on the payroll list or
the annual aid list?
(2) The roles in the cleaning department
are occupied by families,
and if we hire someone for service,
a fee must be paid,
etc.
To J.
Asking if he is entitled | For he has no salary at all
to a salary
⟦illegible⟧
(5)
To the Honorable Israeli Community Collector
I am a person of poor means and a mother of children, and there is no one to provide for my living and my duties, therefore
I beg the community to save me from hunger because I am a poor woman with no one to help me against
this, and to you many thanks
The Petitioner
Rosa Shammo
⟦fingerprint stamp⟧
Yes, she deserves assistance and support
The Mukhtar
⟦signature⟧
To
Reema Kadoorie School
⟦signature⟧
Baghdad on 16 / 12 / 1952
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To the Honorable President of the Administrative Committee of the Jewish Community.
Subject
I, the undersigned, Nafia daughter of Murad, wife of the deceased Ibrahim Ghannawi Yehuda.
My husband passed away about fifteen days ago and left me with six daughters and four
sons without a breadwinner, and all of them are unemployed with no work. Therefore, I have come seeking mercy for the appointment of
the aid that you deem appropriate for me.
With highest respect.
⟦thumbprint⟧
The Petitioner
Nafia daughter of Murad
⟦signature⟧
To the Honorable Secretary of the Administrative Committee
Nafia daughter of Murad stated that her husband
was found deceased in one of the swamps near the island
and that he was poor when he was alive
and barely made a living, and he did not leave me any funds
for us to live on; rather, he left behind ten souls, four of whom are
sons and six are daughters, the eldest of whom is fourteen years old
and she requests the allocation of a weekly allowance
The accountant in charge of the husband's care
and in the aid of this wife
for consideration now and issuance
Friday
⟦signature⟧
20 / 1
Yes, she deserves the aid
after stipulating with her that she does not work
on Saturday in washing clothes as she
usually washes fabric. If she works on
Saturday, the aid must be cut off
⟦signature⟧
No objection
We approved the
payment of one and a half Dinars
weekly
21 / 1 / 1954
⟦J⟧
2
10 / 1 / 1954
To the Honorable Chairman of the Administrative Committee
After greetings
Presented to your Excellency
I am Samana Makhlouf, one of the poor of the community, and I have a family
And I do not have any assistance, so I hope for your financial help so that
I can support my family, and I thank you
This is for your consideration
Samana Makhlouf
⟦fingerprint⟧
He deserves only a daily dirham because he works ⟦and the integrity of the profession and its growth⟧
⟦signature⟧
We approved to spend
(250) fils weekly
11 September
⟦signature⟧
(2)
To the Honorable President of the Israelite Community
I, the petitioner, am a poor person and I have no one to provide for my livelihood, and my relatives
have left the country ⟦...⟧ and I am unable to work and disabled, and my son named
⟦Yosef⟧ had volunteered in the victorious Iraqi army and there is no one to help me
in providing the means of living, and therefore I am a poor woman who has come
seeking mercy and help by allocating a salary for me, and it was through the abundance of benefactors
who have mercy on me, and this matter is yours, sir.
1 / 7 / 954
The Petitioner
Toba Ibrahim
In the shelter
⟦fingerprint stamp⟧
Honorable Housing [Department]
Explained in the previous petition
that she deserves assistance
<del>⟦illegible⟧</del>
⟦signature⟧
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
⟦illegible⟧
(2)
To His Eminence Hakham Sassoon Khedouri, the respected
Presented to your Eminence
Sir, my son Joseph Shaul is today a soldier in the military service, and I remain a widow with no one to perform
the duties of my livelihood. Because I was a worker employed by an old woman for a year, and she has died, I now remain without
anyone to help me. I have my son, but unfortunately they expelled me and gave me nothing, and I remain confused and perplexed in pain in the ⟦nickname⟧ until now,
a stranger in Baghdad, and I reside in the hotel in the Torah. Therefore, I request to submit this paper of mine to your Eminence, if you would help me
by giving me a salary so that I can secure my livelihood. I have no one but God and secondly your Eminence. This is for you with great respect.
12 / 12 / 953
Shouba Naeem Ibrahim, mother of the soldier
⟦fingerprint stamp⟧
⟦signature⟧
12 / 12
To the Secretary of the Committee
After reviewing what was stated in the petition
of the aforementioned, I have personally gone to investigate
her condition, and it appeared that she is in need.
⟦signature⟧
12 / 12 / 953
She is very much in need and I endorse what was stated in it.
⟦signature⟧
⟦illegible pencil notes⟧
(1)
To His Excellency the President of the respected Israelite Community
Sir, the person named Daoud Gharib is a poor man
in the Bab al-Sheikh neighborhood, he is among the people of livelihood and in need
He is approaching your respected department to be registered in the list of the poor because we
are in need, and the matter is yours, sir.
Lawyer Yaqub Abdul Aziz
⟦signature⟧
One of the residents of the neighborhood
⟦signature⟧
The Council
He is to be given a quarter of a dinar monthly
starting from January 1, 1950
⟦line⟧
16 / 1 / 950