Financial Documents, Baghdadi Jewish Community; Correspondence and School Records, Baghdadi Jewish Schools
View interactive document pageThese are documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community including financial records; blueprints; correspondence regarding charitable donations, synagogues, and Torah scrolls; lease agreements, taxi receipts, utility bills, and stationary receipts. There are also documents from the Jewish schools in Baghdad, including correspondence regarding student affairs, teachers, lists of students sitting for exams, school administration and financial matters, curriculum development; schedules; and chemistry notes from the Frank Iny School.
Israeli Community Baghdad Properties (Synagogues) Portfolio Number - 251 Registry Number - Empty Lot (belonging to the Jewish Synagogue) Liwa (Governorate): Baghdad District: / Sub-district: / Neighborhood and Street: Bataween (Jewish) Sequence Number: 142/172 Door Numbers: Property Type: Endowment (Waqf) Property Nature: Empty Lot Land Registry Map Number: Notes: 1/1/1949
Committee for Israeli Property Institution :: Churches Committee Registry Serial Number :: 251 Tabu Serial Number :: 142/172 Door Numbers :: Type of Property :: Plot (belonging to the Al-Suwayri Synagogue) Trustee :: Head of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
T / 2144 / 53 25 / 8 / 1953 Respected Mr. Muzahim Ahmed Lessee of Al-Huwaidi vacant lot, land registry serial 172 / 143 After greetings In view of the maturity of the promissory notes signed by you, the details of which are listed below, and the passage of a long period since their maturity, and your failure to pay them until now, this Presidency warns you of the necessity of taking the initiative to pay the amounts of the promissory notes listed below within three days from the date of your notification of this letter, otherwise we will be forced to take the necessary legal measures to preserve the rights of the Waqf. Please accept our highest respect ⟦signature⟧ Heskel Daoud Shemtob Acting Head of the Community President of the Lay Council Details of the Due Promissory Notes Note Amount | Maturity Date Dinar Fils | 20 ... | 1 / 8 / 1951 20 ... | 1 / 8 / 1952 20 ... | 1 / 8 / 1953 60 / 000 |
Director of Rusafa Land Registry Baghdad Land Registry Directorate 46612 North Baghdad Al-Tasabil Quarter Al-Maftul 1- 182/156 186 187 Public Road Organized according to the inspection decision Dated ⟦illegible⟧ Scale 1/1000 Due to the layout of this map, the area of the indicated property equals one hundred and seventy-six square meters Registered under number (8012) in Volume (19) Yanawin at the Rusafa Land Registry Department, Baghdad Drawing 4/1/948 The Surveyor The Inspection Officer Director of Rusafa Land Registry 2/4/1948
88 7/28/9 Department Copy 251 Presidency of the Lay Council After greetings, With reference to the letter from the Jewish Synagogue Committee dated 7/4/1946 addressed to us, and a copy thereof to your esteemed council. Our committee has studied the proposal of the Jewish Synagogue Committee regarding granting the vacant plot with an area of 176 square meters, sequence 143/172, by long-term lease to Mr. Muzahim Ahmed, and has decided to approve the aforementioned proposal provided that the lease term is ten years with an annual rent of eighty dinars, to be paid in two installments in advance and the remaining eight installments to be paid annually, and provided that the value of the building is eight hundred dinars according to the attached map. Our committee has prepared the attached draft contract intended to be executed with the aforementioned tenant. We request you to kindly take a decision authorizing His Eminence the Head of the Community to sign it if your esteemed council approves in this regard. With respect. ⟦signature⟧ 7/27 Vice President Copy to - Jewish Synagogue Committee - With reference to your letter dated 7/4/1946. Church Committee ⟦line⟧ 14 Dear ⟦Koji⟧ Please kindly sign this letter to be submitted to the Council today, noting that Mr. Sabri ⟦Maji⟧ has approved the draft attached contract. ⟦signature⟧ 7/28 For filing ⟦Attallah⟧
Accounting 37 59915 Receipts of Dirhams obtained for the government Volume Number: Sequence Number: 73 Fils/Dinar: - / 1500 Department Name: Received from: Muzahim Ahmed Al-Kadhim ⟦Security⟧ Amount: ⟦...⟧ Dinars and ⟦...⟧ Fils On account of: Advertising fees in ⟦...⟧ newspaper Date: 22 / 8 / 1949 Signature of the Receiver: Job Title: ⟦...⟧ ⟦Signature⟧ 2216
⟦Israeli Property Committee⟧ ⟦Baghdad⟧ 3/ /1949 His Excellency the Respected Mayor of the Capital After greetings and respect With reference to your letter numbered 3209 and dated March 13, 1949, regarding your respected municipality's request for 11/750 Dinars on property sequence 143/172 Al-Huwaidi for paving fees. We wish to inform you that the aforementioned property has passed to the Huwaidi Torah (Synagogue) by exchange according to the decision of the Personal Status Court numbered 588/48 and dated May 26, 1948, a copy of which is attached herewith, as a settlement for the section encroached upon inadvertently and in good faith by neighbors upon the Huwaidi Torah. Therefore, we request your Excellency to include this property in the exemption similar to religious temples, given that it belongs to the Huwaidi Synagogue and because it will be used for its purposes. This is for your Excellency's command and respect; ⟦illegible⟧ Head of the Community Based on the receipt of ⟦Map of the Four⟧ this property To be filed in the name of the Synagogue A ⟦illegible⟧
Department Copy 1048 8/7/1949 <del>Secretariat of the Capital</del> Baghdad Greetings, We wish to inform you that the vacant lot belonging to the endowments of the Jewish Community located in the Al-Huwaidi neighborhood, land registry sequence 172/143, has been leased under a long-term lease for a period of ten years to the tenant Mr. Muzahim Ahmed, starting from the first of August 1949, provided that he undertakes the construction of the buildings needed for the aforementioned lot from his own funds, in accordance with the contract certified by the Notary Public of East Baghdad on 3/8/1949. Based on the request of the aforementioned tenant, he has been provided with this letter. Sincerely. Mr. President Sassoon Head of the Community This letter was written based on the request of the tenant Mr. Muzahim Ahmed. ⟦illegible signature⟧ 8/5 14 To be kept in the specialized file
⟦illegible⟧ Second Copy 1049 7/8/1946 His Excellency the Director of Tapu for the Baghdad District, respected After greetings, Please kindly provide me with a copy of the property registration, sequence 143/172 Bataween, dated January 17, 1946, along with a copy of the Tapu map for the aforementioned property belonging to the endowments of the Jewish community in Baghdad. Please accept the highest expressions of respect; ⟦signature⟧ 7/8 Head of the Community Muwaffaq This petition was written based on the request of Mr. Ibrahim Ahmed 815 To be kept in the relevant endowments file
Front elevation appearance Ground floor plan Scale 1:100 Floor plan Upper Roof Room Room Scale 1:100 Porch Room Room Signature Designed by Mr. Mushtaq and sovereignty belongs to God Al-Shakiriya area Baghdad
The letter of the President of the Al-Huwaidi Synagogue Committee dated 4/7/1949 was read, which includes granting the Al-Huwaidi Synagogue plot numbered sequence 172 / 143 located in the Al-Bataween neighborhood, measuring an area of 176 square meters, by long-term lease to the applicant Mr. Muzahim Maher under the conditions shown in the aforementioned letter. Upon deliberation and reviewing the applicant for leasing the plot, it was decided as follows: - 1 - Granting the mentioned plot by long-term lease for a period of ten years starting from the date of ratification of this contract before the Notary Public. 2 - The annual rent for the mentioned plot shall be twenty dinars, of which two installments are paid in advance upon signing the lease contract, and the remainder of the annual rent shall be paid at the beginning of each year of the contract. 3 - The lessee must construct buildings on the mentioned plot from his own funds, provided that the expenses are not less than -/800 dinars. 4 - The lessee must complete the construction of the buildings he needs within a period not exceeding one year from the date of the contract. If the period ends and he has not done so, the contract is considered rescinded and the applicant must pay compensation equivalent to half the amount allocated for construction in addition to any rents that may be due from him, without the need for a notice. 5 - The lessee does not have the right to lease the mentioned plot to another person except with the consent of the owner, and this does not prejudice the right to lease the plot to others. 6 - The lessee must not neglect the maintenance of the building during the lease term. 7 - The lessee must pay the fees, taxes, and charges imposed by the laws in force, including the property tax, paving fees, and other municipal fees. And the house shall be of two floors And the construction shall be of bricks and a machine ⟦...⟧ ⟦...⟧ ⟦signature⟧ ⟦signature⟧ ⟦signature⟧ ⟦signature⟧ ⟦signature⟧ The Secretary Member Member Vice President President
Bathroom Toilet Kitchen Dining Hall Living Room Garden Entrance Corridor Porch Garage A B For a public building Ground Floor Plan Hashim Hadi Al-Mu'ayyan Baghdad ⟦illegible⟧ Design of a house construction in ⟦...⟧ Al-Bataween neighborhood Scale 1:100 Section A - B Roof slab Ground level Bitumen course Polished cement Parquet Cement carpentry Fawarsi (Terrazzo) Cement concrete 6.00 Front facade view Architect
Minutes of the inspection carried out on the vacant plot belonging to the Al-Huwaidi Synagogue Tabu Serial 143/172 Wednesday, 10/12/1949 The inspection was conducted in the presence of Mr. Salih Salman, Engineer and member of the Property Committee and Messrs. Gurji Ishaq, Eliyahu Shahrabani, and Shimon Sofir, members of the Al-Huwaidi Synagogue committee, also present was the Secretary of the Community. The inspection was carried out on the plot's site for the purpose of the third clause of the lease contract concluded with ⟦Mr. Ibrahim⟧ on August 1, 1949, which includes the construction of buildings whose cost is not less than -/800 Dinars. After reviewing the buildings constructed, the engineer Mr. Salih Salman decided, as supported by those present, that the cost of these buildings reaches -/800 Dinars (Eight hundred Dinars), and accordingly this report was organized. Salih Salman | Eliyahu Shahrabani | Gurji Ishaq | Shimon Sofir | Secretary of the Community 14