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| | Previous | 3103 | 500
| | Total value of school furniture as follows:- | |
78 | 250 | Value of furniture, wardrobe and mirror | |
25 | 600 | » Chairs number 17 | |
209 | 750 | » Desks and offices for classrooms | |
106 | 200 | » » for sewing | |
119 | 350 | » Sewing machines number 3 | |
144 | 000 | » Electric fans number 8 | |
5 | 300 | » Electric irons number 3 | |
7 | 000 | » Heaters number 2 | |
57 | 732 | » Miscellaneous items | 753 | 182
| | Marriage association expenses | |
35 | 300 | Value of stationery | |
38 | 431 | Fees for printing advertisements for publicity and writing tools | |
43 | 200 | Value of miscellaneous items | 116 | 931
| | Total general expenses for the sewing school | |
703 | 000 | Value of house rent from March 946 until the end of | |
| | November 947 | |
63 | 240 | Value of building materials | |
30 | 680 | » Electricity fees | |
13 | 839 | » Stationery | |
19 | 791 | » Other necessities | |
4 | 050 | » Water supply fees | |
4 | 050 | » Insurance | |
2 | 600 | » Fees for printing papers for the school | 841 | 250
Following | 4814 | 863
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Expenses
Paid to assist poor girls for marriage for one hundred and fifty girls
Given to one hundred and forty-eight of them an amount of ten Dinars for each girl
and to two girls five Dinars for each of them as follows:
Fils | Dinar
⟦line⟧ | 200 | From 22 February 946 to the end of 31 March 946
⟦line⟧ | 135 | " 1 April 946 " " 30 April 946
⟦line⟧ | 070 | " 1 May 946 " " 31 May 946
⟦line⟧ | 090 | " 1 June 946 " " 30 June 946
⟦line⟧ | 070 | " 1 July 946 " " 31 July 946
⟦line⟧ | 440 | " 1 August 946 " " 31 December 946
⟦line⟧ | 165 | " 1 January 947 " " 31 January 947
⟦line⟧ | 180 | " 1 February 947 " " 30 April 947
⟦line⟧ | 140 | " 1 May 947 " " 31 May 947
| 1490 |
Salaries of sewing and embroidery school teachers as follows:-
717 | 120 | Salaries for the month of May 946
033 | 136 | " " June 946
500 | 136 | " " July 946
500 | 136 | " " August 946
500 | 136 | " " September 946
500 | 136 | " " October 946
500 | 136 | " " ⟦November⟧ 946
⟦line⟧ | 136 | " " December 946
⟦line⟧ | 133 | " " January 947
⟦line⟧ | 136 | " " February 947
500 | 135 | " " March 947
750 | 133 | " " April 947
500 | 1613 |
500 | 3103 | Carried forward
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Summary of the statement of revenues and expenses
From 6/1/1947 to February 1948
Revenues
1768 459 | Balance at Credit Bank
Allocations from the Corporeal Council for 10 months from 1 May
947 125 ... | until February 948
627 580 | Sewing revenues from 6/1/947 until February 948
Donation from Messrs. Munshi, Ibrahim, and Yaqub, sons of Ezra
10 ... | Cohen
⟦line⟧ 2531/039
Expenses
Salaries for 10 months from 1 June 1947 until
1342 375 | February 948
146 514 | Donations for female students on the occasion of Sukkot
Paid to assist poor girls with their marriages
120 ... | 12 girls, 10 Dinars each
74 216 | General miscellaneous expenses
60 790 | Value of furniture for the sewing school
Rent for the period from 10 October 947 to 9
500 ... | October 948
⟦line⟧
2243 895
287 144 | Balance at Credit Bank
⟦line⟧ 2531/039
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Carried forward | 4814 | 863
Value of sewing items consumed | 215 | 336
Gifts distributed to the school students as follows :- | |
Gifts for the occasion of Sukkot as follows :- | |
By the apprentice Salha Menashi for | |
16 students } 17 300 | |
By the apprentice Habiba Sassoon for | |
4 students } 6 000 | |
By the apprentice Habou Shua for | |
14 students } 14 000 | |
By the apprentice Doris Sion for | |
11 students } 15 750 | |
By the apprentices Simha Shimeon | |
and Salima Karji for 10 students } 12 250 | |
By the apprentices Simha Twena | |
and Seniora Ibrahim for 15 girls } 12 000 | 77 300 |
Gifts for the occasion of Passover for four | |
grades as follows :- | |
45 000 First grade | |
39 750 » Second grade | |
22 000 » Third grade | |
21 500 » Fourth grade | 128 250 | 205 550
| 5235 | 749
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An Appeal to the Sons of the Israelite Community in Baghdad
To the Honorable: ⟦line⟧ Respected
After Greetings:
Our association has been established under the name "Association for Aiding Poor Israelite Girls for Marriage"
That was on October 21st, the year 945. During this period, it has received great support from the honorable sons
of the community through the money and gifts they donated and their attendance at the ceremonies previously held
and the charitable bazaar which was held twice, namely last year and the year before. Our association was able, with what it obtained
from those revenues, to open a school two years ago under the name "Charitable Sewing and Embroidery School
for Girls" located at Ras al-Qarya near the "Al-Khassaki Mosque," where it admitted two hundred and fifty girls
from the poor class who were in a pitiable state. They are now learning sewing and embroidery to arm themselves
with a sharp weapon against unemployment and the undesirable consequences that lie behind it. For the needle and thread are the poor girl's
weapon and her permanent capital.
Our association has assisted approximately one hundred and sixty girls with financial aid for their marriages until the end of
February of the year 948. If this number is small, then this is what calls for haste in extending a helping hand and support
so that the association can carry out the many duties incumbent upon it to help the largest possible number.
Furthermore, our association has decided to hold the third charitable bazaar during the Passover holiday on Tuesday
corresponding to April 27, 1948, at the Adour Aboudi Secondary School for Girls near the American Embassy. Therefore, we
invite the honorable members of our community to contribute to the establishment and revival of this bazaar with what their generous hands bestow
of various goods, funds, and gifts that will be sold in this bazaar. The price of the ticket will be (250)
two hundred and fifty fils. We invite you and call upon you to take part in actual contribution and noble humanitarian work, so respond to
the call to rescue the daughters of your community from the shame and vice they might fall into, which can be avoided before it happens.
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." May God preserve you as a treasure for chivalry and generosity.
The Management
⟦Association for Aiding Poor Girls⟧
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⟦illegible⟧
252
November 28, 945
His Excellency, President of the Society for Aiding Poor Israeli Girls for Marriage, Respectfully
Baghdad
With reference to your letter No. 45/3 dated 11/27/1945
Due to the heavy workload of the Council and in its session ⟦in this session⟧ which will be held on Thursday, 11/29/945
I regret that I am unable to fulfill your request; however, I will inform you at the earliest possible opportunity of another date for the meeting
of your society with the Lay Council.
His Excellency the President
For signature, please
⟦illegible⟧
11/28
⟦illegible⟧
The President
With pain
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Marriage Relief
Society
Baghdad
Society of Marriage
Helpers
Society for Aiding Poor Israelite Girls
for Marriage
Telephone Number 3924
Address: Khan Dallah al-Kabir
Administration of the Lay Council - Baghdad
8
7 / 12 / 1945
File Number
Number: 45/4
Baghdad on: 6 / December 1945
His Excellency, President of the Honorable Israelite Lay Council
After presenting respects.
With reference to the ongoing communication between us, ending with your letter dated 28 / 11 / 1945.
Our project is very important and aims to treat a major social scourge, complete a prominent deficiency, and reform
a major defect in the Israelite community in Baghdad. Our subject was not the distribution of money to
poor girls as assistance for their marriage, but rather it is the subject of opening sewing and knitting institutions and childcare institutes
and others, to include all poor Israelite girls to secure their future and protect their honor, which is the honor of
every individual of the community.
Our society would like to draw the attention of your esteemed council to a fact, which is that almost all sons
of the community appreciated this project as it deserves, and the society received encouragement from them suitable for the present
circumstances. We also thank your esteemed council for its appreciation of the society's efforts in this project of its,
as it was the first to encourage it morally in bringing it into existence. However, this encouragement alone
is not sufficient, as is not hidden from your esteemed council. We were pleased - as we were expecting - when we received your letter
containing the good news of encouragement from the material aspect. However, it stated that the esteemed council
will decide for the project a grant from the community fund in the coming year, which begins from the first of
April 1946.
This postponement is something that breaks our resolve in undertaking the necessary projects. It is not hidden from
your esteemed council that the best of charity is the swiftest. And postponing the matter of assistance for a long period like this
is something that paralyzes the hands of the society, which has allocated a large part of its time to undertake the useful industrial projects
it thought of. We have taken it upon ourselves to carry a heavy burden and we have sacrificed and will sacrifice much of our time
for the sake of this project, and we must carry it out with the utmost speed. Delaying for a period of
months is something that does not harmonize with the noble goal we have undertaken to implement.
Therefore, our society requests that you take this cause of ours into consideration in an urgent manner and
that you allocate to our society a sufficient grant to be paid immediately on account of the budget for the six months ending on
31 March 1946, to be able to implement its resolutions which have remained suspended upon your financial and moral assistance
together. To your excellency, more thanks and respect.
Sincerely,
President of the Society
Write to the Vice President of the Society
that the Lay Council in its session
held on 7 / 12 / 945 decided
to refer the request to the Finance Committee
for deliberation with the Vice President of the Society
and the Secretary
⟦signature⟧
9 / 12
His Excellency the President
For your kind perusal please ⟦signature⟧
8 / 12
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7557
7522
11 December 945
His Excellency, President of the Association for Assisting Poor Israelite Girls for Marriage, Respected
Baghdad
Further to our letter numbered 3530 dated 28 / 11 / 945
And with reference to your letter numbered 4 / 45 dated 6 / 12 / 945
The Council decided in its meeting held on 10 / 12 / 945 to invite three members of your
respected committee (the President, Vice President, and Secretary) to meet with the Council in its next session scheduled to be held
at five o'clock on the evening of Monday, 17 / 12 / 945, to discuss and exchange views
regarding the aid you requested to be allocated to your association.
We kindly ask you to make the necessary arrangements ⟦for your attendance⟧ with the Vice President and the Secretary in the aforementioned session.
S Kh / M
His Excellency the President for signature ⟦...⟧
The President
⟦...⟧
⟦Dr. Nassim⟧
⟦Tawfiq⟧
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Marriage Relief
Society
Baghdad
Marriage Help
Society
Society for Assisting Poor Jewish Girls
for Marriage
Telephone Number 3924
Address: Khan Dallah al-Kabir
Administration of the Lay Council - Baghdad
Number 16
Date 20 / 12 / 1945
File Number
Number: 6 / 945
Baghdad on 20 / 12 / 1945
His Excellency the President of the Respected Jewish Lay Council
After offering respect.
With reference and subsequent to our verbal conversation with your esteemed council in the session
last Monday evening, falling on 17 / 12 / 1945.
We wish to repeat our previous presentations that we offered in the aforementioned session and say that the institution
The first that our society intends to open very urgently needs four thousand dinars, and since
we now have two thousand dinars of it, we have firm hope that your esteemed council will take this case into
consideration and decide to pay us a grant of one thousand dinars to be paid at once now, and if that is not possible,
our society hopes that it will be in two equal installments, one immediate and the second at the beginning of the year
the next financial year.
Our society hopes that your esteemed council will strengthen its resolve and support it for the
sake of laying the foundation stone for the beneficial projects it intends to undertake.
This, and to your Excellency further respect.
Sincerely
President of the Society
⟦illegible⟧
His Excellency the President
For your kind review
⟦illegible⟧
20 / 12
(Deficit) Done
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Marriage Relief | Society for Aiding | Society for Assisting
Society | Israeli Marriages | Poor Israelite Girls for Marriage
Baghdad | Telephone No. 3924
Address: Khan Dallah al-Kabir
942/7
Baghdad on 24 / 1 / 1946
His Excellency the President of the Respectable Lay Council of the Israelite Community
Baghdad
In response to your letter No. 3540 dated 23 / 1 / 1946.
We have received the check numbered 483832 dated 22 / 1 / 46
for the amount of one hundred Dinars, which is the aid amount decided by your esteemed council
for our society; we thank you for it, as we also thank you for your kind wishes for the society.
We have a strong hope that your esteemed council will grant our society sufficient aid
in the upcoming budget starting on 1 April 1946.
Finally, please accept our utmost thanks and respect.
The President
Administration of the Lay Council - Baghdad
No. 25
Date 25 / 1 / 1946
File No. ⟦line⟧
His Excellency the President
Awaiting review ⟦...⟧
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2541
23 January 946
Grant
His Excellency the President of the Society for Aiding Poor Israeli Girls for Marriage
Respectfully,
With reference to your letter numbered 6 / 945 dated 20 / 12 / 945
The Council reviewed your letter referred to above in its meeting held on 21 / 1 / 946
And decided after deliberation to approve granting you a financial aid of (100) Dinars, one hundred Dinars, by check number
483832 dated 22 January 946 on the Ottoman Bank. The Council wished to provide
more financial assistance than this, but upon reviewing the Council's financial situation, it was found to be in a deficit.
This granted amount is merely an annual encouragement for your society. The Council also decided to reconsider the matter
of granting you another aid when submitting the budget for the next fiscal year beginning on April 1, 1946.
Please kindly acknowledge your receipt of the above-mentioned amount, and we wish your society success and prosperity.
⟦signature⟧
The President
23 / 1
⟦illegible⟧
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24 April 946
His Excellency Mr. Heskel Yaqub Murad, the Respected Lawyer
President of the Jewish Association for Assisting Poor Girls to Marry
After greetings and respect,
The charitable bazaar held by your esteemed association at the Diana Summer Cinema
impressed everyone due to the organization and good management displayed. There is no doubt that the respected
members of your association sacrificed much of their precious time and comfort for the success
of this project.
I would like to seize this opportunity to congratulate you on this activity of yours, praying to the Almighty
to guide the steps of your association, which has voluntarily taken upon itself this sacred duty,
towards everything that contains goodness and prosperity.
In conclusion, please accept my respect, with my request to convey my admiration and appreciation to all
the virtuous ladies and gentlemen who participated in the preparation and organization of this
wonderful bazaar.
Sincerely,
Sassoon
President of the Community
⟦illegible⟧
4/25
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221
16/5/1946
Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province
Personnel Affairs
Number: 597
Date: / 5 / 1946
To the Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad
His Excellency the Minister has approved the Jewish Girls' Aid Society
in Baghdad teaching the principles of reading and writing in the Arabic language, specifically in
the first two classes of the factory (Teaching Poor Girls Sewing and Embroidery).
Please inform the aforementioned society of this.
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
A. K. 5/13
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19 May 946
His Excellency, President of the Association for Aiding Poor Girls for Marriage, Respectfully
Greetings
We convey to you below a copy of the letter from the Directorate of Education of Baghdad Province No. 5970
Dated 16 / 5 / 946 for your review.
⟦signature⟧
5/19
Head of the Community
His Excellency the Minister has approved the Association for Aiding Israelite Girls in
Baghdad teaching the principles of reading and writing in the Arabic language, specifically in the first two
classes of the factory (teaching poor girls sewing and embroidery)
Please notify the aforementioned association of this.
Director of Education of Baghdad Province
⟦illegible⟧
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8908
July 14, 1946
His Excellency, the President of the Society for Aiding Poor Israelite Girls
for Marriage, Respectfully.
After greetings,
On the morning of Thursday, July 11th, I visited the charitable sewing and embroidery school
recently opened by your esteemed association, accompanied by Mr. Eliyahu Hayyim Tawfiq and Mr.
Meir Basri, President and Member of the Lay Council. We are very pleased to record here our admiration
and appreciation for the manifestations of organization and cleanliness we witnessed. We cannot
withhold our admiration for the vigor of those in charge of this school for what it has achieved in this
short period of time, as we can appreciate how much this has cost you in
time and comfort.
While we ask you to convey our heartfelt congratulations to the esteemed members of your association
and to all those in charge of this school, we look forward to a prosperous future
for this institution.
Please accept our respect.
President of the Lay Council | Member of the Lay Council | President of the Community
⟦signature⟧ | ⟦signature⟧ | ⟦signature⟧
Sassoon
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27 June 946
Secretariat of the Capital
Baghdad
One of the charitable societies has established a sewing school in
the house numbered 1-7 / 37 located in the Ras al-Qarya neighborhood (near the ⟦Murjan⟧ Mosque)
I request that the aforementioned institution be considered among the institutions exempted from the guard fee.
Respectfully yours.
⟦signature⟧
27/6
Head of the Community
⟦Girls' Sewing School⟧
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No: 1/2/46
His Excellency the Head of the Community, Rabbi Sassoon Khadduri, Respected
His Excellency the President of the Israeli Corporeal Council and its respected members - Baghdad
After offering respect.
Our association is honored to invite you to visit the charitable sewing and embroidery school it established,
Located near Al-Khassaki Mosque, on Tuesday, the next ⟦current⟧, coinciding with 2/7/46 at (8)
o'clock in the morning to inspect its affairs. We hope you will encourage us by accepting this invitation.
And to you, further respect.
President of the Association
Association for Assisting Poor Girls
Association for Assisting Poor Girls
Founded in 1945
Baghdad - BAGHDAD
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Society for Aiding Poor Israelite Girls
for Marriage
No. ⟦42/22⟧
Date ⟦9⟧ July ⟦946⟧
His Excellency President of the Community Rabbi Sassoon Khedhouri
Honorable Mr. Eliyahu Hayyim Tawfiq
" " " Sassoon Abboudi Bashi
" " " Sassoon Murad Sassoon
" " " Ezra Meir Daoud
" " " Zion Shua Gigi
" " " Gurji Yaqub Matalon
" " " Meir Shaul Basri
" " " Moshe Daoud Shohet
" " " Haron Shimon Shamash
After offering respect
Our society is honored to invite you to visit the new sewing and embroidery school it recently opened
located opposite the Al-Khassaki Mosque, at eight o'clock next Thursday morning, July 11,
946. With further respect to your excellency.
Sincerely,
President of the Society
⟦5/8⟧
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Association for Assisting Poor Girls for Marriage
President - | Mr. Heskel Murad Al-Mudami
Vice President - | Mr. Ibrahim Eliyahu Shamshoua
Secretary and Accountant - | Mr. Salman Ezra Sharbani
Members - | Mr. Heskel Ezra Shoa Mushir
| Mr. Shaul Saleh Jasouri
| Mr. Murad Ishaq Cohen
| Mr. Yaqub Meir Al-Sayegh
⟦illegible⟧
Association for Assisting Girls
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1 - Cutting, Tailoring, Sewing, and Embroidery
2 - Childcare and Nursing
3 - Women's Handkerchief Manufacturing
4 - Necktie Manufacturing (Boyunbağı)
5 - Toy Manufacturing for Children
6 - Sports
7 - Washing and Ironing
8 - Artificial Flower Manufacturing
9 - Leather Bag Manufacturing
10 - Hat Manufacturing
11 - Sock Repairing
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Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Number — 817
Date — 27 / 10 / 1947
Honorable Gentlemen
Members of the Association for Aiding Poor Girls
Ibrahim Tweig
Edward Yusuf Samih, Attorney
Israel Nassim Hessai
Anwar Zalkha, Attorney
Daoud Salman Yehuda
Salman Sion Shamna, Attorney
Shimon Sion Sofer
Sion Shua Gigi, Attorney
Abdullah Sion Shamna, Attorney
Ezra Shaul Badiol
Meir Shaul Basri
Greetings
I request the honor of your presence at the Community Presidency headquarters at six-thirty in the evening
on Thursday, 30 / 10 / 1947, for the purpose of deliberating on the status of the Association for Aiding Poor Girls
for Marriage.
Please accept our highest respect;
Sincerely
⟦illegible⟧
President of the Community
⟦Sh. D. Siam Sabri⟧
⟦Wada Samir Dehn⟧
⟦Ibrahim Shukur Hashie'⟧
Meir Shaul Basri
Sion Shua
Salman Shamna
Sion Sion Sofer
For Filing
Association for Aiding Poor Girls
A
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Internal Regulations
of the Association
for the Aid of Poor
Jewish Girls for Marriage
⟦line⟧
Al-Sharqiya Press - Baghdad