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IJA 663

Meir Elias Hospital and Community Endowments

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These are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish Community related to the Meir Elias Hospital Endowments, the community endowment, and forms for the government regarding the endowments. There is a lawful endowment issued by Iraqi Ministry of Justice for a shop at Meir Elias Hospital in 1925.

Metadata

Archive Reference
IJA 663
Item Number
11320
Date
Approx. January 1, 1921 to December 31, 1930
Languages
Arabic
Keywords
Financial, Ministry of Justice, Ledger, Deed, File Folder, Typed, Iraqi Government, Endowment, Baghdadi Jewish Community, Meir Elias Hospital, Property Commission, President of the Jewish Community, Waqf, Property, Receipt, Correspondence, Annotation, Handwritten, Hospital

AI en Translation, Pages 1-25

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Presidency of the Israelite Community
Baghdad
Endowments Committee (Hospitals)
Portfolio Number: 17
Registry Number:
Subject: A shop from the endowments of Meir Elias Hospital
Liwa (Province): Baghdad
Qada (District): /
Nahiyah (Sub-district): /
Quarter and Street: Torah - Sheikh Ishaq
Serial Number: 446
Door Numbers: 99/147
Property Type: Endowment
Property Category: Shop
Land Registry Map Number:
Notes
DIV. & TAB NO.
TO
FROM
NAME
1/1/1949

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The Jewish Community of Baghdad
Serial Number 179
Immovable Property Register
Name of the institution to which the property belongs or for which it is endowed ⟦line⟧
Draft
1 Type of Property | Shop | 11 Date of Endowment | 10 Rabi' al-Awwal year 1322
2 Quarter and Street | Torah, Sheikh Ishaq | 12 Authority that issued the endowment | Baghdad Sharia Court
3 Modern Door Number | 22 / 127 | 13 Name of the current trustee and how appointed | Head of the Jewish Community (according to endowment conditions)
4 Property Category: Is it private property or endowment? | Endowment | 14 Guardianship Conditions | Guardianship is for the designated Abu Hakham Bashi Abraham Hillel, and upon his death and the extinction of his descendants eligible for guardianship, it goes to the Hakham Bashi of Baghdad if he is alive or instead ⟦illegible⟧
5 Is it registered in the Land Registry (Tabu) or not? | Yes, registered | 15 Entity for which the property is endowed | For the Meir Elias Hospital
6 In whose name is it registered? | Hakham Bashi in Baghdad Abraham Moshe Hillel | 16 Is the property registered in a pseudonym and how so? |
7 Date of the Land Deed | September 925 | 17 Is there any other document regarding this property, its ownership, or the right of disposal? If yes, state its nature, date, and number | Nothing
8 Land Registry Serial Number | 426 | 18 How it is used at the present time | For investment
9 Value recorded in the Land Deed | ⟦illegible⟧ | 19 Entity to which the revenues are spent | Money is distributed to the eligible unified claimants in the House of Healing for this hospital
10 Endowment Number | 92 | 20 Is there any dispute regarding it? |
Notes :-
His son Munir shall not be restricted as an overseer with the mentioned trustee, and if his son
Ezra is absent, then upon his death, the oversight shall pass to the most upright of
the children of the children of the children of the aforementioned, generation after generation and in succession, and the children of
the children of his children, and if they become extinct, the oversight returns to the person entitled
to the aforementioned guardianship, and the guardianship and oversight shall be in one person

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Presidency of the Jewish Community
Baghdad
Property Committee (Hospitals)
Subject: A shop from the endowments of Meir Elias Hospital
Property Documents Register
Number 179
Land Registry (Tabu)
⟦Kingdom of Iraq⟧
Document
Date / / 19
From book 19
This copy was reproduced on / / 19
Notes
NAME
FROM
TO
DIV. & TAB NO.