Digital Library

Leviticus with haftarot and Sabbath morning service

Tikkunei Zohar, a Kabbalistic text

Midrash/commentary on Psalms, Samuel and Proverbs

Leviticus with Aramaic translation and rabbinic commentaries; Vilna edition

A Jerusalem travel and devotional work organized around biblical places

Book of Ezekiel with Aramaic translation and rabbinic commentary

Commentary connected with Nahmanidean philosophical thought

Prayer-book section for the three pilgrimage festivals

First volume of a Hebrew dictionary printed in Aleppo

Fragment/section from the Zohar

Deuteronomy accompanied by rabbinic commentaries

Song of Songs with Judeo-German material and commentary; Pressburg

Section of tractate Berakhot with commentaries

Passover Haggadah printed in Vienna with French translation and color illustrations

Modern Hebrew university textbook on the foundations of sociology

Torah printed in Judeo-Arabic; Vienna edition

Responsa volume including material on Bava Metzia; Venice

Baghdad-printed prayer book, including Hoshanah Rabbah material

Babylonian Talmud tractate Shevuot; Vilna

Jewish ethical work with extensive handwritten annotations

Isaiah and Jeremiah with Aramaic and rabbinic commentaries

Legal rulings by Hakham Abdallah Somekh on Joseph Karo

Song of Songs with Baghdadi Judeo-Arabic translation and commentary

Liturgical poem associated with Purim in the Baghdadi Jewish community

Exodus with Aramaic, commentaries, haftarot and Sabbath service material

Commentary and sermons on Numbers

Afternoon and evening prayer book following Baghdadi custom

Liturgy for multiple services; opening pages include handwriting

Sephardic afternoon and evening prayer book; Jerusalem

Sephardic prayer book containing Judeo-Arabic

Prayer book containing Selihot and Tikkun Hatzot

Volume of the Writings including Daniel and Chronicles with commentary

Responsa volume printed in Livorno

Modern Iranian encyclopedia, personalities section; Iran, 1979

Torah commentary by Hakham Yosef Hayyim (Ben Ish Hai)

Fragment from a Jewish legal work

Psalms with multiple commentaries, including Yiddish material

Hebrew Bible dictionary printed in Sighet, Hungary

Second volume of responsa; Jerusalem

Hoshen Mishpat section of the Shulhan Arukh

Sermons and commentary; Izmir

Talmud commentary printed in Livorno

Baghdadi Mincha and Maariv prayer book

Work on Jewish customs and practices printed in Baghdad

Mishnah, order Taharot; Venice edition

Bible volume containing Joshua, Judges and Samuel with extensive commentaries

Second volume of Tikkunei Zohar; includes a Baghdad-printed Judeo-Arabic work

Hanukkah prayers and narrative in Judeo-Arabic

Stories of Joseph printed in Baghdad

Judeo-Arabic literary/religious work printed in Baghdad

Award booklets, regulations, curriculum, examinations and other records relating to Baghdadi Jewish schools.

Student files containing photographs, examinations, certificates, admissions material, medical notes and correspondence.

Membership and financial records documenting the administration of the Baghdadi Jewish community.

Records concerning the administrative committee and community elections during the 1960s.

Construction contract and design documents for additions to the Frank Iny School, 1956–1957.

Administrative records, class composition and student rosters for the 1957–1958 school period.

Community verification certificates recording life events such as births, engagements, marriages and dowry-related matters, 1942–1946.

Financial receipts documenting school and community expenses.

Architectural and property plans associated with Shamash Secondary School.

Certificates documenting births and marriages, including records of events dating from the late nineteenth century through 1946.

Class rosters documenting students in the two Baghdadi Jewish schools, 1965–1970.

Correspondence concerning harassment, study abroad, financial assistance and income-tax matters.

Financial and administrative documents from 1929–1931.

Records of Frank Iny and Shamash schools, including student certificates and examination materials, 1960–1962.

Records and plans relating to new community buildings, 1948–1951.

Legal records concerning Iraqi citizenship legislation and related court cases, 1950–1967.

French-language class rosters from Frank Iny School, 1970.

School rosters and grade records from 1968–1970.

Financial documents associated with the school, 1958–1959.

Student folders with photographs and educational documentation.

Blank school stationery and the beginning of a letter connected with Frank Iny School.

Financial records tied to the Jewish Hospital and travel expenses in the 1950s.

Property material and a ledger identifying community members receiving financial assistance after the June 1941 Farhud.

Correspondence from Baghdad’s Jewish religious court, 1922.

Tax, endowment and administrative records of the Baghdadi Jewish community.

Lists documenting assistance needed by victims of the June 1941 Farhud.

Religious-court records concerning marriage and divorce cases from 1929–1970.

Financial receipts and property records connected to community assets and the Ezra Menahem Daniel endowment.

Baghdadi Jewish community legal and administrative correspondence spanning 1919–1960.

Correspondence documenting administration and concerns relating to Baghdad’s Jewish Hospital.

Correspondence relating to citizenship status of Jewish establishment employees, 1951–1963.

A mixed body of court, burial, citizenship and correspondence records, 1944–1960.

Legal material concerning a property and tenant dispute within the historical community record.

Community-issued verification certificates documenting members and family-status matters.

Correspondence concerning property taxation between government offices and the Baghdadi Jewish community.

Administrative material touching schools, cemetery matters, travel, burial society work and other community expenses.

Administrative and property documentation concerning the Ezra Menahem Daniel charitable endowment.

Certificates documenting community identity, occupations, lineage and citizenship-related matters.

Records linking endowment administration with the Administrative Committee for Iraqi Jews.

Records documenting assets and property managed by a Jewish educational or religious committee.

Financial records and correspondence relating to Jewish educational institutions.

Contracts, bills and related administrative records from community institutions.

Records concerning the establishment of a technical school and community property matters.

Records concerning employment, financial matters and university scholarship support.

Official correspondence between Iraqi government bodies and Jewish schools in Baghdad.

Administrative records concerning charitable endowments of the Jewish community.

A group of community verification certificates preserved in the Iraqi Jewish Archive.

Wedding registry material documenting marriages in the final years before the community’s mass departure.

Exam records from Shamash Secondary School documenting educational life and standards.

An interview transcript preserving first-person historical memory of Jewish life in Iraq.

Visual record associated with Meir Taweig Synagogue in Baghdad.

Visual record associated with Frank Iny School in Baghdad.

Visual record associated with Al-Habibiyah Jewish Cemetery in Baghdad.

Visual record associated with Tomb of Joshua the High Priest in Baghdad.

Visual record associated with Tomb of Ezekiel in Al-Kifl.

Visual record associated with Tomb of Ezra in Al-Uzair.

Visual record associated with Tomb of Nahum in Alqosh.

Visual record associated with Old Jewish Quarter in Mosul.

Visual record associated with Sassoon Synagogue in Mosul. The photograph is used as contextual imagery and is not claimed to depict the exact site.

Visual record associated with Grave of Asenath Barzani in Amediye. The photograph is used as contextual imagery and is not claimed to depict the exact site.

Portrait or contextual visual record associated with Sassoon Eskell.

Portrait or contextual visual record associated with Yosef Hayyim (Ben Ish Chai).

Portrait or contextual visual record associated with Abdallah Somekh.

Portrait or contextual visual record associated with Ezra Dangoor.

Portrait or contextual visual record associated with Menahem Saleh Daniel.

Portrait or contextual visual record associated with Anwar Shaul.

Portrait or contextual visual record associated with Mir Basri.

Portrait or contextual visual record associated with Shafiq Ades.

Portrait or contextual visual record associated with Naim Dangoor.

Portrait or contextual visual record associated with Sami Michael.

Portrait or contextual visual record associated with Eli Amir.

Portrait or contextual visual record associated with Shimon Ballas.

Portrait or contextual visual record associated with Sasson Somekh.

Portrait or contextual visual record associated with Shmuel Moreh.

Portrait or contextual visual record associated with Edwin Shuker.

Portrait or contextual visual record associated with Ronny Someck.

NARA staff evaluate archival materials.

NARA staff evaluating a book from the Iraqi Jewish Archive.

Photograph documenting image-processing work during preservation.

Photograph documenting collaborative preservation work.

Photographic record of a map showing the Assyrian Empire and Eastern Mediterranean region.

Photographic record of a Zohar volume/object in the archive.

Historic wedding photograph preserved in the Iraqi Jewish Archive.

Photographic record of a Hebrew Bible associated with Venice printing.

Photograph of a 1977 letter to Iraq’s Minister of Information from the President of the Jewish Community in Baghdad.

Photographic record of a Torah case or related ritual object in the collection.

Photographic record of a fragment from an educational text.

Photograph of a 1918 letter from the Military Governor regarding a sheep allotment.

Photographic record of a letter dated 11 July 1947.

Photograph documenting digitized Iraqi Jewish Archive materials.

Historic school-children photograph preserved by the Iraqi Jewish Archive.

Photographic record of a school certificate.

Photograph of a 1965 letter from Shamash Secondary School to the College Entrance Examination Board.

Photographic record of a religious guidebook.

Photograph showing the interior of a primer or educational book.

Photograph of the cover of a primer or educational book.

Photograph documenting mold remediation of Iraqi Jewish Archive materials.

Photographic record of a prayer book in the Iraqi Jewish Archive.

Photographic record of a Passover Haggadah.

Photograph documenting archive materials packed for shipment during the preservation project.