Original Eight Judaica Synagogue Donation Receipts from Iran, 1930s–1970s

A rare group of Iranian Jewish paper ephemera documenting synagogue finance, donation culture, religious obligation, and communal recordkeeping from the 1930s through the 1970s.

Title: Original Eight Rare Judaica Synagogue Donation Receipts from Iran
Country: Iran
Years: 1930s–1970s
Language: Hebrew and Judeo-Persian
Format: Printed synagogue donation receipts
Number of items: 8
Frame: Unframed
Condition: Original paper receipts with fold lines, age toning, creasing, stamps, handwritten notations, edge wear, small tears, and handling marks.

This archive group documents synagogue donations, religious pledges, communal fundraising, and Jewish institutional administration in Iran across several decades. The receipts are associated with Jewish communal contexts in Darvazeh Shemiran, Isfahan, synagogue funds, and a synagogue and kindergarten donation setting.

The printed forms preserve the administrative language of Iranian Jewish communal life: donations recorded in rials, Hebrew pledge formulas, synagogue fund terminology, handwritten donor entries, dates, institutional stamps, and receipt fields used for local religious and educational support.

Several receipts incorporate Jewish visual motifs, including Moses holding the Tablets of the Law, Stars of David, floral ornaments, a Torah ark emblem, a menorah insignia, and printed decorative borders. The texts include biblical and liturgical phrases commonly used in charitable and synagogue contexts, including formulations drawn from Deuteronomy and Isaiah.

Included in the archive group:

1. Decorated Synagogue Receipt from Isfahan, Iran, 1933
2. Moses Synagogue Donation Receipt, Iran, 1930sl
3. Moses Synagogue Donation Receipt, Iran, 1930s
4. Darvazeh Shemiran Synagogue Donation Receipt, Iran, 1953
5. Jewish Synagogue and Kindergarten Donation Receipt, Iran, 1956
6. Decorated Star of David Synagogue Receipt, Iran, 1960s–1970s
7. Moses Synagogue Receipt, Iran, 1960s–1970s
8. Decorated Great Synagogue Receipt with Star of David, Iran, 1960s–1970s

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