Dheeb Najajra, aged 95 from Nahalin discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
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Title
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Dheeb Najajra, aged 95 from Nahalin discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
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Description
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Dheeb Najarja (95 years old from Nahalin) interviewed by Azizah Ghayada. He discusses the following: Ottoman and British periods; because of the injustice from Turkey people were extremely poor and used to pick the barley out of animal dung to eat; locusts and the lack of rain; when the British came they distributed food. Bethlehem was empty of men because so many had run away to avoid conscription. Original audio recording: cassette tape. Transcript: summary. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as FIle 8 of Box 9. This fileset exists as part of the Ottoman Empire and World War I
collection within the Bethlehem University Oral History project of the
Planet Bethlehem Archive.
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Identifier
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pb_bu_wwi_7271162
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Subject
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Bethlehem
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Palestine
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Palestinian Diaspora
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Ottoman Empire and World War I collection
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World War I in Bethlehem
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Bethlehem oral history
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Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem
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Locust plague 1915
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Bethlehem University
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British Mandate in Palestine
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License
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CC BY 4.0
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Creator
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Azizah Ghayada
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Contributor
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Adnan Musallam
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Niveen Hazboun
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Laila Ayyad
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Yacoub Alatrash
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Type
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Digital reproduction of cassette tape and handwritten transcript
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Source
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Bethlehem University
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Language
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Arabic
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Spatial Coverage
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31.6856255/ 35.1116072
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Rights Holder
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Bethlehem University
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Date (approximate)
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c.1992-2008