Dheeb Najajra, aged 95 from Nahalin discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

Title: Dheeb Najajra, aged 95 from Nahalin discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
Description: 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.
Identifier: pb_bu_wwi_7271162
Subject: Bethlehem; Palestine; Palestinian Diaspora; Ottoman Empire and World War I collection; World War I in Bethlehem; Bethlehem oral history; Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem; Locust plague 1915; Bethlehem University; British Mandate in Palestine
License: CC BY 4.0
Creator: Azizah Ghayada
Contributor: Adnan Musallam; Niveen Hazboun; Laila Ayyad; Yacoub Alatrash
Type: Digital reproduction of cassette tape and handwritten transcript
Source: Bethlehem University
Language: Arabic
Spatial Coverage: 31.6856255/ 35.1116072
Rights Holder: Bethlehem University
Date (approximate): c.1992-2008

Item sets: The Bethlehem University Oral History Collections; The Ottoman Empire and World War I