Elias Hammad from Bethlehem, aged 85 discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

Title: Elias Hammad from Bethlehem, aged 85 discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
Description: Elias Hammad (85 years old from Bethlehem) interviewed by Haya Abu Ramees on 28 June 2006. He discusses the following: military conscription which led some boys to leave for Madaba (in present day Jordan); Ottomans only cared about money; diseases and the locust year; due to the difficulties of World War I some people emigrated to Europe; British Mandate and how the local population initially viewed them favourably.
Original audio recording: cassette tape. Transcript: summary. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 1 of Box 7.
Identifier: pb_bu_wwi_7271075
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: Haya Abu Ramees
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: 31.7053996/ 35.1936877
Rights Holder: Bethlehem University
Date (approximate): 28/06/2006

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