Fadwa Tawfiq Abu Atta, aged 93 from Beit Jala discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

Title: Fadwa Tawfiq Abu Atta, aged 93 from Beit Jala discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
Description: Fadwa Tawfiq Abu Atta (93 years old, born 1907 from Beit Jala) interviewed by Niveen Jabrieh on 22 March 2000. She discusses the following: military conscription during World War I and the injustice of Ottoman rule; people either had to pay or marry a foreign woman to avoid conscription; the Ottoman army used to leer at women and rape them; talks about marriage traditions – how the wedding festival lasted for 10 days; education was simple consisting of just reading and writing; people emigrated because of poverty and conscription; discusses transportation; women of Bethlehem used to dress up; the spread of disease. Original audio recording: cassette tape. Transcript: summary. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 1 of Box 11.
Identifier: pb_bu_wwi_7271165
Subject: Bethlehem; Palestine; Palestinian Diaspora; Ottoman Empire and World War I collection; World War I in Bethlehem; Bethlehem oral history; Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem; Bethlehem University
License: CC BY 4.0
Creator: Niveen Jabrieh
Contributor: Adnan Musallam; Niveen Hazboun; Laila Ayyad; Yacoub Alatrash
Date: 22/03/2000
Type: Digital reproduction of cassette tape and handwritten transcript
Source: Bethlehem University
Language: Arabic
Spatial Coverage: 31.7160165/ 35.1783942
Rights Holder: Bethlehem University

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