Hasan Muhammad Abd al-Latif, aged 67 from Battir discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
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Title
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Hasan Muhammad Abd al-Latif, aged 67 from Battir discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
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Description
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Hasan Muhammad Abd al-Latif (67 years old from Battir) interviewed by Reem al-Batma. He discusses the following: economic situation in Battir which was dependent on farming and the whole family working together; how they used to live in those days including the use of gas lamps to light the houses and how people used to dress; only education received was learning the Quran; military conscription started from age 16; it became more common for men from the village to marry women from other villages and towns; when World War I started most of the men from the village were taken away to military conscription; when somebody in the village died there were no men to bury the body; locust plague; agriculture was severely affected by the war; Ottoman army diverted the village springs for their war effort; when the war ended the British built houses for the employees of the train station. Original audio recording: cassette tape. Transcript: word for word. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 1 of Box 13.
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Identifier
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pb_bu_wwi_7271546
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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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Reem al-Batma
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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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31.7281985/ 35.1292772
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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
