Hassan Abd al-Latif from Battir, aged 77 discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
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Title
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Hassan Abd al-Latif from Battir, aged 77 discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
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Description
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Hassan Abd al-Latif (77 years old from Battir) interviewed by Sa'ida al-Batma. He describes the following: tales related to him by his father and grandfather about World War I and the British Mandate; locusts came from the east from Jordan and the noise they used to make; to get rid of the locusts they made a tunnel in the land with a metal cover on top so the locusts would fall in and then they would burn them; locust plague resulted in starvation as they ate all the crops; coastal areas were less damaged by the locusts; there were no deaths in Battir; the General Strike of 1936 and how it happened by chance; during the British Mandate many people sold their lands. Original audio recording: cassette tape. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 1 of Box 9.
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Identifier
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pb_bu_wwi_7271144
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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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Sa'ida al-Batma
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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
