Hassan Abd al-Latif, aged 77 from Battir; Khalil Abu Hassan, aged 78 from Battir; and Abd al-Hamid Abu Na'ma, aged 105 from Battir, discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
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Title
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Hassan Abd al-Latif, aged 77 from Battir; Khalil Abu Hassan, aged 78 from Battir; and Abd al-Hamid Abu Na'ma, aged 105 from Battir, 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), Khalil Abu Hassan (78 years old from Battir), and Abd al-Hamid Abu Na'ma (105 years old from Battir) interviewed by Jamila Abd al-Latif on 17 June1995. They discuss the following: before World War I people used to live from their agriculture and the situation was okay then after the war everything became worse; many of the village men went to war and some never came back; locust plague and starvation; some people ran away to evade military conscription. Original audio recording: cassette tape. Transcript: summary. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 13 of Box 8. 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.
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Identifier
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pb_bu_wwi_7271138
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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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License
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CC BY 4.0
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Creator
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Jamila Abd al-Latif
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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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Date
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17/06/1995
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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
