Muhammad al-Sheikh, aged 90 from Bethlehem discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

Title: Muhammad al-Sheikh, aged 90 from Bethlehem discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
Description: POOR QUALITY AUDIO.
Muhammad al-Sheikh (90 years old from Bethlehem), from the Salah family, interviewed by Sara Abu Kamel on 1 April 1994. He discusses the following: Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II refused to allow the Zionist movement to create a Jewish national home in Palestine; locust plague; the government ordered local people to collect and burn locusts; the great snow of 1920 lasted for a week; starvation during World War I and ‘seferberlik’ (Ottoman military conscription); modes of transportation on camel and horseback; houses were made from clay and rocks; spread of diseases. Original audio recording: cassette tape. Transcript: summary. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 12 of Box 12.
Identifier: pb_bu_wwi_7271537
Subject: Bethlehem; Palestine; Palestinian Diaspora; Ottoman Empire and World War I collection; World War I in Bethlehem; Bethlehem oral history; Locust plague 1915; Bethlehem University
License: CC BY 4.0
Creator: Sara Abu Kamel
Contributor: Adnan Musallam; Niveen Hazboun; Laila Ayyad; Yacoub Alatrash
Date: 04/01/1994
Type: Digital reproduction of cassette tape and handwritten transcript
Source: Bethlehem University
Language: Arabic
Spatial Coverage: 31.7053996/ 35.1936877
Rights Holder: Bethlehem University

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