Nicola Saras from Beit Jala, aged 89, discussing the Ottoman Period and World War I

Title: Nicola Saras from Beit Jala, aged 89, discussing the Ottoman Period and World War I
Description: POOR QUALITY AUDIO. Nicola Saras (89 years old from Beit Jala) interviewed by Nisreen Khaliliya. He discusses the following: World War I and the Ottoman period; people suffered from hunger and poverty; initially the Ottomans did not conscript Christians into the army but after a while they began to conscript Christians too whilst permitting those who could pay to buy themselves out of it; a man from Beit Jala who refused to pay to avoid conscription was killed by the Ottoman army. Original audio recording: cassette tape.In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was originally categorised as File 2 of Box 8.
Identifier: pb_bu_wwi_7271096
Subject: Bethlehem; Palestine; Palestinian Diaspora; Ottoman Empire and World War I collection; World War I in Bethlehem; Bethlehem oral history; Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem; Locust plague 1915; Bethlehem University
License: CC BY 4.0
Creator: Nisreen Khaliliya
Contributor: Adnan Musallam; Niveen Hazboun; Laila Ayyad; Yacoub Alatrash
Type: Digital reproduction of cassette tape and handwritten transcript
Source: Bethlehem University
Language: Arabic
Spatial Coverage: 31.7160165/ 35.1783942
Rights Holder: Bethlehem University
Date (approximate): c.1992-2008

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