Wadie Salah, 103 years old from al-Ta'amra (from the Salah family); Salem Salah, 103 years old from al-Ta'amra (from the Salah family); Mra'e Sha'ebat, 95 years old from Beit Sahour; and Khadeja Ramadan, 95 years old from al-Khader discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
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Title
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Wadie Salah, 103 years old from al-Ta'amra (from the Salah family); Salem Salah, 103 years old from al-Ta'amra (from the Salah family); Mra'e Sha'ebat, 95 years old from Beit Sahour; and Khadeja Ramadan, 95 years old from al-Khader discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
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Description
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Wadie Salah (103 years old from al-Ta'amra) interviewed in 1995. He discusses the following: locust plague and how they used to put locusts in a hole and burn them; spread of disease and starvation during World War I; people used to collect animal dung and dead animal bones and boil them in water to survive. Salem Salah (103 years old from al-Ta'amra) He discusses the following: locust plague; emigration caused by the dire economic situation during the war; people used to eat herbs to survive. Mra‘e Sha‘ebat (95 years old from Beit Sahour). She discusses the following: locust plague and how they multiplied because every egg contained 99 locusts; spread of disease, especially cholera; people used to travel east to find food to bring back; discusses Ottoman military conscription. Khadeja Ramadan (95 years old from al-Khader). She discusses the following: locust plague - the appearance of the the locusts and their large size; used to put the locusts in a hole and burn them; the locusts eggs meant they kept multiplying; military conscription – anyone caught trying to run away would be killed. Original audio recording: 2 cassette tapes. Transcript: word for word. In the original collection at Bethlehem University these cassette tapes were categorised as File 3 of Box 13.
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Identifier
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pb_bu_wwi_7272812
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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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Nada Ramadan
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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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31.5695325/ 35.2211752
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Rights Holder
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Bethlehem University
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Temporal Coverage
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14/03/1995 - 15/03/1995
