Woman from Beit Sahour, aged 88 from Beit Sahour discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
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Title
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Woman from Beit Sahour, aged 88 from Beit Sahour discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
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Description
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Woman (88 years old, born 1912, from Beit Sahour) interviewed by Shireen Qumsieh on 27 November 1998. She discusses the following: starvation during World War I; al-Husseini told people not to sell their property to Jewish settlers but Jews would beat people who refused to sell their land; how bad the war between Britain and the Ottoman Empire was; ‘seferberlik’ (Ottoman military conscription); people used to search horse dung for bits of barley to eat; under the British Mandate people were forced to sell their houses to foreigners without knowing that it was for Jewish settlers.
Original audio recording: cassette tape. Transcript: summary. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 11 of Box 8. This fileset exists as part of the Ottoman Empire and the 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_7271132
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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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Palestine
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Bethlehem oral history
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Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem
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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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Shireen Qumsieh
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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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27/11/1998
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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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31.6978535/ 35.2197752
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Rights Holder
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Bethlehem University
