Yusef Abu Haja, aged 112 from al-Khader discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

Title: Yusef Abu Haja, aged 112 from al-Khader discussing the Ottoman period and World War I
Description: Yusef Abu Haja (112 years old from al-Khader) interviewed by Nisreen al-Qutb on 12 April 1995. He discusses the following: people were not prepared for World War I; people used to live off whatever they harvested, especially wheat; his conscription into the Ottoman army and how he ran away; locust plague - how people had to collect the eggs and anyone refusing to do this would be sent to prison; Jewish settlers came to Palestine, especially in Jerusalem; the situation when the British arrived and the uprisings against them; the drought year of 1916. Original audio recording: cassette tape. Transcript: word for word. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 15 of Box 8.
Identifier: pb_bu_wwi_7271141
Subject: Bethlehem; Palestine; Palestinian Diaspora; Ottoman Empire and World War I collection; World War I in Bethlehem; Palestine; Bethlehem oral history; Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem; Locust plague 1915; Bethlehem University; British Mandate in Palestine
License: CC BY 4.0
Creator: Nisreen al-Qutb
Contributor: Adnan Musallam; Niveen Hazboun; Laila Ayyad; Yacoub Alatrash
Date: 12/04/1995
Type: Digital reproduction of cassette tape and handwritten transcript
Source: Bethlehem University
Language: Arabic
Spatial Coverage: 31.6948285/ 35.1619902
Rights Holder: Bethlehem University

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