Jabra Ghabar, from Beit Jala discussing the 1920 great snow and the 1927 earthquake

Title: Jabra Ghabar, from Beit Jala discussing the 1920 great snow and the 1927 earthquake
Description: POOR QUALITY AUDIO. Jabra Ghabar (from Beit Jala) is interviewed by Victoria Abkrian - 1995. Discusses
life during the Ottoman period, World War I and the British Mandate;
talks about the great snow of 1920; discusses the earthquake of 1927 and
how it destroyed people's houses; 4 people from Beit Jala died in the
earthquake as well as some people in Bethlehem; living conditions were
very hard, people lived off their land. Original audio recording: cassette tape. Transcript: word for word. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 18 of Box 19. This
fileset exists as part of the 1920 Great Snow & 1927 Earthquake
collection within the Bethlehem University Oral History project of the
Planet Bethlehem Archive.
Identifier: pb_bu_gse_7952867
Subject: Bethlehem; Palestine; Palestinian Diaspora; British Mandate in Bethlehem; Palestine; Bethlehem snow; 1927 Earthquake; Bethlehem oral history; Bethlehem University; 1920 Great Snow and 1927 Earthquake collection
License: CC BY 4.0
Creator: Victoria Abkrian
Contributor: Adnan Musallam; Niveen Hazboun; Laila Ayyad; Yacoub Alatrash
Date: 1995
Type: digital reproduction of cassette tape and handwritten transcript
Source: Bethlehem University
Language: Arabic
Spatial Coverage: 31.7160165/ 35.1783942
Rights Holder: Bethlehem University

Item sets: The Bethlehem University Oral History Collections; Great Snow and 1927 Earthquake