Jamila Shomali, from Beit Sahour discussing the 1927 earthquake
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Title
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Jamila Shomali, from Beit Sahour discussing the 1927 earthquake
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Description
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Jamila Shomali (78 years old from Beit Sahour) is interviewed with Odai Musleh. Discusses
the earthquake of 1927; when the earthquake struck her family ran
outside the house immediately; those houses that were not built strongly
fell down; in one house there were 5 brothers trapped inside causing them
to die when the house collapsed; people were working when the
earthquake struck as it was 2pm and it was summer; talks about the great
snow of 1920 and how it covered all the houses and made life very
difficult as people could not leave their houses and had to burn wood to
keep warm. Original audio recording: cassette tape. Transcript: summary. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as FIle 17 of Box 21. This
fileset exists as part of the 1920 Great Snow and 1927 Earthquake
collection within the Bethlehem University Oral History project of the
Planet Bethlehem Archive.
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Identifier
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pb_bu_gse_7953008
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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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1920 Great Snow and 1927 Earthquake collection
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British Mandate in Bethlehem
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Palestine
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Bethlehem snow
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1927 Earthquake
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Bethlehem oral history
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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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Odai Musleh
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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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31.6978535/ 35.2197752
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Rights Holder
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Bethlehem University
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Date (approximate)
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c.1992-2008
