Mikhail Bannoura and Jabra Awwad, from Beit Sahour discussing the 1920 great snow and the 1927 earthquake
Item
-
Title
-
Mikhail Bannoura and Jabra Awwad, from Beit Sahour discussing the 1920 great snow and the 1927 earthquake
-
Description
-
Mikhail Bannoura and Jabra Awwad (from Beit Sahour) are interviewed by Nadia Awwad. Interview
focuses on the locust plague of 1915, the great snow of 1920 and the
earthquake of 1927; talks about the sense of social solidarity and
mutual support which helped people get through the difficulties of these
events, especially the earthquake which destroyed many people's houses
in Beit Sahour; people used to help each other reinforce the houses by
erecting iron beams to keep them standing. Original audio recording: cassette tape. Transcript: summary. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 19 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.
-
Identifier
-
pb_bu_gse_7955660
-
Subject
-
Bethlehem
-
Palestine
-
Palestinian Diaspora
-
1920 Great Snow and 1927 Earthquake collection
-
British Mandate in Bethlehem
-
Palestine
-
Bethlehem snow
-
1927 Earthquake
-
Bethlehem oral history
-
Locust plague 1915
-
License
-
CC BY 4.0
-
Creator
-
Nadia Awwad
-
Contributor
-
Adnan Musallam
-
Niveen Hazboun
-
Laila Ayyad
-
Yacoub Alatrash
-
Type
-
digital reproduction of cassette tape and handwritten transcript
-
Source
-
Bethlehem University
-
Language
-
Arabic
-
Spatial Coverage
-
31.6978535/ 35.2197752
-
Rights Holder
-
Bethlehem University
-
Date (approximate)
-
c.1992-2009
