Issa al-Araj, from Bethlehem discussing the 1920 great snow
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Title
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Issa al-Araj, from Bethlehem discussing the 1920 great snow
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Description
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Issa al-Araj (92 years old from Bethlehem) is interviewed by Grace al-Ali on 15 April 1995. Interview
focuses on the great snow of 1920; snow was 2 metres deep and people
could not even go outside; people had to burn wood to keep warm;
everyone was hungry and cold; illness and disease quickly spread; the
snow lasted for a whole month; people used to work together to clear the
snow; the snowfall severely damaged the houses in Bethlehem and
especially the souq; poor people were the worst affected. Original audio recording: cassette tape. Transcript: summary. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 20 of Box 21. 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.
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Identifier
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pb_bu_gse_7955699
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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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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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Grace al-Ali
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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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15/04/1995
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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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31.7053996/ 35.1936877
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Rights Holder
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Bethlehem University
