Abu Samra Saleh from al-Khader discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

• Main Authors: Freja Howat-Maxted, Leila Sansour, Bea Brown, Jacob Norris
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Middle Eastern and African History; World War I in Palestine; Bethlehem oral history; Locust plague 1915; Bethlehem University; British Mandate in Palestine; sami
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.25377/sussex.7271099.v1; https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/Abu_Samra_Saleh_from_al-Khader_discussing_the_Ottoman_period_and_World_War_I/7271099

POOR AUDIO QUALITY. Abu Samra Saleh (from al-Khader) interviewed by Sami Salhab on 11 December 1998. He discusses the following: Ottoman and British rule; Ottoman period was good until they started military conscription, after which the situation became worse; disease; locust plague and the great snow of 1920 that covered the city for 14 days during which time people helped each other to clear the snow; the only education was in religious schools; when Britain took control of Palestine the country became a mess. Original audio recording: cassette tape. Transcript: summary. In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 3 of Box 8. This fileset exists as part of the Ottoman Empire and World War I collection within the Bethlehem University Oral History project of the Planet Bethlehem Archive.