%0 Generic %A Howat-Maxted, Freja %A Sansour, Leila %A Brown, Bea %A Norris, Jacob %D 2019 %T Musa Awwad Jadallah, aged 92 from Tuqu' near Bethlehem discussing the Ottoman period and World War I %U https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Musa_Awwad_Jadallah_aged_92_from_Tuqu_near_Bethlehem_discussing_the_Ottoman_period_and_World_War_I/7271183 %R 10.25377/sussex.7271183.v1 %2 https://sussex.figshare.com/ndownloader/files/13398104 %2 https://sussex.figshare.com/ndownloader/files/13398107 %K Ottoman Empire and World War I collection %K World War I in Bethlehem %K Bethlehem oral history %K Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem %K Locust plague 1915 %K Bethlehem University %K Middle Eastern and African History %K Middle Eastern and North African history %X
Musa Awwad Jadallah (92 years old from Tuqu') interviewed by Yasmin Abu Mufareh on 9 July 2005.

He discusses the following: locust plague and how they got rid of locusts by digging holes and burning them inside, as well as through the use of pesticides; poverty caused by the drought of 1916; people used to grind barley to make wheat; the spread of diseases, especially cholera which killed his father and affected his wife.

Original audio recording: cassette tape.
Transcript: word for word.
In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 8 of Box 12.

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.
%I University of Sussex