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%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