Howat-Maxted, Freja Sansour, Leila Brown, Bea Norris, Jacob Zakhariya Abu Aita, aged 90 from Beit Sahour discussing the Ottoman period and World War I <div>Zakhariya Abu Aita (90 years old from Beit Sahour) interviewed by Nisreen Ibrahim on 13 April 1995. <br></div><div><br></div><div>He discusses the following: Ottoman period; looting that took place during World War I; some people emigrated to Jordan (Madaba, Karak and Salt); only the farmers stayed behind; Ottomans used to steal people’s food; military conscription; spread of deadly diseases; women’s lives during the war in Bethlehem and Beit Sahour – they used to collect animal dung, especially from buffalos that the Ottoman army kept in the Latin convent to use for transportation. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Original audio recording: cassette tape <br></div><div>Transcript: word for word. <br></div><div>In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 4 of Box 13. <br></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div> Ottoman Empire and World War I collection;World War I in Bethlehem;Bethlehem oral history;Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem;Locust plague 1915;Bethlehem University;Middle Eastern and African History;Middle Eastern and North African history 2019-08-21
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