10.25377/sussex.7952933.v1 Freja Howat-Maxted Freja Howat-Maxted Jacob Norris Jacob Norris Leila Sansour Leila Sansour Bea Brown Bea Brown Musa Abd al-Karim, from Bethlehem discussing the 1920 great snow University of Sussex 2019 1920 Great Snow and 1927 Earthquake collection British Mandate in Palestine Bethlehem snow Bethlehem oral history Bethlehem University Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem World War I in Bethlehem Middle Eastern and African History Middle Eastern and North African history 2019-08-21 07:27:13 Dataset https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Musa_Abd_al-Karim_from_Bethlehem_discussing_the_1920_great_snow/7952933 <div><div><div><div>POOR QUALITY AUDIO.<br>Musa Abd al-Karim (born in 1907, from Bethlehem) is interviewed by Sahdi Saber - 26 May 1995.</div><div><br></div><div>Talks about the Ottoman period and how the Ottomans used to steal food and wheat from local people to feed the army; discusses the great snow of 1920 which lasted for a whole month causing great difficulties and shortages of food; during the great snow people used to keep warm by buring wood fires; many houses in Bethlehem were ruined by the great snow such as that of Musa Khalil in the souq.</div><div><br></div><div>Original audio recording: cassette tape.<br>Transcript: summary.<br>In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 19 of Box 19.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div></div></div><br></div>