Issa al-Araj, from Bethlehem discussing the 1920 great snow Freja Howat-Maxted Jacob Norris Leila Sansour Bea Brown 10.25377/sussex.7955699.v1 https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Issa_al-Araj_from_Bethlehem_discussing_the_1920_great_snow/7955699 <div>Issa al-Araj (92 years old from Bethlehem) is interviewed by Grace al-Ali on 15 April 1995.</div><div><br></div><div>Interview focuses on the great snow of 1920; snow was 2 metres deep and people could not even go outside; people had to burn wood to keep warm; everyone was hungry and cold; illness and disease quickly spread; the snow lasted for a whole month; people used to work together to clear the snow; the snowfall severely damaged the houses in Bethlehem and especially the souq; poor people were the worst affected.</div><div><br></div>Original audio recording: cassette tape.<br>Transcript: summary.<br><div>In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 20 of Box 21.</div><div><br></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. 2019-08-21 07:27:14 1920 Great Snow and 1927 Earthquake collection British Mandate in Palestine Bethlehem snow Bethlehem oral history Bethlehem University Middle Eastern and African History Middle Eastern and North African history