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Elias Hammad from Bethlehem, aged 85 discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

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posted on 2019-08-21, 07:26 authored by Freja Howat-Maxted, Leila Sansour, Bea Brown, Jacob NorrisJacob Norris
Elias Hammad (85 years old from Bethlehem) interviewed by Haya Abu Ramees on 28 June 2006.

He discusses the following: military conscription which led some boys to leave for Madaba (in present day Jordan); Ottomans only cared about money; diseases and the locust year; due to the difficulties of World War I some people emigrated to Europe; British Mandate and how the local population initially viewed them favourably.

Original audio recording: cassette tape.
Transcript: summary.
In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 1 of Box 7.

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.

History

Project

Collection

Creator

Haya Abu Ramees

Contributors

Adnan Musallam, Niveen Hazboun, Laila Ayyad, Yacoub Alatrash

Date

28/06/2006

Type

Digital reproduction of cassette tape and handwritten transcript

Source

Bethlehem University

Language

Arabic

Spatial

31.7053996,35.1936877

Spatial Relation

Bethlehem

Identifier

pb_bu_wwi_020060000-0024aa.mp3, pb_bu_wwi_020060000-0024ab.pdf

Rights

Bethlehem University

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    Keywords

    Ottoman Empire and World War I collectionWorld War I in BethlehemBethlehem oral historyOttoman Empire in BethlehemLocust plague 1915Bethlehem UniversityBritish Mandate in PalestineMiddle Eastern and African HistoryMiddle Eastern and North African history

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