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Jabra Ghabar, from Beit Jala discussing the 1920 great snow and the 1927 earthquake
dataset
posted on 2019-08-21, 07:27 authored by Jacob NorrisJacob Norris, Freja Howat-Maxted, Leila Sansour, Bea BrownPOOR QUALITY AUDIO.
Discusses
life during the Ottoman period, World War I and the British Mandate;
talks about the great snow of 1920; discusses the earthquake of 1927 and
how it destroyed people's houses; 4 people from Beit Jala died in the
earthquake as well as some people in Bethlehem; living conditions were
very hard, people lived off their land.
Jabra Ghabar (from Beit Jala) is interviewed by Victoria Abkrian - 1995.
Original audio recording: cassette tape.
Transcript: word for word.In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 18 of Box 19.
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.
