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Musa Abd al-Karim, from Bethlehem discussing the 1920 great snow
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posted on 2019-08-21, 07:27 authored by Freja Howat-Maxted, Jacob NorrisJacob Norris, Leila Sansour, Bea BrownPOOR QUALITY AUDIO.
Musa Abd al-Karim (born in 1907, from Bethlehem) is interviewed by Sahdi Saber - 26 May 1995.
Musa Abd al-Karim (born in 1907, from Bethlehem) is interviewed by Sahdi Saber - 26 May 1995.
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.
Original audio recording: cassette tape.
Transcript: summary.
In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 19 of Box 19.
Transcript: summary.
In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 19 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.
