Yusef Abu Haja, aged 112 from al-Khader discussing the Ottoman period and World War I

Yusef Abu Haja (112 years old from al-Khader) interviewed by Nisreen al-Qutb on 12 April 1995. <br><br>He discusses the following: people were not prepared for World War I; people used to live off whatever they harvested, especially wheat; his conscription into the Ottoman army and how he ran away; locust plague - how people had to collect the eggs and anyone refusing to do this would be sent to prison; Jewish settlers came to Palestine, especially in Jerusalem; the situation when the British arrived and the uprisings against them; the drought year of 1916. <br><br>Original audio recording: cassette tape. <br>Transcript: word for word. <br>In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 15 of Box 8. <br>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. <br>

优素福·阿布·哈贾（Yusef Abu Haja，来自al-Khader，时年112岁）于1995年4月12日接受妮斯琳·库特布（Nisreen al-Qutb）采访。<br><br>他在采访中谈及以下内容：当时民众并未为第一次世界大战做好筹备；民众此前依靠自产作物维生，尤以小麦为主要食粮；他曾被征召加入奥斯曼军队并成功逃亡；当地曾爆发蝗灾，民众被迫收集虫卵，拒绝执行者将被处以监禁；犹太定居者迁入巴勒斯坦，尤以耶路撒冷地区为甚；英军抵达巴勒斯坦后的局势，以及当地民众的反英起义；1916年的旱灾灾情。<br><br>原始音频录音载体：盒式磁带。<br>转录文本：逐字转录。<br>该盒式磁带最初由伯利恒大学（Bethlehem University）归档，归类为第8箱第15号档案文件。<br>此文件集隶属于行星伯利恒档案馆（Planet Bethlehem Archive）下属的伯利恒大学口述历史项目，作为奥斯曼帝国与第一次世界大战馆藏的组成部分留存。