Jabra Ghabar, from Beit Jala discussing the 1920 great snow and the 1927 earthquake

POOR QUALITY AUDIO.<br>Jabra Ghabar (from Beit Jala) is interviewed by Victoria Abkrian - 1995.<br>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.<br><br>Original audio recording: cassette tape.Transcript: word for word.<br><br>In the original collection at Bethlehem University this cassette tape was categorised as File 18 of Box 19.<br>This fileset exists as part of the 1920 Great Snow &amp; 1927 Earthquake collection within the Bethlehem University Oral History project of the Planet Bethlehem Archive.