Interview with Meli Ḥannā Isḥāq مقابلة مع ملي حّنا إسحاق

American University of Beirut Palestinian Oral History Archives
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00:00:08 - Social life in Jerusalem under British mandate

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Private Institutions: Madrasat Rahbāt Ṣahyūn (School); Schmidt's Girls College (School); Jerusalem Girls' College (School).

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Keywords: Anti-Palestinian measures; British Army; Christian holidays; Christians; Egypt; Germans; Haifa (Palestine); Interreligious relations; Jews; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Prisons; Private schools; Revolutionaries; Strikes; Wedding celebration; Women education; Work; Zionists

00:12:37 - Religious pluralism and social life in Jerusalem

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks-Places of Worship: Holy Saviour (Church); Sœurs de Marie Réparatrice (Church); Kanīsat al-Qiyāmah (Church).

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Keywords: Christians; Culture; Dayr Yāsīn Massacre, 1948; Entertainment; Home evacuation; Hostility; Interreligious marriage; Latin churches; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Pilgrims; Religious traditions; Social norms; al-Lajnah al-ʻArabīyah al-ʻUlyā; al-Ḥusaynī, Amīn, 1895-1975; Ḥusaynī, ʻAbd al-Qādir Mūsá, 1908-1948

00:22:39 - Socio-political dynamics in Jerusalem during Mandatory Palestine

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks- Public Institutions: Saint Francis (Club); Saint Anthony (Club); Golf Club (Club); Orthodox Club (Club); Young Men Christian Association (Library).

Landmarks-Places of Worship: Haykal Sulaymān (Temple).

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Keywords: Arab Salvation Army; Balfour Declaration, 1917; British colonization; British-Jewish relations; Cholera; Christians; Conspiracy; Egyptian Army; European Jewish immigration; Expulsion from Palestine; Hebron (Palestine); Hebron massacre, 1929; House raid; Interreligious marriage; Iraqi Army; Jewish Holocaust; Jewish gangs; Jewish settlements; Jews; Jordanian Army; King David Massacre, 1946; Land sale; Ottoman Rule of Palestine, 1876-1918; Palestine Railways; Palestinian-Jewish relations; Revolutionaries; Routes; Semiramis Hotel bombing, 1948; Shamir, Itzhak, 1915-2012; Social norms; The Jerusalem Post (Newspaper); World War, 1914-1918; Zionist Invasion of Palestine, 1948

00:41:28 - Conduct of life in pre-Nakba Jerusalem and the expulsion

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Partial Transcript: Landmarks-Places of Worship: al-Mahd (Church); al-Qiyāmah (Church).

Landmarks- Private Institutions: Christian Missionary Society (Hospital); Nun Pollad (Hospital); Bayt Laḥm (Hospital); Augusta Victoria (Hospital).

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Keywords: Arab countries; Bethlehem (Palestine); Building practices; Childbirth; Childhood memories; Christmas; Displacement; Exile; Expulsion from Palestine; Interreligious relations; Jerusalem (Palestine); Means of transportation; Nation; Nostalgia; Palestinian diaspora; Photographs; Pre-Nakba life; Refugee experience; Right of return; Sharon, Ariel, 1928-2014; ʻĪd celebrations