Yehuda Amon and Haim Nahmias were middle-class Jerusalem Jews who
were conscripted into the Ottoman army and transported to Western
Anatolia with the labor battalions during World War I. They kept
detailed notes of their dreadful experiences which they later
extended into complete narratives. Both diaries were discovered
only recently and both appear here for the first time in this
English translation. In addition to the translation of the diaries,
the book includes a detailed introduction which describes life in
the Jewish settlement in Palestine during the war under the
autocratic rule of Jemal Pasha, the Governor of Syria and
Palestine. It provides insight into the Ottoman army in the Middle
East and the declining years of the Ottoman Empire, as seen through
the two diaries and also through unpublished letters of Yehuda
Burla, another Palestinian Jewish conscript who later became a
well-known Hebrew author. The book also contains a detailed
description of the Yishuv during the early years of the war,
including the devastating locust plague of 1915.
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