Rural indebtedness and agricultural credit supplies in Palestine in the 1930s

Abstract

When the debts reach a certain figure, the fellah takes his bundle of bedclothes, along with his cooking pan and watercan, and if he is very fortunate, his small water jug and his shoes, and having loaded the whole onto his one ass, if he has managed to retain an ass, and onto his wife, he flees on a dark night and crosses the Jordan Valley, until he reaches the Hauran or Ajlun, where he finds a tolerably secure refuge from his pursuers and oppressors.'