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ROMA
TRANSLATION PROJECT 2000
A list of recommended titles
Titles recommended for translation without changes
1. No author: Mujeres Gitanas ante el
Futuro [Gypsy Women in the Face of the Future] - in Spanish
On Roma women
Editorial Presencia Gitana, Madrid, 1990
2. Achim, V. Tzigani in istoria Romaniei
[The Gypsies in the History of Romania] – in Romanian
Achim’s book is a general history of Roma in today’s Romania based
on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources. Previously unknown
facts and new interpretations are presented.
Editura Enciclopedica, Bucurest, 1998
202 pp., ISBN: 9734502301
3. Bartosz, A.: Nie bój sie cygana [Don’t
be Afraid of a Gypsy] – in Polish
The book follows the settlment of Roma in Eastern Europe, basic characteristics
of their culture, and discusses some common stereotipes and prejudices
towards them.
Asterias, Zglobice, 1994
206 pp., ISBN: 8390130319
4. Crowe, David: A History of the Gypsies
of Eastern Europe and Russia
A useful companion volume to Fraser’s “The Gypsies”. Its weakness is
that it (like Fraser) is based entirely on secondary sources, and presents
nothing from a Roma perspective
St. Martins Press, New York, 1994
328 pp., ISBN: 1850439117
5. Davidová, Eva: Romano Drom 1945-1990
- in Czech
A monograph on the social situation of the Roma in Czechoslovakia after
World War II.
Univerzita Palackeho, Olomouc 1995
244 pp., ISBN: 8070675338
6. Demeter, R.S. and P.S. Demeter: Obraztsy
folklora tsygan-kelderarei [Samples of the Folklore of the Kalderash Roma]
- in Romani and in Russian
A volume of folklore collected and commented on by two Roma scholars.
Nauka, Moscow 1981
264 pp.
7. Duric, R., Becken, J., Bengsch, A.
B.: Ohne Heim - ohne Grab: Die Geschichte der Roma und Sinti [Without
a Home, without a Tomb. History of the Roma and Sinti] – in German
The story of Roma on their way from India to Europe, the presecution
of Holocaust and contemporary Roma in several European countries.
Aufbau – Verlag, Berlin, 1996
359 pp., ISBN: 3351024185
8. Ficowski, J. Cyganie na polskich drogach
[Gypsies on the Polish Roads] – in Polish
Already a “classic” and very detailed survey on Roma in Poland – from
their settlement in Eastern Europe to the present day. A shorter version
of the book is published in English under the title “The Gypsies in Poland
: history and customs”.
Wydawnictwo Literackie, Krakòw-Wroclaw, 1986 (2nd ed.)
428 pp., ISBN: 8308011500
9. Fings, Karola, Herbert Heuss and Frank
Sparing: From a “Race Science” to the Camps
The volume attempts to explain how Roma children came to be sent to
the death camps by describing how policies of Roma persecution from 1875
onwards led to the establishment of the Race Hygiene research Centre in
1936. Subsequent chapters describe the clearing of the cities of Roma
and the eventual development of the death camps.
University of Hertforshire Press, Hertforshire, 1997
136 pp., ISBN 090045878X
10. Fraser, Angus: The Gypsies
A thorough overview of Roma history in Europe, already translated into
several languages. Its weakness is that it contains nothing on the Roma
population in North and South America, perhaps one quarter of the entire
world population (not only are all Roma in the Americas from Europe, but
now in post-Communist times the number of Roma going to live there is
growing rapidly and has direct relevance to the European situation.)
Blackwell, Oxford, 1992, 2nd edition
256 pages, ISBN: 0631159673
11. Gómez Alfaro, Antonio: La gran redada
de gitanos : España, la prisión general de gitanos en 1749 [The Great
Cast of the Gypsies: Spain, a great prison for Gypsies in 1749] - in Spanish
The story of the mass internment without trial of Roma in Spain in
1749.
Editorial Presencia Gitana, Madrid, 1993
123 pages, ISBN: 8487347096
12. Gropper, Rena C.: Gypsies in the City:
Culture Patterns and Survival
On American Roma.
Darwin Press, Princeton, N.J., 1975
235 pages, ISBN: 0878500081
13. Hancock, Ian: The Pariah Syndrome:
An Account of Gypsy Slavery and Persecution
The only book on the history of the Roma slavery in Romania. A full-text
up-dated version is available on the “Patrin” web-site on Romani culture
at http://www.geocities.com/Paris/5121/pariah-contents.htm
Karoma Publishers, Arbor, Ann 1987
14. Horvathova, E.: Cigani na Slovensku
[Gypsies in Slovakia] – in Slovak
The only general and comprehensive survey on Roma in Slovakia – from
the days of their settlement to the present.
SAV, Bratislava, 1964
400 pp., ISBN: 7106664.
15. Hübschmannová, Milena: Saj pes dovakeras.
Muzeme se domulvit [“Saj pes dovakeras “. We Can Speak with Each Other]
– in Czech
An ethnocultural and sociolonguistical survey on Roma from former Czechoslovakia.
Univerzita Palackeho, Olomouc, 1993
120 pp., ISBN: 8070673559
16. Kamiński, Ignacy-Marek: The State
of Ambiguity – Studies of Gypsy Refugees
University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, 1980
395 pp., ISBN: 9186060007
17. Kenrick, Donald: Gypsies: from India
to the Mediterranean
A short account on the origin of the Roma and the story of their migration
over many centuries from India to Europe, Illustrated with engravings
and copies of old maps and manuscripts. Additional chapters have been
prepared for a new English edition and have been used in the Romani edition.
Published in France by CRDP 1993, distributed by University of Hertforshire
Press
63 pages, ISBN 2865650820
18. Kenrick, Donald and Grattan Puxon:
Gypsies under the Swastica
Written in an accessible way, this is the most comprehensive recent
single volume account of the fate of the Roma in the Holocaust. Translation
should be done from a revised English version (available on disc) or from
the French edition as they are more up to date.
University of Hertforshire Press, Hertforshire, 1995
157 pp., ISBN 0900458658
19. Kenrick, Donald and Colin Clark:
Moving On. The Gypsies and Travellers of Britain
This attractively illustrated pocket book guide by Donald Kenrick and
Colin Clark is the only general introduction to the struggle of Roma to
survive as a people in Britain today. A profile of the Roma community,
their origin, work and way of life. Including refugees from Eastern Europe,
the Kali of Wales, Nawkens of Scotland and the Romanichal Roma of England
with a chapter on New Travellers. More information available at: http://www.herts.ac.uk/UHPress/Gypsies.html
University of Hertforshire Press 1999
204 pp., ISBN 0900458 992
20. Kenrick, Donal, Gillian Taylor (contributor):
Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies)
Scarecrow 1998 (new edition expected soon)
320 pages, ISBN: 0810834448
21. Kertesi, Gábor and Gábor Kezdi: A
cigány népesség Magyarországon: dokumentáció és adattar [Gypsy Population
of Hungary. A collection of documents and data] – in Hungarian
The most comprehensive statistical survey of any Romany population
in Central and Eastern Europe. Though criticized methodologically for
the criterion of ethnic ascription, this provides a powerful model for
others to build on.
Socio-typo, Budapest 1998
467 pp., ISBN: 9630363526
22. Koenig, Ulrich: Sinti und Roma unter
dem Nationalsozialismus [Sinti and Roma under National Socialism] – in
German
Studien Verlag D.N. Brockmeyer, Bochum, 1989
210 pp.
23. Kohn, Marek: The Race Gallery
Important exposure of the continuing influence of "scientific racism"
taking the Roma people as a key example.
Cape, 1995
95 pp., ISBN: 022403958X
24. Lacková, Ilona (ed. by Milena Hübschmannová):
A False Dawn: My life as a Gypsy woman in Slovakia
A vivid picture of life in a prewar Roma settlement on the edge of
a Slovak village, the horrors of the war, and the exhilaration of the
communist period. The author was the first Roma to attend Charles University
in Prague and became a party official but she also witnessed the destruction
of the Roma culture, language and way of life in this flase dawn. Transcribed
and edited from recordings in Roma. More information at: http://www.herts.ac.uk/UHPress/interface.html
University of Herfordshire Press 1999
224 pp., ISBN 190280600X
25. Lemon, Alaina: Between Two Fires:
Gypsy Performance and Romani from Pushkin to Post-Socialism
The books explores how Roma and Russians anchor both stage performance
and everyday interaction to broader post-Soviet notions of race and debates
about the past.
Duke University Press, 1999
272pp., ISBN: 0822324938
26. Marushiakova, Elena and Vesselin Popov:
Gypsies/Roma in the Balkans, vol.1: Gypsies in the Ottoman Empire
Based on original archival research, this book uncovers for the first
time the details of the life of the Roma under the Ottoman empire: the
taxes, religion, service in the army, occupations, settlements, etc. Volume
two will describe the emancipation of the Roma in the 19th
and 20th centuries and unravel the complex situation of the
Roma during the disintegration of Yugoslavia.
University of Herfordshire Press, forthcoming (June 2000)
100 pp., ISBN: 1902806026
27. Marushiakova, Elena and Veseelin Popov:
Gypsies (Roma) in Bulgaria
A book based on many years of ethnographic fieldwork and historical
research. The social organisation, way of life and culture of the Gypsies
are explored within the general context of Balkan history.
Peter Lang Publishing, 1997
216 pp., ISBN: 3631307594
28. Matras, Yaron, Peter Bakker and Hristo
Kyuchukov (eds): The Typology and Dialectology of Romani
J. Benjamin, Amsterdam; Philadelphia 1997
222 pp., ISBN: 9027236615
29. Nunes, Olímpio: O Povo Cigano [On
Gypsy People] - in Portuguese
One of the best general studies of Roma history, culture and experience.
Obra Nacional da Pastoral dos Ciganos, Lisbon, 1981
462 pp.
30. Pasqualino, Caterina: Dire Le Chant:
Les Gitans flamencos d’Andalousie [Tell the Song. The Gypsy Flamenco in
Andalusia] – in French
A study of Gitano music and song.
CNRS Editions de la Maison de Science de L’Homme, Paris 1998
ISBN: 2271055644
31. Piasere, Leonardo: Mondo di mondi:
antropologia delle culture rom [World of the Worlds: anthropology of the
Roma culture] - in Italian
L’ancora, Rome, 1999
233 pp.
32. Rom-Lebedev, Ivan: Ot tsyganskogo
khora k teatru “Romen” [From a Gypsy Choir to the “Romen” Theatre] - in
Russian
Autobiography of a Roma actor and writer. Documents the establishment
of the Moscow Roma Theater in 1931, World War II and other historical
moments through the eyes of one Rom.
Iskusstvo, Moscow 1990
265 pp., ISBN: 5210003590
33. Rosenberg, Otto: Das Brennglas [The
Lens] – in German
By a Sinto who tells his own story to Ulrich Enzensberger who transcribed
it. Bestselling account of one man’s journey through the Nazi concentration
camps – the lens (Brennglas) in question refers to the accident that led
him to the camps.
Eichborn, Berlin 1998
142 pp., ISBN: 3821806494
34. Sanchez, Ortega and Maria Helena:
La Inquizicion y los Gitanos [The Inquisition and the Gypsies] - in Spanish
The first book to document the treatment of Roma (Gitanos) in the Spanish
Inquisition. It has generally been assumed that no Roma were transported
out of Spain during this period.
Libreria Taurus, Madrid, 1985
451 pp.
35. Sebková, Hana, Edita Zlnayová, Milena
Hübschmannová: Fragments tsiganes: comme en haut, ainsi en bas [Gypsy
Fragments: as it is in the heights, so it is at the bottom] - in French
A collections of interviews translated from Romani into French.
Lierre & Coudrier, Paris 1991
160 pages, ISBN: 2907975323
36. Stewart, Michael, John Comaroff (editor)
and Pierre Bourdieu (editor): The Time of the Gypsies
Until 1989 it was official Communist policy in eastern Europe to absorb
Roma into the "ruling" working class. But many Roma fought to maintain
their separate identity. This book is about the refusal of one group of
Roma to abandon their way of life and accept assimilation into the majority
population. It is a story about the sources of cultural diversity in modern
industrial society and about the fear and hatred that such social and
cultural difference many give rise to.
A part of the “Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination” series.
Westview Press, Boulder Colorado 1997
320 pp., ISBN: 0813331986
37. Szapu, Magda: Halotti szokások és
hiedelmek a kaposszentjakabi oláh cigányoknál [Death Rituals and Prejudices
of the Kaposszentjakab Olah Gypsies] - in Hungarian
A short study of death rituals in a Hungarian Roma community.
MTA Néprajzi Kutató Csoport, Budapest 1984
71 pp., ISBN: 9637761845
38. Szuhay, Péter: A cigányok, a legnagyobb
magyar kissebség [Gypsies, the Largest Hungarian Minority] - in Hungarian
A monograph on the Hungarian Roma.
1996
39. Thurner, Erika: Nationalsozialismus
und Zigeuner in Oesterreich [National Socialism and Gypsies in Austria]
– in German
Geyer Edition, Wien, 1983 (American edition by University of Alabama Press,
1998)
235 pp.
40. Tong, Diane (ed.): Gypsies. An interdisciplinary
reader
A collection of seminal essays on Roma in the last few decades. Sections
on politics, social change, history, language, performing arts, social
organisation and images of “Gypsies”.
Garland, New York – London, 1998
376 pp., ISBN: 0815325495
41. Vukanovic, T.: Romi (Tsigani) Jugoslavii
[Roma (Gypsies) of Yugoslavia] – in Serbian
The settlement and the history of Roma on the territory of former Yugoslavia,
including detailed descriptions of various Roma communities.
Vranie: Nova Yugoslavia, 1983.
456 pp.
42. Williams, Patrick: Mariage tsigane:
une ceremonie de fiançailles chez les Rom de Paris [Gypsy Weddings: a
nuptial ceremony among the Roma of Paris]
A study of Parisian Kalderash community and society
Harmattan, Paris, 1984
480 pp, ISBN: 2852971607
43. Williams, Patrick: Nous, on n'en parle
pas: les vivants et les morts chez les Manouches [We don’t speak of it:
the living and the dead among the Manouche] – in French
About death among Manouche (a Sinti-related group in France), very
successful in France
Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris, 1993
104 pp., ISBN: 2735105407
44. Yoors, Jan: The Gypsies
On the 1930s Belgian Lovari
Simon & Shuster, New York, 1983 (2nd edition)
256 pp., ISBN: 0881333050
45. Yoors, Jan: Crossings
The Lovari during the Second World War
Simon & Shuster, New York, 1988 (2nd edition)
224 pp.
46. Zimmermann, Michael: Rassenutopie
und Genozid: die nationalsozialistische “Lösung der Zigeunerfrage” [Racial
Utopia and Genocide. The National Socialist “Solution of the Gypsy Question”]
- in German
A classic study of Roma Holocaust
Christians, Hamburg, 1996
574 pp., ISBN: 3767212706
Titles that can form a basis for compilations,
readers, etc.
47. Acton, Thomas, ed.: Gypsy Politics
and Traveller Identity
The book represents cutting edge of scholarship on how the state deals
with Roma and Travellers, and how they deal with the state. This comparative
study of Gypsy politics in Britain and abroad not only includes work from
established Romani Studies scholars such as Nicolae Gheorghe and Donald
Kenrick but also from younger researchers.
University of Hertfordshire Press 1997
176 pp., ISBN 0900458984
48. Acton, Thomas and Gary Mundy, eds.:
Romani Culture and Gypsy Identity
This book provides comparative scholarly accounts of Gypsy culture,
art and music together with contemporary accounts of changes in education
and health. It is illustrated by painted traditional caravans, songs and
extracts from musical scores. More information: http://www.herts.ac.uk/UHPress/Gypsies.html
University of Hardforshire Press, 1997
203 pp., ISBN 0900458763
49. Danbakli, Marielle (ed.).: On Gypsies:
Texts Issued by International Institutions
Key European (EU, the Council of Europe), OSCE and UN documents for
reference.
Published in France by CRDP in 1994 and distributed in Britain by
University of Hertfordshire Press
209 pp., ISBN 2865650995
50. Sutherland, A.: Gypsies – The Hidden
Americans
Wavelend, 1986
ISBN: 0881332356
51. Tebbutt, Susan (ed.): Sinti and Roma
in German-Speaking Society and Literature
A collection about Romani art, life and issues in Germany
Berghahn Books, 1998
160 pp., ISBN: 157181922
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