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ROMA TRANSLATION PROJECT 1. No author: Mujeres Gitanas ante el Futuro (in Spanish) On Roma women Editorial Presencia Gitana, 1990 Editorial Presencia Gitana, Valderrodrigo 76 y 78, bajos A., 28039 Madrid, Spain 2. Acton, Thomas: Surviving Peoples: Gypsies Out of print but available from the author c/o Romanestan Publications, 22 Northend, Warley, Brentwood, Essex, England Macdonald Educational, London, 1981 48 pages 3. Crowe, David: A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia A useful companion volume to Fraser. Its weakness is that it (like Fraser) is based entirely on secondary sources, and presents nothing from a Roma perspective New York, St. Martins Press, 1994 Address 175 Fifth Aveue, New York, NY 10010 328 pages ISBN: 1850439117 4. 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 pages ISBN: 8070675338 5. Demeter, R.S. and P.S. Demeter Obraztsy folklora tsygan-kelderarei (in Romani and in Russian) A volume of folklore collected and commented on by two Roma scholars Nauka, Moscow 1981 264 pages 6. Fings, Karola, Herbert Heuss and Frank Sparing: From a “Race Science” to the Camps The volume attempts to explain how Gypsy children came to be sent to the death camps by describing policies of Gypsy 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 Gypsies and the eventual development of the death camps. University of Hertforshire Press 1997 136 pages ISBN 090045878X 7. 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 175 Fifth Aveue, New York, NY 10010 256 pages ISBN: 0631159673 8. Gómez Alfaro, Antonio: La gran redada de gitanos : Espańa, la prisión general de gitanos en 1749 (in Spanish) The story of the mass internment without trial of Gypsies in Spain in 1749. Editorial Presencia Gitana, Madrid, 1993 123 pages ISBN: 8487347096 9. Grönfors, Martti: Bloodfeuding among Finnish Gypsies Helsinki, 1977 10. Gropper, Rena C.: Gypsies in the City: Culture Patterns and Survival On American Roma. Darwin Press, Princeton, N.J., 1975 235 pages ISBN: 0878500081 11. Hancock, Ian: The Pariah Syndrome: An Account of Gypsy Slavery and Persecution The only book on the history of the Roma slavery in Romania. Karoma Publishers; Arbor, Ann 1987 This is out of print but one copy can be found in the ERRC library in Budapest 12. Hancock, Ian, Siobhan Dowd and Rajko Djuric (eds):The Roads of the Roma A collection of Romani poetry by poets and writers from twenty countries, includes forty-three poems and prose extracts arranged alongside an 800-year chronology of repression. 160 pages University of Hertfordshire Press, 1998 ISBN 0900458909 13. Kamiński, Ignacy-Marek: The State of Ambiguity – Studies of Gypsy Refugees University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, 1980 395 pages ISBN: 9186060007 14. Kenrick, Donald: Gypsies: from India to the Mediterranean A short account on the origin of the Gypsies 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 15. Kenrick, Donald and Grattan Puxon: Gypsies under the Swastica Written in an accessible way, this is the most comprehensive up to date single volume account of the fate of the Gypsies 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 1995 157 pages ISBN 0900458658 16. Kenrick, Donald and Grattan Puxon: In the shadow of the Swastica: the Gypsies during the Second World War This volume covers the persecution of the Roma and Sinti in some of the countries occupied by Germany or ruled by its fascist allies including France, Italy, Austria and the present Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Romania, the Soviet Union and the Baltic States. University of Hertforshire Press 1999 220 pages ISBN 0900458852 17. Kenrick, Donald: Historical Dictionary of the Romanies (Gypsies) Scarecrow 1998 (new edition expected soon) 320 pages ISBN: 0810834448 18. Kertesi, Gábor and Gábor Kezdi: A cigány nepesség Magyarországon: dokumentáció és adattar A monograph on the Hungarian Roma living in one district. Socio-typo, Budapest 1998 467 pages ISBN: 9630363526 19. Koenig, Ulrich: Sinti und Roma unter dem Nationalsozialismus (in German) The Porrajmos (Roma Holocaust) was the other most important event (besides slavery) in Roma history in Europe. Studien Verlag D.N. Brockmeyer, Bochum, 1989 Querenburger Hoehe 281, 4630 Bochum 1, Germany 210 pages 20. 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 pages ISBN: 022403958X 21. Lackova, Ilona (ed. by Milena Hübschmannová): A False Dawn: My life as a Gypsy woman in Slovakia A vivid picture of life in a prewar Gypsy 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 Gypsy to attend Charles University 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. University of Herfordshire Press 1999 22. 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, forthcoming spring 2000 272 pages ISBN: 0822324938 23. Marushiakova, Elena and Vesselin Popov: Gypsies/Roma in the Balkans Volume 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 Gypsies 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 (October 1999) 100 pages ISBN: 1902806026 24. Matras, Yaron, Peter Bakker and Hristo Kyuchukov (eds): The typology and dialectology of Romani Romani linguistics J. Benjamin, Amsterdam; Philadelphia 1997 222 pages ISBN: 9027236615 25. Maximoff, Mateo: Le Prix de la Liberte (in French) A novel about the period of slavery by the Roma descendant of slaves. This 550-year period has profoundly affected the situation of Vlah Roma today. Slavery amounted to about two thirds of the Vlah Roma entire population in Europe. Romaineville, 1981 61, Boulevard Edouarde Branly, 93230 Romaineville, France. 26. Nagy-Idai Sztojka, Ferencz : Magyar es Czigany Nyelv Gyok-Szotara Romane alava Iskolai es Utazasi Hasznalatra (in Hungarian) One of the best Romani dictionaries Kalousa, 1886 206 pages 27. Nečas, Ctibor: Ma Bisteren – nezapomeňme (in Czech) A history of Roma lager in Hodonin near Kunstat 1942-43. Muzeum Romské Kultury v Brne, Praha, 1997 68 pages 28. Nunes, Olimpio: O Povo Cigano (in Portuguese) One of the best general studies of Roma history, culture and experience. Obra Nacional da Pastoral dos Ciganos, c/o Grafilarte, Agueda, Lisbon, Portugal 462 pages 29. Okely, Judith: The traveller-gypsies A controversial (the author argues against the Indian origin of the described Gypsy community) ethnographic work on the English Travellers. Full of telling material about Gypsy life, successful in teaching in sociology, geography and anthropology courses. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge; New York 1983 254 pages ISBN: 0521288703 30. Pasqualino, Caterina: Dire Le Chant: Les Gitans flamencos d’Andalousie (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: Mare Roma (in French) A study of Xoraxane Roms in Italy 32. Rom-Lebedev, Ivan: Ot tsyganskogo khora k teatru “Romen” (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 pages ISBN: 5210003590 33. Rosenberg, Otto: Das Brennglas (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 camps – the lens (Brennglas) in question refers to the accident that led him to the camps. Eichborn, Berlin 1998 142 pages ISBN: 3821806494 34. Sanchez Ortega, Maria Helena: La Inquizicion y los Gitanos (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 pages 35. Sebková, Hana, Edita Zlnayová, Milena Hübschmannová: Fragments tsiganes: comme en haut, ainsi en bas (in French) A collections of interviews translated from Romani into French. Lierre & Coudrier, Paris 1991 160 pages ISBN: 2907975323 36. Stewart, Michael: Time of the Gypsies On the Hungarian Roma under socialism. Westview Press, Boulder Colorado 1997 ISBN: 0813331986 37. Szapu, Magda: Halotti szokások és hiedelmek a kaposszentjakabi oláh cigányoknál (in Hungarian) A short study of death rituals in a Hungarian Roma community. MTA Néprajzi Kutató Csoport, Budapest 1984 71 pages ISBN: 9637761845 38. Szuhay, Péter: A cigányok, a legnagyobb magyar kissebség (in Hungarian) A monograph of the Hungarian Roma. 1996 39. Tong, Diane (ed.): Gypsies. An interdisciplinary reader A collection of the most seminal essays on Roma in the last few decades. Sections of politics, social change, history, language, performing arts, social organisation and images of “Gypsies”. Garland, New York – London, 1998 376 pages ISBN: 0815325495 40. Van de Port, Mattjis: Gypsies. Wars and Other Instances of the Wild Ethnographic work on the Serbs and Roma music during the wars of ex-Yugoslavia. Amsterdam UP 1998 350 pages ISBN: 9053563113 41. Williams, Patrick: Mariage tsigane : une ceremonie de fiançailles chez les Rom de Paris (in French) A study of Parisian Kalderas community and society Harmattan, Paris, 1984 480 pages ISBN: 2852971607 42. Williams, Patrick: Nous, on n'en parle pas : les vivants et les morts chez les Manouches (in French) About death among Manouche (Sinti related Roma in France), very successful in France Editions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme, Paris, 1993 104 pages ISBN: 2735105407 43. Yoors, Jan: The Gypsies 1930s Belgian Lovari Waveland 1987, 2nd edition 44. Yoors, Jan: Crossings Lovari Gypsies WWII Waveland 1971/88 45. Zimmermann, Michael: Rassenutopie und Genozid: die nationalsozialistische “Lösung der Zigeunerfrage” (in German) Classical study of Roma Holocaust Christians, Hamburg, 1996 574 pages ISBN: 3767212706 Titles that can form a basis for compilations, readers, etc. 1. Acton, Thomas (ed.): Gypsy Politics and Traveller Identity McVeigh and Suinear on sedentarism, Gheorghe on identity, & much more. University of Hertfordshire Press 1997 176 pages ISBN 0900458984 2. Acton, Thomas and Gary Mundy (eds.): Romani Culture and Gypsy Identity Comparative accounts of Roma culture, art and music together with contemporary accounts of changes in education and health. Illustrated by painted traditional caravans, songs and music scores. University of Hertfordshire Press 1997 203 pages ISBN 09000458763 3. 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 pages ISBN 2865650995 4. Sutherland, A.: A: Gypsies – The Hidden Americans Wavelend, 1986 ISBN: 0881332356 5. Tebbutt, S.: Sinti and Roma in German-Speaking Society and Literature A collection about Romani art, life and issues in Germany Berghahn Books, 1998 160 pages ISBN: 157181922 |