Roma Voices in History : : A Sourcebook / / Elena Marushiakova and Vesselin Popov.

• VerfasserIn: Marushiakova, Elena,; Popov, Veselin,
• TeilnehmendeR: Popov, Veselin,
• Place / Publishing House: Paderborn, Germany : : Ferdinand Schöningh,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: First edition.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1104 p.); 6 b&w tables

This ground-breaking book is an impressively extensive collection of primary historical sources in various languages that reflect the history of the Roma (formerly referred to as 'Gypsies' in local languages). The selection of the included materials reflects the authentic voice of the Roma them - selves, and presents their visions and the specific goals pursued by the Roma civic emancipation movement. The source materials are published in original and translated in English, and are accompanied by explanatory notes and summarising comments discussing the specific historical realities and their interrelation to the Romani emancipatory movement in Central and Eastern Europe, thus presenting a comprehensive picture of the historical processes.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Content -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Genesis of the Roma Emancipation -- 1.1 The Austro-Hungarian Empire -- 1.1.1 The Gypsy Voivodina -- 1.1.1.1 János Kaldarás and Mihaly Szava -- 1.1.1.2 The two Gypsy Chieftains -- Comments -- 1.1.2 The Gypsy Congress in Kisfalu -- 1.1.2.1 The Gypsy Congress -- 1.1.2.2 The Gypsy Day -- 1.1.2.3 The Times Newspaper -- Comments -- 1.1.3 The Letter of Raphael to Emperor Francis-Joseph -- Comments -- 1.1.4 An Association of Gypsies -- Comments -- 1.2 The Ottoman Empire -- 1.2.1 A Letter to the Editor of the Macedonia Newspaper -- Comments -- 1.2.2 The Guild Holy Days -- Comments -- 1.2.3 The Petition from Xanthi -- Comments -- 1.3 The Russian Empire -- 1.3.1 The Sorochyntsi Uprising -- Comments -- Summarising Comments -- Chapter 2. Bulgaria -- 2.1 The Struggle for Suffrage -- 2.1.1 The Congress of the Gypsies in Bulgaria -- 2.1.2 The Gypsy Congress -- 2.1.3 The Gypsy Congress in Sofia -- 2.1.4 The Gypsy Congress - The First Meeting -- 2.1.5 The Gypsy Congress - The Second Meeting -- 2.1.6 A Telegram from the Gypsies to the Royal Prince -- 2.1.7 The Gypsy Movement -- 2.1.8 Dr. Marko Markov in Plovdiv -- 2.1.9 The Gypsy Meeting in Varna -- 2.1.10 A Gypsy Protest -- Comments -- 2.2 Local Organisations -- 2.2.1 The Statute of the Egyptian Nationality in the Town of Vidin -- Comments -- 2.3 National Organisations -- 2.3.1 The Statute of the Organisation 'Istikbal - Future' -- 2.3.2 The Minutes of the General Constitutive Meeting of the Mohammedan-Gypsy Union -- 2.3.3 The Statute of the Mohammedan-Gypsy Union -- 2.3.4 The Application from the Mohammedan-Gypsy Union (April) -- 2.3.5 The Application from the Mohammedan-Gypsy Union (June) -- 2.3.6 Opinion -- 2.3.7 Acknowledgement -- 2.3.8 A Letter to Police Directorate -- 2.3.9 The Statute of the Organisation 'Ekipe'.

2.3.10 The Memoirs of Shakir Pashov (Part 1) -- Comments -- 2.4 Evangelical Churches -- 2.4.1 The Gypsy Evangelical Baptist Church -- 2.4.2 The Gospel for All -- 2.4.3 The Stolen Gospel -- 2.4.4 News -- Comments -- 2.5 Socio-Political Struggles -- 2.5.1 The Memoirs of Shakir Pashov (Part 2) -- 2.5.2 The Autobiography by Shakir Pashov -- 2.5.3 The Memory of Vasil Chakmakov -- Comments -- Summarising Comments -- Chapter 3. Yugoslavia -- 3.1 Organisations -- 3.1.1 The First Serbian Gypsy Zadruga for Mutual Aid in Sickness and Death -- 3.1.1.1 The Gypsy Movement -- 3.1.1.2 The Membership Card -- 3.1.1.3 Celebration on Saint Bibija -- 3.1.1.4 The Belgrade Gypsies Are Building a House of Culture and Civilisation -- Comments -- 3.1.2 The Club of the Belgrade Serbian Gypsies -- 3.1.2.1 The Day of Aunt Bibija -- 3.1.2.2 A Telegram to King Peter II -- Comments -- 3.1.3 The Association of the Belgrade Gypsies Worshippers of Bibija (Tetkica) -- 3.1.3.1 The Statute of Association of Belgrade Gypsies Worshippers of Bibija (Tetkica) -- 3.1.3.2 The Belgrade Gypsies Held Their Assembly -- Comments -- 3.1.4 An Educational Club of the Yugoslav Gypsy Youth -- Comments -- 3.2 Civil rights and political participation -- 3.2.1 The Gypsies Want Their Representative in the Parliament -- 3.2.2 The Protest Rally of the Belgrade Gypsies -- 3.2.3 Political Party Participation -- 3.2.3.1 The Gypsy Party is Being Set up -- 3.2.3.2 The Gypsy Electoral List in Valjevo District -- 3.2.4 The Višegrad Gypsies Have Built a House of Education -- Comments -- 3.3 Visions and Activism -- 3.3.1 Our First Word -- 3.3.2 Romano Lil -- 3.3.3 Midday Pictures of Our First Gypsy Journalist -- Comments -- Chapter 4. Greece -- 4.1 The Rental Agreement -- Comments -- 4.2 The Struggle in the Village -- Comments -- 4.3 The Statute of the Panhellenic Cultural Association of the Greek Gypsies -- Comments.

Additional Comments -- Chapter 5. Turkey -- 5.1 Petitions -- 5.1.1 A Telegram from Gypsies from Drama -- 5.1.2 A Telegram from Gypsies from Kavala -- Comments -- 5.2 The Tobacco Workers -- 5.2.1 Emin Atılal -- 5.2.2 Zehra Kosova -- Comments -- 5.2.3 An Obituary for Zehra Kosova -- Comments -- 5.3 Media Testimonials -- 5.3.1 May Day -- Comments -- 5.3.2 The Trial of the Communists -- Comments -- 5.4 Training in the USSR -- 5.4.1 Remzi Salih Mustafa -- 5.4.2 The Opinion Report -- 5.4.3 The Autobiography -- 5.4.4 References -- 5.4.5 The Questionnaire -- Comments -- 5.4.6 Mustafa Mehmet (Alekber Ağaoğlu, Petko) -- 5.4.7 The Autobiography (1) -- 5.4.8 The Questionary Form -- 5.4.9 Autobiography (2) -- 5.4.10 Reference -- Comments -- 5.5 Kakava Day -- Comments -- Chapter 6. Romania -- 6.1 First Steps -- 6.1.1 A Manifesto of the Gypsies -- Comments -- 6.1.2 Gypsy Assemblies -- a) The Gypsy Assembly of Ucea de Jos -- b) The Gypsy Assembly in Moşna -- Comments -- 6.1.3 The Memorandum from Dumbraveni -- Comments -- 6.2 Professional Organisations -- 6.2.1 The Gypsy Musicians Progress -- 6.2.2 The Founding of the General Association of Gypsies in Romania -- Comments -- 6.3 National Organisations -- 6.3.1 G. A. Lăzurică on Popp Șerboianu's Book -- Comments -- 6.3.2 An Appeal to All Gypsies in Romania -- 6.3.3 A Call for a Meeting by the General Association of Gypsies in Romania -- 6.3.4 A Call for Participation at a Roma Congress in Bucharest, October 8, 1933 -- 6.3.5 The Congress of the Gypsies -- Comments -- 6.3.6 After the Congress of Roma -- Comments -- 6.3.7 The Statute and Regulations of the General Union of the Roma in Romania -- 6.3.8 The Artistic and Cultural Festival of the Roma -- 6.3.9 The Roma from Romania Have Met -- Comments -- 6.3.10 Roma Brothers! -- Comments -- 6.3.11 Our Programme -- Comments -- 6.3.12 An Appeal to the Roma from 1936.

6.3.13 What We Ask for -- Comments -- 6.4 Regional Organisations -- 6.4.1 The Police Report from Turnu Severin -- 6.4.2 The Police Report from Şimian Island -- 6.4.3 The Gypsy Life -- Comments -- 6.4.4 The House, the School and the Church -- Comments -- 6.4.5 The Neo-Rustic Brotherhood -- 6.4.6 To all the Gypsies in Transylvania -- Comments -- 6.4.7 Who Are We and What Do We Want? -- Comments -- 6.4.8 From Our Activity -- Comments -- 6.4.9 The Transylvanian Roma -- Comments -- 6.5 Naming -- 6.5.1 Is the Word 'Gypsy' a Word of Mockery, or the Name for a Nation -- 6.5.2 What Roma Should Know -- 6.5.3 Clarification -- Comments -- 6.6 The Sedentarisation of the Gypsy Nomads -- 6.6.1 The Colonisation of the Nomadic Gypsies -- Comments -- 6.6.2 The Nomads Who Create Their Independent State -- Comments -- 6.6.3 The Colonisation of Nomads -- Comments -- 6.7 Religion -- 6.7.1 God's Work among the Gypsies -- Comments -- 6.7.2 The Priests and Our Movement -- Comments -- 6.7.3 The Orthodox Church and the Roma -- Comments -- 6.8 The National Civic Identity -- 6.8.1 The Gypsies in Romania. Who Were They? Who Are They? What Do They Want to be? -- Comments -- 6.8.2 Faith, Country, King -- Comments -- 6.8.3 To Write in the Romani Language -- Comments -- 6.8.4 Romania for the Romanians -- Comments -- 6.8.5 What Should a Rom Do -- Comments -- 6.9 The Roma Women -- 6.9.1 To the Roma Women -- Comments -- 6.9.2 My Dearest Sisters -- Comments -- 6.9.3 The Women in the Roma Association -- Comments -- 6.10 Poems &amp -- Songs -- 6.10.1 To the Roma -- Comments -- 6.10.2 The March of the Roma -- Comments -- 6.10.3 Let's Sing Roma -- Comments -- Additional Comments -- Chapter 7. Hungary -- 7.1 The Hungarian Gypsy Musician's National Association -- 7.1.1 The Hungarian Gypsy Musician's National Association Modified Statute -- Comments.

7.1.2 The Meeting in Defense of Professional Rights -- Comments -- 7.1.3 The Extraordinary National Meeting with the Presence of Local Groups -- Comments -- 7.1.4 The Battle against Jazz and for Protection of Hungarian Gypsy Music -- Comments -- 7.2 The Restarting of the Gypsy Musicians' Society and the Journal -- 7.2.1 Károly Bura -- Comments -- 7.2.2 The Bihari Gypsy Music School -- Comments -- 7.2.3 The Dispute about the Repertoire of Gypsy Musicians -- Comments -- 7.3 The Hungarian Gypsy Musicians' National Federation -- 7.3.1 The Hungarian Gypsy Musicians' National Federation Statute -- Comments -- 7.3.2 The Five-hundred-year Jubilee -- Comments -- 7.3.3 The World Congress on Gypsyology -- Comments -- Additional Comments -- Chapter 8. Czechoslovakia -- 8.1 Naming and Labeling of Roma -- 8.1.1 A Letter to the State Attorney's Office in Uherské Hradiště -- 8.1.2 A Letter to the Provincial Office in Prague -- Comments -- 8.2 Schooling of the Roma -- 8.2.1 A Letter to the President Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk -- 8.2.2 A Letter to the President's Office -- Comments -- 8.3 Associations -- 8.3.1 The Union of the Czechoslovak Gypsy Musicians -- 8.3.2 The Establishment of the Society for the Study of the Gypsy Question -- 8.3.3 The General Assembly of the Society -- 8.3.4 A Quarter-Hour with Chief Physician Stuchlík about the Gypsies -- 8.3.5 Social and Educational Activities of the State Police in Košice -- 8.3.6 A Letter to the City Council in Košice (1) -- 8.3.7 A Letter to the City Council in Košice (2) -- 8.3.8 The Report on the Activities of the 'Lavutarisz' Society in Košice -- 8.3.9 The Celebration of the 500th Anniversary of the Arrival of Gypsies in Slovakia -- Comments -- Additional Comments -- Chapter 9. Poland -- 9.1 The Gypsy Kings -- 9.1.1 King Jan Michałak-Michailescu -- 9.1.2 King Michał Kwiek in Krakow -- Comments.

9.1.3 Chancellor Rudolf Kwiek.