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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790985403321

Autore

Willems Wim.

Titolo

In search of the true gypsy : from enlightenment to final solution / / Wim Willems ; translated by Don Bloch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

0-7146-4222-3

1-315-81022-0

1-317-79189-4

1-317-79190-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (378 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BlochDon

Disciplina

305.891/49704

Soggetti

Romanies - Europe

Europe Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published in 1997 by Routledge.

The Dutch original was originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Leiden.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Heinrich Moritz Gottlieb Grellmann (1753-1804): an enlightened historian and his sources; 3. George Borrow (1803-81): the walking lord of Gypsy lore; 4. The heirs of George Borrow; 5. Robert Ritter (1901-51): eugenist and criminological biologist; 6. Conclusions; Annex 1: the publications of H.M.G. Grellmann; Annex 2: reviews of H.M.G. Grellmann's book on Gypsies; Annex 3: sources for The Zincali; Annex 4: reviews of the works of George Borrow

Annex 5: summary of Robert Ritter's publications and lecturesAnnex 6: reviews of Robert Ritter's Ein Menschenschlag; Archives; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

It has only been recognised tardily and with reluctance that during the Second World War hundreds of thousands of itinerants met the same horrendous fate as Jews and other victims of Nazism. Gypsies appear to appeal to the imagination simply as social outcasts and scapegoats or, in a flattering but no more illuminating light, as romantic outsiders.In



this study, contemporary notions about Gypsies are traced back as far as possible to their roots, in an attempt to lay bare why stigmatisation of gypsies, or rather groups labelled as such, has continuned from the distant past even