In Search of the True Gypsy: From Enlightenment to Final Solution

Wim Willems, Don Bloch (Translator)

ISBN 10: 0714642223 / ISBN 13: 9780714642222

Published by Routledge, 1998

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Summary: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 to today.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Search of the True Gypsy: From Enlightenment to Final Solution
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0714642223
• ISBN 13: 9780714642222
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anthropology
  • European History

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Synopsis

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 to today.

About the Author

Wim Willems