The Roma: A Minority in Europe. Historical, Political and Social Perspectives
Romani Studies › Vol. 19 Nbr. 1, June 2009
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Zimmermann s point of departure is an unfortunate debate driven by several academics, including in particular the historian Guenter Lewy, who appear intent on reserving the terms "Holocaust" and or "genocide" for the treatment of Jews during World War IL Zimmermann begins his intervention into this discussion with the seemingly unpromising start of seeking to compare the treatment of Jews, Gypsies and Soviet prisoners of war - seemingly unpromising because Jews and Roma/Gypsies had been components of the Nazis* racial ideology since they came to power in 1933, whereas Soviet prisoners of war followed only after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. [...] the title of the book is something of a misnomer, insofar as only a limited number of the essays have much to say about "Roma, a minority in Europe", other than as an object of persecution.
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The Roma: A Minority in Europe. Historical, Political and Social Perspectives
The Roma: A minority in Europe. Historical, political and social perspectives. Roni Stauber and Raphael Vago (eds.). Budapest, New York: Central European University Press, 2007. 185 pp. ISBN 978-63-7326-86-8.
The book under review is a collection of essays arising from a conference held in Israel in 2002, although a number of the articles included make reference to events after 2004 and so have evidently been subsequently revised. The book brings together a number of leading authors working on Romani history, and in particular on the history of Roma in the 20th century, including Erika Thurner, a leading scholar on the Romani Holocaust in Austria; the late Michael Zimmermann, a historian of state practices and the Holoc...See the full content of this document
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