In Search of the True Gypsy

From Enlightenment to Final Solution

Nonfiction, History
Cover of the book In Search of the True Gypsy by Wim Willems, Taylor and Francis
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Author: Wim Willems ISBN: 9781317791898
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: January 14, 2014
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Wim Willems
ISBN: 9781317791898
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: January 14, 2014
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

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.

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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.

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