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The Gypsies by Angus M Fraser; Mazal Holocaust Collection is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Gypsies about?

“Since their appearance in the Balkans over nine centuries ago, the Gypsies have doggedly refused to fall in with conventional settled life. When, in the fifteenth century, they knocked at the gates of Western Europe in the guise of pilgrims, they aroused intense curiosity as well as suspicion, and theories proliferated about their provenance. They remain a people whose culture and customs are beset with misunderstanding. This book describes their history. The story opens with an investigation into Gypsy origins, using the evidence of language and culture to identify their Indian ancestry. The author then traces the Gypsy migration through the Middle East, Europe and the world. They became renowned for their metal-working, music, fortune-telling, healing and horse-dealing. But right from the start they outraged latent prejudices in the settled populations they moved among. Governments sought to bring them to heel and they were harassed, outlawed, hunted down and banished. In what is now Rumania they were enslaved from the fourteenth century until the mid-nineteenth century; in 1725 the Prussians made the Gypsies into legal vermin and decreed that they could be hanged without trial;

Who reads The Gypsies?

Author

Angus M Fraser; Mazal Holocaust Collection

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780631159674

Category

history

Subjects

Social Science, Fiction, History

Rating

3.62 / 5 (51 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14