Recommended Websites
The featured Websites are selected to inform viewers about Gypsy culture and related knowledge. Some websites are no longer accessibile except through the Internet Archives Wayback Machine. Please note also that the current images on the live websites may be different from those in the screenshots.
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Fascination and Hatred: The Roma in European Culture
Description: "There is insufficient attention paid to the long history of the Roma within European culture." October 10, 2020"
URL: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/roma-european-culture
Geographical Arrangement
The Americas
About the Roma: Romani Americans Then and Now
A blog by Julie Cantrell with an overview of different Romani-American groups.
URL: https://juliecantrell.wordpress.com/2012/02/04/about-the-roma-romani-americans-then-and-now/
Gypsies
National Geographic Magazine article. Excellent photographic images from around the world. Provocative discussion forum.
URL: http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0104/feature4/index.html [archived]
"Gypsies" in the United States
An exhibit in the Smithsonian Institution' "Migrations in History" exporing diverse "Gypsy" communities such as the Rom, Ludar, Romnichels, Black Dutch, and Hungarian Gypsies.
URL: https://smithsonianeducation.org/migrations/gyp/gypstart.html
The Gypsy Chronicles
The Gypsy Chronicles - A comprehensive site on Roma history, culture, authors and artists, photography, and music.
URL: https://thegypsychroniclesblog.wordpress.com/
Gypsy Lore Society
Gypsy Lore Society (founded 1888). Excellent entry-level resource promoting the highest standards for scholarly research in Gypsy (Romani) and Traveler studies
URL: https://www.gypsyloresociety.org/
National Romani Anti-Discrimination Organization
An organization of educators, activists, sympathizers, and supporters to: monitor anti-Roma disrimination in public and the media; to provide accurate information; to raise awareness of issues facing Roma; expose sources of inaccurate information; and to support projects and initiatives supporting Romani people and their supporters.
URL: http://www.nrado.com/Home_Page.php [archived]
The Never-ending Road: American Roma (Gypsy ), Travellers, & "Others"
Links to sites about Roma living in the Americas.
URL: https://sciway3.net/clark/freemoors/index.html
Notes from the Field
This site focuses on Romani gravestones in a Los Angeles cemetery, motivated by observations of religious dance societies in Northern Chile in 1986 with roots in The Croatian Diaspora.
Roma (Gypsies) in Prewar Europe
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) website here houses many articles and photographs. Featured here are three film clips.
URL: https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/media_fi.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005395&MediaId=194 [archived]
Romani people
Wikipedia article
URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people
Romani (Gypsy) Culture on the Internet
Compilation by Professor Steve Balkin, Roosevelt University, Chicago, Illinois.
URL: http://faculty.roosevelt.edu/Balkin/roma.htm [archived]
Eurasia, Africa, Pacifica
Romani People in Europe
Europeana (The European Digital Library): Romani Culture Featured in Digital Exhibition. The exhibits will feature A Roma Journey with historical documentation of Europe's Roma communities and links to Romani cultural objects such as carpets, furniture, and costumes.
URL: https://www.europeana.eu/en/galleries/9060-romani-people-in-europe
European Roma Rights Center (ERRC)
Sophisticated educational site dedicated to training Romani activists.
URL: http://www.errc.org/
Irish Traveller Movement
Details about the Irish Traveller Movement
URL: https://itmtrav.ie/
George Borrow Society Page
Borrow is much-admired for his inspirational writings about Gypsies and Travelers.
URL: http://georgeborrow.org/static/george-borrow-works.html
Journey Folki
Convivial site: glad-handed nostalgia with arts and crafts orientation
URL: https://www.journeyfolki.org.uk/
The Patrin Web Journal
Romani Culture and History. The most comprehensive and popular English-language website for online information about GR&T Peoples. Unfortunately it has not been updated since 2002.
URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20100501014909/http://reocities.com/Paris/5121/ [archived]
A Roma Journey
A highy interactive multimedia Web presentation of Romani culture in the Balkans, featuring text, photos, paintings,and recordings of traditional songs.
URL: http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/exhibition/roma_journey/eng/ [archived]
Romaninet
"A course for adults and young people, suitable for being used by everybody, no matter the academic level." This multi-lingual site teaches about Romani culture and language to a broad audience, using games and exercises, skteches, animations, and dialogues.""
URL: http://www.romaninet.com/?sec=home [archived]
Social Cultural Foundation
A website that advocates for Rroma peoples and informs about their cultures and lifestyles
URL: http://www.icfoundation.ro/
"Who We Were, Who We Are
Kosovar Roma Oral History. The site offers an index to oral histories of Kosovar Roma.
URL: http://balkanproject.org/
