Author: Fonseca, Isabel,
Title: Bury Me Standing: the gypsies and their journey.
Description: NY, Vintage, (1995). 1st ptg. VG PB. Sharp insights into the humor, language, wisdom & taboos of the gypsies. Fonseca traces their exodux from India 1,000 years ago. & their persecution: enslaved by medieval Romanian princes, massacred by the Nazis, forcibly assimilated by communist regimes, most recently evicted from their settlement by nationalist mobs in new "deomocracies" of Eastern Europe. Fonseca details her 4 years spent studying gypsies from Albania to Poland.

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