﻿ TY - BOOK DB - /z-wcorg/ DP - http://worldcat.org ID - 32387216 LA - English T1 - Bury me standing : the Gypsies and their journey A1 - Fonseca, Isabel., David Lindroth Inc.,, PB - Alfred A. Knopf CY - New York Y1 - 1995/// SN - 0679406786 9780679406785 AB - After the revolutions of 1989, the author lived and traveled with the Gypsies of Bulgaria, Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, the former Yugoslavia, Romainia, and Albania -- listening to their stories and recording their attempts to become something more than despised outsiders. In this book, alongside unforgettable portraits of individuals -- the poet, the politician, the child prostitute- - are vivid insights into the wit, language, wisdom, and taboos of the Roma. The author also traces their long-ago exodus out of India and their history of relentless persecution: enslaved by the princes of medieval Romania; massacred by the Nazis in what the Roma call "the Devouring"; forcibly assimilated by the communist regime; and, most recently, evicted from their settlements by nationalistic mobs in the new "democracies" of the East, and under violent attack in the Western countries to which many have fled. ER -