Re: Bulgarian Roma in MAdrid

[Carol Freeman <tsipra...>]

One of the most famous Rom singers in the world, Esma Redzhepova, from
Macedonia, proports to be one-quarter Jewish.

Judith Cohen wrote:

> hi, a quick note before I head up north (Asturias) -
> last night in the Plaza Mayor (main square) I stopped
> to hear a couple of street musicians (accordion and
> kaval), ended up singing Bulgarian songs with them and
> going back to their place for a late supper. They
> turned out to be Roma, and Trojan´s wife had an
> interesting story: her paternal grandmother was
> Jewish, and for reasons I didn´t totally understand
> (her Spanish was elementary and my Bulgarian is
> elementary) was left with her great-grandparents as a
> small child; the parents never returned and the
> grandmother grwew up Roma, eventually marrying a Gypsy
> and only finding out later she was Jewish - the family
> is actually proud of this and delighted to learnI was
> Jewish. We sat up late playing and singing Bulgarian
> and Macedonian (and a couple of Sephardic) songs -
> with accoerdeonj, kaval and synthesizer.... Cheers, Judith
>
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