Re: A QUERY

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"Paul M. Gifford" wrote:

> Susan Lerner <meydele (at) ix(dot)netcom(dot)com> wrote:
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> > Czechoslovakia, as well as the US and te British Isles, the only reference
> > to gypsies in Ukraine (or even Russia) is: 1933, Sergievskij, M.V., Book
> > Review of Gypsies of the Ukraine, Journal of Gypsy Lore Society (ser.3)
> > 12:52-54.  Good luck!
> >
> Also in that same journal (maybe from 1950) is an article by Jerzy
> Ficowski which talks about the Wais family from Volhynia, which
> survived the War by escaping to the woods and at the time were
> itinerant musicians in western Poland. Ficowski wrote a nice picture
> book about Polish Gypsies, but it's of course in Polish.

English translation "The Gypsies in Poland:  History and Customs" by Eileen
Healy Published by Interpress Publishers
(Printed in Yugoslavia)
ISBN 83-223-2321-2
My copy, purchased in Poland 1994, -- bears no date of publication.

Wolf Krakowski

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