A Thrown Gauntlet Josef Serinek and Jan Tesař as a Challenge for Current Research into the History of the Roma in the 20th Century
2019
Abstract
Review of a large trilogy entitled Česká cikánská rapsodie [The Czech gypsy rhapsody], by Jan Tesař, dealing principally with the fate of Romani partisan Josef Serinek during the Second World War. Summarizing major aspects of the existing writing on the history of the Roma, the text stresses the uniqueness of the trilogy from the perspective of existing knowledge of the history of the Roma in Czechoslovakia in the first half of the 20th century as well as from the perspective of historiography and methodology used in the research on the history of the Roma.