The Jew, The Gypsy and El Islam

The Romá of the North American Republic are well known, and their emigration is of modern date. During the wars between England and France which followed the great Revolution ma...

The present chapter contains many an assertion which will make the expert Talmudist smile. It will, however, serve one most useful purpose--namely, to show what the Christians a...

M. Paul Bataillard--ominous name!--who has thus offered me battle in the _Academy_, is apparently an indefatigable _Tsiganologue_,[106] to use his own compound; and he seems to...

If there is anything persistent in Gypsy tradition, it is the assertion that the Gypsies originally came from the banks of the Nile--that Egypt, in fact, gave them a local habit...

Of all Europeans, the Englishman, who boasts of being a staunch friend to the people “scattered and peeled,” and whose confident ignorance and indiscriminate philanthropy are be...

In dealing with the Jews of the Holy Land, it is well to remember that the two great branches of the Hebrew race are the Sephardím and the Ashkenazím. They are both equally orth...

We find the Jats well and copiously described as early as 1835 by Lieutenant-Colonel W. H. Sleeman.[156] He called them “Jâts,” with a long vowel, and treats them everywhere as...

The history of the Jew as well as his physiological aspect are subjects which still remain to be considered and carefully to be worked out from an Aryan point of view. We have o...

The Czigany, as they are called, appeared early in the fifteenth century, and were supposed to have fled from Moghol persecution. King Sigismund, father of the heroic John Hunya...

Obviously such cruel and vindictive teaching as that recounted in the previous chapter must bear fruit in crime and atrocities. The occurrence of such deeds explains much of wha...

The following letter, which bears the author’s signature and the date Paris, May 28, 1875,[97] was the result of my communication to the _Academy_.[98] As I had objected to my t...

Before proceeding to the topographical portion of my subject, it may be well to review summarily the historical accounts of the Romá who overspread Europe during the fifteenth a...

“‘Professor de Goeje, of Leyden, has printed some interesting _Contributions to the History of the Gipsies_ (sic). He accepts the view propounded by Pott,[86] as early as 1853,...