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Paula Simon
Historian and doctoral candidate in the RTG "Ambivalent Enmity" at Heidelberg University, researching anti-Roma racism in interwar Yugoslavia.
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Nov 2, 2026
Antigypsyism in Yugoslavia 1918-1945
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4:29Fabian BaumannHOST
Do the sources mostly represent external views of the Serbian Roma or can you also recover the voices of Romani people themselves?
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4:41Paula SimonGUEST
That's a really interesting question and already brings us to the core of my problem with this topic.
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4:51Paula SimonGUEST
But the situation is such that there is... mostly actually external views that can be recovered.
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5:00Paula SimonGUEST
This is also why two of my three main chapters are basically what I would call research of historical anti-gypsyism.
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5:10Paula SimonGUEST
So I talk about or I analyze the ways the majority society thinks, writes about, constructs what they see as the gypsy image or what they see are elements of this category that we're talking about.
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14:32Fabian BaumannHOST
So can you give some examples of this fascination and how it is at the same time connected to the devaluation of Roma people?