Zoran Dimov
created: 17. 01. 2023 10:33 modified: 08. 02. 2024 11:21
The photo from the archive of the NGO Jekhetane-Spolu, which captures Zoran Dimov, the founder of a private Romani TV station, during the 5th Congress of the International Romani Union (IRU), which took place from 24th to 28th of July, 2000 in Prague.
The photo shows him together with other participants of the Congress.
Zoran Dimov started the first private Romani radio and TV station RTV BTR National in 1993. Currently, he is the President of the International Romani Union (IRU). He was born in 1965 in Skopje, Northern Macedonia.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic in persona photography Zoran Dimov general audience internal
Eva Davidová
created: 17. 01. 2023 10:16 modified: 17. 01. 2023 10:16
The photo from the NGO Jekhetane-Spolu, which shows Eva Davidová, a leading romologist and photographer during the 5th Congress of the International Romani Union (IRU), which took place from 24th to 28th of July, 2000 in Prague.
The photo captures her together with other participants of the Congress.
Eva Davidová was the Czech art historian, ethnologist, sociologist and photographer. She was among the founders of the Czech Romani Studies. Since the middle fifties of 20th century she systematically researched the way of life of Roma from ethnological point of view.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic in persona photography Eva Davidová general audience internal
Milena Hübschmannová
created: 16. 01. 2023 15:17 modified: 16. 01. 2023 15:18
A photo from the NGO Jekhetane-Spolu archive, the picture of Milena Hübschmannová, a leading romologist participating at the 5th Congress of the International Romani Union (IRU), which took place from 24th to 28th July, 2000 in Prague.
The photo shows her with the known historian and linguist Marcel Courthiade. The photo was published in the newspaper Romano nevo ľil, 448-454/2000 on page 14.
Doc. PhDr. Milena Hübschmannová, CSc. was a well-known Czech university pedagogue, the founder of the Romani studies department in Philosophical Faculty of the Charles’s University in Prague.
From 1951 to 1956 she studied the Hindu, Urdu and Bengal languages at the Philosophical Faculty of the Charles’s University in Prague. In 1953 her life-long interest in Romani language and Romani culture had started, then she became active in the Romani emancipation movement.
She collected Romani folklore, fairy-tales, fables, songs, proverbs, magic, later also the ethnological data.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic in persona photography Milena Hübschmannová general audience internal
Marcel Courthiade
created: 16. 01. 2023 15:00 modified: 01. 02. 2023 10:54
The photos from the Jekhetane-Spolu Association archive, which picture Marcel Courthiade, a leading Romani figure, during the 5th Congress of the International Romani Union (IRU), which took place on 24.-28. July, 2000 in Prague.
One of the photos shows him together with the prominent Czech romologist Milena Hübschmannova (1933-2005). The photo was published in the Romano nevo ľil (the Romani newspaper) in 448-454/2000 on page 14.
Marcel Courthiade was a French linguist and scientist. He studied medicine at the University in Clermont-Ferrand, later he abandoned this field of studies. He started studying the Slavonic languages, later he gained strong expertise in the Romani language, thanks to his in-depth research of it.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic in persona photography Marcel Courthiade general audience internal
Ján Cibuľa
created: 16. 01. 2023 13:50 modified: 16. 01. 2023 13:51
The photos from the Jekhetane-Spolu Association, which capture Ján Cibuľa, one of the leading Romani figures, during the 5th Congress of the International Roma Union (IRU), which took place on July 24-28, 2000 in Prague.
The photo was published in the Romano nevo ľil (the Romani newspaper) no. 448-454/2000 on p. 14.
Ján Cibuľa, MD. (* January 7, 1932, Klenovec – † August 18, 2013, Bern) was a Slovak doctor of Romani origin. Co-founder of the Gypsies-Roma Union in Slovakia, participant of the first meeting of the International Romani Union in Orpington. He led a twelve-member delegation of Western and Eastern Roma to the UN headquarters in New York and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
He graduated from the gymnasium in Rimavská Sobota. His father was a violinist. In 1957, he became the first Roma in what was then Czechoslovakia to graduate from the Faculty of Medicine of the Comenius University in Bratislava. In 1968, he became a co-founder of the Gypsies-Roma Union.
He was the first President of the IRU in 1971.
category: fine arts
tags: secular digital artistic in persona photography Ján Cibuľa general audience internal
Štefan Tupý, Podskalka, Humenné
created: 13. 01. 2023 14:34 modified: 13. 01. 2023 14:34
The interview is a part of the research project focused on collecting the memoirs of people dwelling in Podskalka, a Romani quarter of the town Humenné. The researcher is Peter Kudráč, the local activist. The respondents participating in the project answer questions about their origin, dwelling place, education, profession, memories of the events and changes after 1968 and 1989, as well as about the form and content of the Romani culture. The interview is in Romani language. Person interviewed was Štefan Tupý, the interview was lead by Peter Kudráč.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical dialogue guided Romani Štefan Tupý general audience internal
Anna Jurová: After the War
created: 13. 01. 2023 13:21 modified: 13. 01. 2023 13:22
The interview with historian Anna Jurová was conducted by Daniela Hivešová-Šilanová and was recorded for the purposes of the article "Illegally Built Romani Settlements? "Another Disinformation in the Slovak Media! In Romano nevo ľil, year 11, no. 509(455)-517(463) (2001), p. 17.
In the third part of the interview Dr. Jurová talks about the situation of Roma in Slovakia after the end of World War II until the 1990s, when after 1989 property was settled in restitution and many Roma settlements found themselves on land that did not belong to them. Based on her research and historical sources, Dr. Jurová gives a concrete answer as to whether Roma settlements in Slovakia are legal or not.
category: speaking
tags: academic factual dialogue humanities Anna Jurová Daniela Hivešová-Šilanová general audience internal
Anna Jurová: War Years
created: 13. 01. 2023 13:17 modified: 13. 01. 2023 13:18
The interview with historian Anna Jurová was conducted by Daniela Hivešová-Šilanová and was recorded for the purposes of the article "Illegally Built Romani Settlements?" Another Disinformation in the Slovak Media! In Romano nevo ľil, year 11, no. 509(455)-517(463) (2001), p. 17.
In the second part of the interview Dr. Jurová, from a historical point of view, speaks about the life of Roma in the territory of Slovakia during the wartime Slovak state, when various anti-Roma decrees were issued that denied them the rights, limited their free movement, travel, and work. On April 20, 1941, a decree of the Ministry of the Interior was adopted on the eviction of Roma from the villages to a remote place designated by the village, which was later repeated in 1943, signed by the Minister of the Interior Mach. Work and concentration camps were established, the number of people imprisoned was defined by the municipalities themselves.
category: speaking
tags: academic factual dialogue humanities Anna Jurová Daniela Hivešová-Šilanová general audience internal
Anna Jurová: Settling of Romani People in Slovak Villages
created: 11. 01. 2023 14:36 modified: 11. 01. 2023 15:15
The interview with historian Anna Jurová was conducted by Daniela Hivešová-Šilanová and was recorded for the purposes of the article "Illegally Built Romani Settlements?" Another Disinformation in the Slovak Media! In Romano nevo ľil, year 11, no. 509(455)-517(463) (2001), p. 17.
In the first part of the interview Dr. Jurová sheds light on the historical context, causes and reasons for the settlement of Roma in our territory. Based on historical sources and documentary evidence, she presented a brief summary of the arrival of Roma in Slovakia from the 14th century to the 18th century, when they had to abandon their nomadic way of life during the reign of Maria Theresa and Joseph II. At the end of the 18th century, censuses were taken in individual counties, on the basis of which it was found that around 20 thousand Roma lived in Slovakia during this period. Subsequently,she mentions several towns and villages where the Roma lived, how long and their approximate number, also the way of life and livelihood.
category: speaking
tags: academic factual dialogue humanities Anna Jurová Daniela Hivešová-Šilanová general audience internal
Tibor Demeter - The Interview
created: 11. 01. 2023 13:04 modified: 11. 01. 2023 13:10
Tibor Demeter's memoir. In the interview, he talks about his family, childhood, studies, life, as well as memories of the Easter holidays and family customs. In the background, his wife completes his narration.
The regional history of Roma living in the village of Brekov is the subject of the audio recordings, which DICRK obtained free of charge from researcher Elena Cinová. In 2020, her research project entitled The Brekov Roma in the Flow of Time was supported by the Fund for the Support of the Culture of National Minorities. Guided interviews are in the Slovak language and introduce life, culture and social changes in the region.
category: speaking
tags: retrospective biographical dialogue guided Slovak Tibor Demeter general audience internal
