Rasim Zabunov Collection of Manush Romanov Songs [1975]
Scope & Content:
This collection consists of digital images of one manuscript entitled "Gypsy Old, Oldest Songs". The manuscript is a collection of old folklore songs known among Gypsies all over Bulgaria.
Manuscript with the title Gypsy Old, Oldest Songs written in Romany and Bulgarian. The manuscript is a collection of old folklore songs known among Gypsies all over Bulgaria. The original is a Xerox copy.
Petko Asenov Collection of Svetilnik Newspapers [1927]
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This collection consists of digital images of a 1927 edition of the Svetilnik [Candelabrum] newspaper. The original newspaper was purchased by Petko Asenov in an antiquarian bookshop during the 1980s. Svetilnik is one of the first evangelical newspapers written for a Gypsy audience. It was publis...
After forced sedentarism of nomadic Moldavian Roma Groups implemented by the Soviet authorities at mid-twentieth century and massive industrialization of the Soviet economy – more traditional occupations of the Roma have disappeared. One of these traditional Romany crafts which are missing today ...
First Evangelical Gypsy Baptist Church's collection of archival materials
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Documents from First Evangelical Gypsy Baptist Church' s collection. Extent: 2 notebook collections of Evangelical songs; 1 booklet of History of the Evangelical Baptist Church in Lom; 1 archival document; 1 brief manuscript history of the Gypsy Church in the village Golintsi. Condition of ori...
A collection of 80 Evangelical songs. It is in Bulgarian and Romany. Only part of the collection is preserved (pages 91-264). Many pages of the notebook are torn and lost. The composer is Todor Petrov Erinkin (conductor of the church choir) from the First Gypsy Baptist Church in Mladenovo, Lom. ...