Media contributions
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Title Volha Bartash, Tomasz Kamusella, and Viktor Shapoval eds., "Papusza/Bronislawa Wajs. Tears of Blood: A Poet's Witness Account of the Nazi Genocide of Roma" (Brill, 2024) Degree of recognition International Media name/outlet New Books Network Media type Podcast Duration/Length/Size 1h 9m Country/Territory Germany Date 16/07/25 Description Papusza / Bronisława Wajs. Tears of Blood: A Poet’s Witness Account of the Nazi Genocide of Roma (Brill, 2024) is nothing less of an academic, literary, and historical miracle. It is dedicated to a key figure of Romani literature, Bronisława Wajs, also known as Papusza. This book offers—for the very first time in history—the full version of Papusza’s key work, Tears of Blood, which was considered lost for seventy years and circulated only in a highly reduced copy. This poem is a unique account by a woman about the Roma Holocaust in Eastern Europe during WWII. Beyond this important historical and literary document, the book also provides literary translations of this manuscript into several languages, including English, and has chapters written by leading researchers of Romani Studies who comment on the history of this text and the challenges behind making it available to the broader public. It took the team over three decades to locate the manuscript, transcribe it, translate it, and fill in the gaps in its history.
Volha Bartash is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Münster in Germany and a co-convenor of the network “Margins of Memory: Cultures and Politics of Non-Hegemonic Remembrance.”
Tomasz Kamusella is Reader in Modern Central and Eastern European History at the University of St Andrews, whose work focuses on language politics and nationalism.
Host: Tatiana Klepikova is a Freigeist Fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation and leads a research group on queer literatures and cultures under socialism at the University of Regensburg.Producer/Author Tatiana Klepikova URL https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/volha-bartash-tomasz-kamusella-and-viktor-shapoval/id477719156?i=1000717489469 Persons Tomasz Kamusella Title Papusza/Bronislawa Wajs. Tears of Blood A Poet's Witness Account of the Nazi Genocide of Roma Degree of recognition International Media name/outlet New Books Network Media type Podcast Duration/Length/Size 1h 9m Date 16/07/25 Description Papusza/Bronislawa Wajs. Tears of Blood
A Poet's Witness Account of the Nazi Genocide of Roma
Volha Bartash, Tomasz Kamusella, and Viktor Shapoval
Hosted by Tatiana Klepikova
Summary
Papusza / Bronisława Wajs. Tears of Blood: A Poet’s Witness Account of the Nazi Genocide of Roma (Brill, 2024) is nothing less of an academic, literary, and historical miracle. It is dedicated to a key figure of Romani literature, Bronisława Wajs, also known as Papusza. This book offers—for the very first time in history—the full version of Papusza’s key work, Tears of Blood, which was considered lost for seventy years and circulated only in a highly reduced copy. This poem is a unique account by a woman about the Roma Holocaust in Eastern Europe during WWII. Beyond this important historical and literary document, the book also provides literary translations of this manuscript into several languages, including English, and has chapters written by leading researchers of Romani Studies who comment on the history of this text and the challenges behind making it available to the broader public. It took the team over three decades to locate the manuscript, transcribe it, translate it, and fill in the gaps in its history.
Volha Bartash is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Münster in Germany and a co-convenor of the network “Margins of Memory: Cultures and Politics of Non-Hegemonic Remembrance.”
Tomasz Kamusella is Reader in Modern Central and Eastern European History at the University of St Andrews, whose work focuses on language politics and nationalism.
Host: Tatiana Klepikova is a Freigeist Fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation and leads a research group on queer literatures and cultures under socialism at the University of Regensburg.Producer/Author Tatiana Klepikova URL https://newbooksnetwork.com/papusza-bronislawa-wajs-tears-of-blood Persons Tomasz Kamusella
Keywords
- Papusza
- Tears of Blood
- Roma Holocaust
- Roma literature
- European literature
- European history
- Roma History