The New Jews

“If there had been no Jews, they would have been invented.” Today, the nations of the former Soviet bloc are reinventing the traditional ethnic scapegoat role that used to be reserved for the Jews. This time, the Romany (Gypsy) population is forced to play the unenviable role of me “other.” The Romanies are far better suited for their newly invented role than me Jews. After the Holocaust, there are more Romanies than Jews in Eastern and Central Europe. It is easy to recognize Romanies, whose ancestors immigrated to Europe from northern India during the late Middle Ages. Romanies do not have a state or influential diaspora to protect them, nor international public opinion to defend them

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