electronic book may arouse doubts about its value as an academic resource, this work delivers plenty of interesting insights and observations. "Jud Nirenberg is a respected consultant, public speaker, author and interpreter of the Romani quest for empowerment. " makes a significant contribution to Romani communal memory with realism and wit, without losing his grounding or honest engagement with the movement.” – Rebekah Klein-Pejsova, Professor, Purdue University A novel based closely on insider experience, Gypsy Movements brings the reader into the middle of human rights struggles in new and shaky democracies, following. An American from small-town New England, Jud Nirenberg became one of the Romani movement's key personalities, working for a Romani political party, running billionaire George Soros' charitable support of the movement and working as the right hand to each of the movement's most charismatic figures as they rose up, taking one another's places in the dawn of Eastern Europe's freedom. Here is the truth about flawed people aspiring toward the noblest goals.Īfter the fall of communism, the Roma (Gypsies), Europe's largest and poorest ethnic minority group began a civil rights movement. He has served as Director of Government and Foundation Relations at the Jane Goodall Institute and been associate director of the US Association for UNHCR.A novel based closely on insider experience, Gypsy Movements brings the reader into the middle of human rights struggles in new and shaky democracies, following Roma (Gypsy) leaders from late-night parties in Budapest to the camps where war refugees are denied news of home. Outside of Romani issues, he has managed democratization and human rights projects and worked in more than ten countries, including Afghanistan, Libya, Bosnia, the Czech Republic, Kenya, France and the United States. He has been interviewed on television in the United States, Australia, Hungary and Macedonia. His other writing includes op-ed pieces in publications across Europe such as the Prague Post, Romano Kurko and Romano Nevo Lil. He is a co-author of Romani Politics in Contemporary Europe (Palgrave-MacMillan) and is co-author and editor of Gypsy Sexuality: Romani and Outsider Perspectives on Intimacy (Clambake Press). He has repeatedly been a guest lecturer at the Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute and at think tanks and universities across the United States. Nirenberg is currently the president of the board of Macedonia’s National Roma Center.
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