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Her cafés, which encompassed the functions of bistro and salon for the bohemian intelligentsia, [1] were popular restaurants which attracted the core of the Greenwich Village cultural scene, [2] "hot spots for creative types," [3] which she considered centers for her "circle of thinking people," [4]: [p.39] the circle which she had sought since 1901 when she arrived in the United States from ...
Romani people in Chicago are an ethnic group in the Chicago area. Around 5,000 to 10,000 Roma reside in the Chicago area. [1] Romani people first came to Chicago in the 1880s. In 2023, the Romani flag was raised for International Romani Day in Chicago. [2]
These Hungarian Gypsy musicians played all the major Hungarian events, and many American events for over 100 years, and in the finest restaurants in the country. [7] They also played many weddings and special occasions, including movies. For over 100 years, newspaper articles, books, and journals documented them and their traditions.
Louis Szathmary (born Lajos István Szathmáry II [1] June 2, 1919 – October 4, 1996) was a Hungarian-American chef, writer, and public personality.A pioneering force in the food service profession, he is best known for heading the Chicago restaurant The Bakery and writing the New York Times bestseller The Chef's Secret Cookbook.
The Roma first came to Chicago during the large waves of Southern and Eastern European immigration to the United States in the 1880s until World War I. Two separate Romani subgroups settled in Chicago, the Machwaya and the Kalderash. The Machwaya came from Serbia and parts of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. They settled on the Southeast Side of ...
"Burial of a Gypsy Queen. Twenty Thousand Persons Present—The Services—Character And History of the Gypsies." New York Times, 16 September 1878, page 1. "Notable Gypsy Burial." New York Times, 22 April 1882, page 4. History of Dayton and Montgomery County, Ohio. Chicago: W. H. Beers & Co. 1882. "Body of Gypsy King Placed in Vault."
Gypsy Boy: One Boy's Struggle to Escape from a Secret World by Mikey Walsh (2010) - The story of a Gypsy boy growing up in a Romany Gypsy family during the 80s and 90s. Gypsy Boy on the Run by Mikey Walsh (2011) - The continuing story as Mikey decides to leave his Romany community and his life among the non-Gypsies.
In the English language, Romani people have long been known by the exonym Gypsies or Gipsies, [88] which many Roma consider to be an ethnic slur. [ 89 ] [ 90 ] [ 91 ] The attendees of the first World Romani Congress in 1971 unanimously voted to reject the use of all exonyms for the Roma, including "Gypsy". [ 92 ]