The signs came down almost as fast as they went up: plain white sheets of paper, plastered to a Rowland Heights gas station door, prohibiting Romani women from entering. “No Gypsy women in long ...

Author Oksana Marafioti's new memoir, American Gypsy (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), is two success stories in one: one of an immigrant making her way in America, the other of a Gypsy. At 15, Marafioti ...

My grandmother was a Romani (Gypsy) woman from Hungary. The Romani people feel most comfortable among the Jewish folks. Thus I grew up as the only Goy (non-Jew) in my apartment building in the Bronx, ...