About the Library

The Romani Studies Collection is one of the library collections operated by the Celetná Library. Access to the books is provided through online requests from the UKAŽ discovery service; the books themselves are available for pick-up at Celetná Library.  

The collection comprises specialised publications with a comprehensive overview of the Romani people in the former Czechoslovakia, Europe, and beyond. The collection was created by the staff of the Seminar of Romani Studies (a field of study at CU FA since 1991) through continuous purchases, as well as personal donations and exchanges. Some of the books come from the estates of the founders of the field, Milena Hübschmannová and Hana Šebková.  

The library collection covers the history, language, and culture of the Romani people in a narrower and broader sense, as well as topics relating to their position in society, manifestations of prejudice to the Romani, and the struggle for equal rights.  

It includes publications on history, linguistics, anthropology, ethnography, musicology, literary studies, sociology, political science, psychology, pedagogy, etc. It also contains an extensive sub-collection on the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti.  

In addition to specialised publications, dictionaries, and textbooks, the collection also includes a sub-collection of fiction, focusing on texts by Roma authors. In addition to texts by authors, it also contains publications focusing on folklore. The collection also consists of a collection of Romani periodicals from Czechia and abroad. 

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