Congratulations to RomMig’s Eve Rosenhaft!
Her article, Romani Berlin: ‘Gypsy’ Presence, the Culture of the Horse Market and the Shaping of Urban Space 1890–1933, was chosen as the winner of the European History Quarterly Article Prize 2022.
The piece formed part of a Special Issue of the BESTROM project entitled The Historical Presence of the Roma People in European Public Spaces in the 19th and 20th centuries
The judges made the following comments:
“Through the compelling lens of horse markets in early twentieth-century Berlin, this article provides a masterful analysis of the production of urban space. The research ranges across archival evidence and media representations to trace community interactions and networks. While critically noting the challenges of working on such materials, Rosenhaft commits to innovative handling in the use of mapping to visualize the data. A highly nuanced argument is constructed around varied images and lived experiences of interactions across and beyond the Roma communities, and it is finally situated in the idea of Berlin as ‘a space of fractured and layered remembering’. Having skilfully unpicked this rich historical material to cast light on urban spatial concepts, Rosenhaft poignantly draws attention to how such histories have been overshadowed by subsequent memorializations of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.”
Well done, Eve!