Saip Jusuf
Šaip Jusuf ( Cyrillic Шаип Јусуф ; * around 1933 - † January 29, 2010 ) was a Yugoslav author, translator and association official.
Life
He belonged to the Roma ethnic group and studied at the University of Belgrade to become a sports teacher. He lived in Skopje . From Islam he converted to Hinduism , which he regarded as the religion of his ancestors. He was one of the organizers of the first World Conference of Roma, which took place in London in 1971 , and was a leading member of the Yugoslav national association of the International Romani Union .
He wrote a textbook of Southeast European Romani and, together with Krume Kepeski , a grammar of this language, the manuscript of which was completed in 1973, but which was only published by Naša Kniga in Skopje in 1980 in an edition of 3000 copies .
Works
- (with Krume Kepeski): Romani gramatika / Romska gramatika (grammar of Romani; bilingual Romani and Macedonian), 1980
translation
- Amen sam e Titoeske, O Tito si amaro , 1979 (Serbo-Croatian original edition: Drago Zdunić and others: Mi smo Titovi, Tito je nas , 1978)
literature
- Isabel Fonseca: Bury me upright. In the footsteps of the gypsies . 1996, ISBN 3-463-40198-3 , pp. 147-153
- Victor A. Friedman: The Romani Language in the Republic of Macedonia . In: Acta Linguistica Hungarica , vol. 46.1999, pp. 317–339, springerlink.com (PDF)
- Grattan Puxon: Romanes and Language Policy in Jugoslavia . In: International Journal of the Sociology of Language , Vol. 19.1979, pp. 83-90
Web links
- Obituary by Grattan Puxon on Roma Daily News (yahoo-group)
- Literature by and about Šaip Jusuf in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Individual evidence
- ↑ he died "at the age of 77", ie at the age of 76, see jugpress.com ( memento of December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) or at the age of 77 (as in the obituary by Puxon)
- ↑ dzeno.cz
- ↑ cf. Ilona Klímová-Alexander: The Romani voice in world politics: the United Nations and non-state actors . 2005, ISBN 0-7546-4173-2 , p. 20 ( books.google.de )
- ↑ cf. Friedman, p. 324
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jusuf, Saip |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Yugoslav author, translator and association official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1933 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 29, 2010 |