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The Newark Experience

Greeks

Remembering Newark's Greeks: An American Odyssey
Angelique Lampros. Virginia Beach, VA., Donning Co. Publishers, 2006. Available?
Greek Language Maintenance in the Newark Greek Community in New Jersey.
Denise Chrisoula Lagos. Thesis (Ed.D), Rutgers University, 1987. Available?
The Greek American Community of Essex County, New Jersey
John Antonakos. Bloomington, Ind., AuthorHouse, 2010. Available?

Gypsies

Kings? Queens? Palm Readers? Meet the City's Hidden Gypsies
Charles Cummings. Knowing Newark April 8, 1999.
A Group of Gypsies on City's Edge
Newark Sunday Call June 4, 1905, p. 40.
The Gypsy Tribe
The Pilot 60, Number 39, September 25, 1897, p. 6
"From twelve to twenty persons make up the average caravan to-day, although in some cases the bands number fifty or sixty. A very large band is the famous one of which old Chivodine Lovel is the chief. Every year Lovel’s band comes North and camps between Newark and Elizabeth, N. J., in the woods by the Boulevard. These Lovels are over sixty in number. At one time they were suspected of having abducted Charley Ross, but the fair-haired boy found in their camp and supposed to be little Ross was proved a nephew of old Chivodine, and is now heir apparent to the chieftaincy."
Forgotten in Life, Celebrated in Death: Romany (Gypsy) Grave Markers from Northern New Jersey
Richard Veit. Historical Archaeology 55(3), July 2021, pp. 400-420.
"The study is based on visits to 950 New Jersey cemeteries (Veit and Nonestied 2008:267–274) over a 10-year period (1997–2007) and detailed fieldwork in four burial grounds associated with the Gypsy, or Romany, people. Cemeteries for study were identified based on either published references that referred to Gypsy burials in these cemeteries or from markers that made specific reference to Gypsy identity. Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Plains, Hillside or Bottle Hill Cemetery in Madison, Rosedale Cemetery in Linden, and Evergreen Cemetery on the Hillside/Newark/Elizabeth border were examined in detail (Fig. 1). While all these burial grounds contain Romany burials, Rosedale and Evergreen have sections that are primarily devoted to Gypsy burial." Rutgers-restricted Access

Hungarians

A Newarki hirlap emlekkonyve
1942. Available?
Newarki hirlap = Newark journal
Newark, N.J., Paul 'Acs Available?

Poles

"Poles Strengthened Newark's Cultural and Industrial Traditions." Charles F. Cummings. Newark Star-Ledger, August 12, 1999, p. 3.

PAF 1960 Convention, Newark, New Jersey
Polish Falcons of America national convention.

Russians

Russian Immigrants Living in Newark During the Great Depression
Three interviews conducted as part of the New Jersey Ethnological Survey.