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Titel:People in spite of history
stories found in an attorney archive in the Banat region
Von: Tibor Várady
Person: Várady, Tibor
1939-
Verfasser
aut
Hauptverfasser: Várady, Tibor 1939- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Ungarisch
Veröffentlicht: Budapest ; New York Central European University Press 2021
Schlagworte:
Abstract:"Three generations of a family of lawyers have run a firm founded in 1893 in the small city of Becskerek (today in Serbian Zrenjanin), first part of the Austro-Hungarian Habsburg monarchy, then Hungary, then Yugoslavia, then for a while under German occupation, then again part of Yugoslavia and finally Serbia. In the Banat district of the province of Vojvodina, the multiplicity of languages and religions and changes of place-names was a matter of course. What is practically unprecedented, all files, folders and documents of the law office have survived. They concern marriages, divorces, births and testaments, as well as expulsions, emigrations, incarcerations and releases of these largely rural and small-town dwellers. Mundane cases reflect times through war, peace, revolution and counter-revolution, through serfdom and freedom, through comfort and poverty. The files also show everyday lives shaped in spite of history. Tibor Várady transforms them into affecting and vivid vignettes, selecting and commenting without sentimentality but with empathy. The law office of the three generations of the Várady family demonstrates that the legal profession permits and in difficult times even requires its members to defend the ordinary men and women against the powers of state and society"--
Beschreibung:VI, 335 Seiten Illustrationen, Faksimiles
ISBN:9789633864074

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