1st Edition
People in Spite of History Stories Found in an Attorney Archive in the Banat Region
Edited By Tibor Várady
Copyright 2021
342 Pages
by
Central European University Press
342 Pages
by
Central European University Press
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... Read more
Foreword by Richard Buxbaum, What is This Book About?, I. ON THE RELEVANCE OF HISTORY, II. THREE BECSKEREK STORIES, III. HUNGARIAN STORIES OF BANAT, IV. A STORY FROM THE BORDER OF BANAT, V. DIVORCES, NEAR DIVORCES, AND SHAM DIVORCES, VI. LEGENDS CHECKED IN LEGAL FILES, VII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECONOMIC SITUATION, VIII. EXPLOITING FASCISM AND ANTI-FASCISM IN DISPUTES
Biography
Tibor Várady is professor emeritus at Emory University, and professor emeritus at the Central European University. Parallel with his scholarly work, he published prose works and essays in several languages including fourteen literary books.
