People in Spite of History

Stories Found in an Attorney Archive in the Banat Region

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

Av Tibor Várady, Tibor Várady, Tibor Varady

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-03-31
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt496 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor342
FörlagCentral European University Press
ISBN9789633864593
ÖversättareBoris, János, Good, Owen, Balikó Lengyel, Péter, Boris, Janos, Baliko Lengyel, Peter

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ForewordRichard BuxbaumWhat is This Book about?I. On the Relevance of History: Mária Ormos v. Mathias AlbrechtII. Three Becskerek Stories: Featuring Local Jews and Germans in the Leading RolesAn Anacrusis1. The Eckstein Case2. Socks on the Chandelier, Lives by a Thread3. The Freund/Baráth DocumentIII. Hungarian Stories of Banat: People and Formulae1. An Early Attempt to Topple the Soviet Power in Hungary2. The Case of István Bakai with Various Armies3. Is There a Window to Shoot From?IV. A Story from the Border of Banat: From Goose-down Business and Border Trespassing to Concentration CampV. Divorces, Near Divorces, and Sham Divorces1. A Near Divorce2. Divorces and Sham Divorces in the Wake of World War Two3. A Husband Who Very Seldom Visits Pubs and Only in the People's InterestVI. Legends Checked in Legal Files1. The Messinger2. Dueling in BecskerekVII. The Development of the Economic Situation: Lawsuits in the Years of the First Five-Year PlanSome Perspective in Introduction1. Corn or Corn Flour2. Even if the Money is Made Available, I Cannot Transfer It3. Cooperative Denial4. A Calf-Killing Against the People’s Interests5. Mafia-type Activity in the Years of the First Five-Year PlanVIII. Exploiting Fascism and Anti-Fascism in Disputes between Neighbors and Churches1. Fascism for Household Use in Becskerek 2. A Cynical Anti-People Smile (From Behind the Window)

"Várady earlier published accounts of some of these case files, first in Hungarian in 2013, then in Serbian in 2015, and then in German in 2016. Anglophones are fortunate now to have access. For a social historian, interest lies in what the cases reveal about the life of a multi-ethnic community living through difficult times. A lawyer reading the book will wonder how s/he would have dealt with the situations that confronted the Várady law firm. An introduction by Professor Richard Buxbaum, former editor of the American Journal of Comparative Law, notes the book’s broader importance. It could well serve as a model for writers on law and social history, even those who do not have elders who practiced law through two world wars and one social revolution."