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9789633864074: People in Spite of History
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ISBN 10 : 9633864070 ISBN 13 : 9789633864074
Editeur : Central European University Press, 2021

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l?auteur

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.

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Éditeur
Central European University Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
9633864070
ISBN 13 
9789633864074
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
341
Éditeur
Várady Tibor
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9789633864593: People in Spite of History: Stories Found in an Attorney Archive in the Banat Region

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ISBN 10 :  9633864593 ISBN 13 :  9789633864593
Editeur : Central European University Press, 2022
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