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People in Spite of History: Stories Found in an Attorney Archive in the Banat Region
People in Spite of History: Stories Found in an Attorney Archive in the Banat Region
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The law firm of three generations of the Várady family has been in operation since 1893 in Becskerek, Serbia. The files, folders, and documents have survived, reflecting marriages, divorces, births, testaments, expulsions, emigrations, incarcerations, and releases of rural and small-town dwellers. Tibor Várady transforms these cases into affecting and vivid vignettes, showing that the legal profession can defend ordinary people against the powers of state and society.
\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 342 pages
\n Publication date: 20 February 2021
\n Publisher: Central European University Press
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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), the 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, were a matter of course.
What is practically unprecedented is that 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.
\n Weight: 666g\n
Dimension: 235 x 162 x 27 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9789633864074\n \n
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