People in Spite of History: Stories Found in an Attorney Archive in the Banat Region (Paperback)

FOREWORD by Richard Buxbaum

What is This Book about?

I. ON THE RELEVANCE OF HISTORY

II. THREE BECSKEREK STORIES?

Featuring Local Jews and Germans in the Leading Roles

An anacrusis

1. The Eckstein Case

2. Socks on the Chandelier, Lives by a Thread

3. The Freund/Barath Document

III. HUNGARIAN STORIES OF BANAT?

People and Formulae

1. An Early Attempt to Topple the Soviet Power in Hungary

2. The Case of Istvan Bakai with Various Armies

3. Is There a Window to Shoot From?

IV. A STORY FROM THE BORDER OF BANAT

From Goose-down Business and Border Trespassing to Concentration Camp

V. DIVORCES, NEAR DIVORCES, AND SHAM DIVORCES

1. A Near Divorce

2. Divorces and Sham Divorces in the Wake of World War Two

3. A Husband Who Very Seldom Visits Pubs and Only in the People's Interest

VI. LEGENDS CHECKED IN LEGAL FILES

1. The Messinger

2. Dueling in Becskerek

VII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ECONOMIC SITUATION

Lawsuits in the Years of the First Five-Year Plan

Some Perspective in Introduction

1. Corn or Corn Flour

2. Even if the Money is Made Available, I Cannot Transfer It

3. Cooperative Denial

4. A Calf-Killing Against the People's Interests

5. Mafia-type Activity in the Years of the First Five-Year Plan

VIII. EXPLOITING FASCISM AND ANTI-FASCISM IN DISPUTES?BETWEEN NEIGHBORS AND CHURCHES

1. Fascism for Household Use in Becskerek?

2. A Cynical Anti-People Smile (From Behind the Window)?