Budapest, 2020

Editor: Pera Lastić

With the support of the Serbian Institute in Budapest, a book by Milan Micić on the optation of Serbs from Hungary was published under the title “Serbs optants from Hungary in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (1921-1941)”. The subject of the study is monitoring the historical process of the adaptation of the optant population in the colonies of Banat, Bačka, Srem and Baranja to the new living space and their role in the modernization of the new settlements they settled, as well as the construction of new local identities in those settlements.

The study was based on reliable sources and literature. In addition to earlier works by Nikola Gađeša, Gojko Malović and the contemporary press, the author relied on archival sources from Novi Sad, Zrenjanin and Kikinda, as well as on chronicles and other materials from several church municipalities. A special quality of this study is that its author presented not only the general processes of optation, but also dealt with the fate of the family, as a micro-community and the individual as an object of history in these turbulent and traumatic processes of migration. (From the review by Prof. Dr. Đorđe Đurić )

The book was published in Serbian by the Serbian Institute in Budapest.