СВАКОДНЕВНИ ЖИВОТ СРБА У ТЕМИШВАРУ ПРЕ И НАКОН ЗАВРШЕТКА ПРВОГ СВЕТСКОГ РАТА
EVERYDAY LIFE OF SERBS IN TIMISOARA BEFORE AND AFTER THE END OF WORLD WAR I

Summary/Abstract: During the work on the doctoral dissertation entitled Serbs in Timisoara and the First Yugoslav State 1918–1921, I collected a vast amount of data about the everyday life of Serbs in Timisoara in the interim period between Serbian and Romanian rule in the aftermath of World War I. The end of World War I saw Serbs in Banat believing that Austro-Hungarian monarchy is not their true homeland, and their resistance to war indicated a wish for change of regime and longing for unification with their brethren outside of the black and yellow monarchy. Timisoara was the center of Serbian Banat at the time, but it was not a Serbian town. In the town of over seventy-four thousand inhabitants, there were only around four and a half thousand Serbs. The remaining population was German, Hungarian, Romanian and Jewish. We traced Timisoara of the time from the writings of Miloš Crnjanski, who had lived in it for years preceding the Great War.Memories of Crnjanski bring us valuable facts about the everyday life, habits and also problems of Serbs in Timisoara before the outbreak of World War I. After the end of the war the presence of Serbian army makes Serbian population in Timisoara first rate citizens and for them undoubtedly begins a different everyday life than the one they led as minority with limited rights in the former Austro-Hungaria. Tracing Serbian press in Banat, and mostly the paper Слога, which came out in Timisoara from December 1918 till July 1919, and whose incomplete archives are kept in the Library of Matica srpska in Novi Sad, bring us a great number of data concerning their everyday life.

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