One on One Author Peter Demetz: you could be of any nationality and still feel Czechoslovak
Pre-war Prague with its multi-national and multi-cultural environment has inspired many scholars and writers who explore the life of Czechs, Germans and Jews in the city of a hundred spires before it was swept away by the two totalitarian regimes of the 20th century. Our guest in this edition of One on One is Professor Peter Demetz, the author of Prague in Black and Gold, Stage: Prague, and other works. Mr Demetz was born in Prague in the 1920s to a German and Jewish family but left the country after the communist takeover of 1948 and later became a professor of German studies and literature at Yale University in the United States. Although Peter Demetz was born in Prague, he actually grew up in Brno, so I first asked him about the differences between the two cities.
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