Czernowitzers...
Athene Palace refers to the Athénée Palace Hotel, Bucharest's swankiest and legendary hotel, shorn of one 'e' and of accents for no other reason than simplicity and readability by R. G. Waldeck, the author of our December 2018 Book of the Month:
http://czernowitzbook.blogspot.com/2018/12/athene-palace.html
It's not that Rosie Goldschmidt Waldeck's (1898-1982) insights on Bukovina were extremely deep, but from the publisher UCP we learn: "A German Jew and a reporter for Newsweek, Waldeck became a close observer of the Nazi invasion. As King Carol first tried to placate the Nazis, then abdicated the throne in favor of his son, Waldeck was dressing for dinners with diplomats and cozying up to Nazi officers [not uncontroversial] to get insight and information. From her unique vantage, she watched as Romania, a country with a pro-totalitarian elite and a deep strain of anti-Semitism, suffered civil unrest, a German invasion, and an earthquake, before turning against the Nazis." This is the foreword by Robert D. Kaplan to ATHENE PALACE: Hitler’s “New Order” Comes to Rumania by R. G. Waldeck, published by University of Chicago Press:
https://tinhouse.com/an-introduction-to-r-g-waldecks-athene-place/
The German translation of the novel "Athénée Palace: Hitlers 'Neue Ordnung' kommt nach Rumänien" just appeared recently, reviewed by the famous Neue Zürcher Zeitung from Switzerland:
https://goo.gl/8MwW9W
Waldeck’s impressions were considered to be pertinent enough to be published on the first page of the section dedicated to Romania in Encyclopedia Britannica [again not uncontroversial]: "Two thousand years of severe foreign masters, barbarian invasions, rapacious conquers, wicked princes, cholera, and earthquakes have given Rumanians a superb sense of the temporary and transitory quality of everything. Experience in survival has taught them that each fall may result in unforeseen opportunities and that somehow they always get on their feet again."
Enjoy the reading and a Happy New Year 2019!
Edgar Hauster
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