Like Father, Like Daughter “The Art of Standing Still”, April 5, 1939, Pritomnost by Milena Jesenska (About the Book “The Journalism of Milena Jesenska” , a Critical Voice in Interwar Central Europe, edited by Kathleen Hayes, Berghahn Books, New York-Oxford, 2003)
Czech journalist Milena Jesenska (1896-1944) wrote in her article for the “Pritomnost” about “The Art of Standing Still”: “So when I was a young girl, I lived on the corner of the 28th of October Street and Na perikope Street, and Wenceslav Square lay right under our windows. The tension between the Czechs and the…