Book review: The Petschek Palace in Prague
By Norman Eisen | Published Mar 1, 2019
When President Obama appointed the Jewish Norman Eisen as America’s 2011 ambassador to the Czech Republic, his mother Frieda, was seriously disturbed. She feared Czech approach towards Jews was little changed since her youth. That, despite the 1989 Velvet Revolution which ended years of brutal Communist domination after the horror years of Germany’s 1939-1944 occupation.