Mitteleuropa
Americannoun
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Today, the phrase suggests Mitteleuropa, the borderless, multilingual cosmopolitanism of pre-1914 Europe; the world of yesterday, as the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig called it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 26, 2025
Before long, Schine’s story opened out onto an often-overlooked history: the World War II era when refugee artists including Thomas Mann and Arnold Schoenberg made Los Angeles a kind of Mitteleuropa in exile.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
“I really don’t want to get into the sepia saga business,” he added, “writing up some elegiac Mitteleuropa narrative of loss.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2022
Gabor was a personal experiment in becoming an American princess, combining Mitteleuropa breeding with Hollywood glamour in a way that enchanted gossip columnists and TV producers.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 19, 2016
That this was to be Bulgaria's future rôle in Mitteleuropa, Germany's new attitude made increasingly plain.
From World's War Events Volume 3 Beginning with the departure of the first American destroyers for service abroad in April, 1917, and closing with the treaties of peace in 1919. by Allen L. (Allen Leon) Churchill
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