Zeltnergasse
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Old German language street name in Prague, Czech Republic home to Franz Kafka.
In Jorge Luis Borges's story "The Secret Miracle" the main character, Jaromir Hladik resides on this street in March, 1939.
Daniel Balderston has eruditely noted that the name of the street is in German (as is that of the river Moldau, Vltava in Czech), which on the day of the German invasion would have been in Czech, and represents a purposeful effort on the part of the narrator to tell the story from the perspective of a “non-Jewish German speakers that might have sympathized” with the Nazis meddling in Europe’s Teutonic heartland (Out of Context 59).
The street is now known as Celetná Street. [1]

