UNESCO’s Jerusalem Resolution Insults Both Judaism and Christianity
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October 31, 2016
Esperanto and the Jewish Brand of Universalism that Produced It
Ludwik Zamenhof’s world language.
In the 1880s, Ludwik Leyzer Zamenhof, a Jewish ophthalmologist in Bialystok who had become disillusioned with Zionism, concluded that the problems of anti-Semitism, prejudice, racism, and war could all be solved were mankind to adopt a universal language. He proceeded to create Esperanto, a simplified tongue based primarily on the Romance languages but with heavy doses of German, Slavic, and even Yiddish. Soon there were publications and annual conferences. Both still exist today, though the movement never achieved the success Zamenhoff hoped for—as Esther Schor recounts in Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language. David Mikics writes in his review:
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Esperanto and the Jewish Brand of Universalism that Produced It
Ludwik Zamenhof’s world language.