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February 11, 2022
The Jewish Roots of the Universal Language
Esperanto’s greatest enthusiasts were Jews, and its greatest enemies anti-Semites.
At the beginning of the last century, the belief that one day a universal language could replace all others, and put an end to national rivalries and animosity, was by no means considered a fringe one. And there was little doubt that if such a scheme were to triumph, that language would be Esperanto—the invention of a Jewish ophthalmologist from Russian Poland named Leyzer (Ludwik) Zamenhof. Unlike many other Jewish champions of universalism, Zamenhof never turned his back on his people and their particularistic concerns. James R. Russell tells his story:
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The Jewish Roots of the Universal Language
Esperanto’s greatest enthusiasts were Jews, and its greatest enemies anti-Semites.