Zamenhof

Lazarus Ludwig . 1859--1917, Polish oculist; invented Esperanto

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The German linguist Jacob Grimm, however, was more far-sighted than Zamenhof, the inventor of Esperanto, when he stated in the mid-19th century that English would become the world's language.

Language must be useful to survive

The pen name Zamenhof chose was Doktoro Esperanto - and people who started learning the new language simply called it by the "surname" of its author, Esperanto, which translates as "one who hopes.

In praise of Esperanto; Letters

There was already a marble bust of Zamenhof at the previously nameless square so it wasn't a big leap for Herzberg, which calls itself "Esperanto city," to name it after him.

With 2mn speakers, Esperanto language is still going strong

Rachel Trousdale argues that Mendel's residence in the Hotel Zamenhof "suggests his quest for a transnational solution to the problem of Jewish identity," a means of "transnational synthesis" rooted in an exilic conception of Jewish placehood (111).

A comedy of Eruvs: (re)locating Jewish identity in Michael Chabon's The Yiddish Policemen's Union and Howard Jacobson's J

What flows through them, the communications themselves, still face the problem Dr Zamenhof faced - the language barrier.

Emojis: The signs of our times

Zamenhof does not go with the promotion of his ideas or even Esperanto language, which for most Bialystokers remains unknown.

Processes of collective memory in culturally heterogeneous cities on the examples of Bialystok and Lublin/Kolektyvines atminties procesai kulturiskai heterogeniskuose miestuose: balstoges ir liublino atvejai

schoolteacher, Zamenhof spoke Russian in the home and Polish in the

Constructed languages and copyright: a brief history and proposal for divorce

Some such creations ring familiar: Esperanto, the idealistic conceit of 19th-century Polish polyglot Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof, or Simlish, the fictional tongue of the popular life-simulation computer game.

Language and its discontents

Kuehn-Malvezzi chose the international language Esperanto, invented by Polish Doctor Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof in 1887, as they found interesting similarities between it and modern art and how it is perceived by the general public.

"Komuna Fundamento": An Art Book and an Architecture Exhibition with a Name in Esperanto in the Venice Biennale

Ludwik Lazar Zamenhof, which he called Esperanto (hopeful), to express hope for universality among nations, are all Jews; when they relax, they choose to speak their own living, international Jewish language, Yiddish.

The envy of Yiddish: Cynthia Ozick as translator

This artwork features prominent Jews who lived in Muranow before the war, like Ludwik Zamenhof, the creator of Esperanto.

Educators revive history of Poland's Jews

Zamenhof in the nineteenth century, has a vocabulary based on a variety of European languages, so it is more "neutral" than a language based solely on English.

The Uncertain Future of the English Language: Parlez vous "Globish"? If English is your only language, you're probably doing okay now. But you might not be prepared for the future, suggest the authors of Globish and The Last Lingua Franca

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