Zamenhof

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

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"Warsaw to Name Street for Zamenhof, Esperanto Founder." August 20, 1930.

Memory as Fluid Process: James Friedman's "12 Nazi Concentration Camps" and Gunter Demnig's Stolpersteine

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".

Language of hope for the New Year; LETTERS

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

In Krleza's Mars, God of Croatia (1922), the Catholic symbols on Croatian military uniforms render Christ "a barbaric fetish that soldiers condemned to death pin onto their filthy shirtfronts," while Zamenhof's After the War (1915) asks diplomats to rule that "every nation equally belongs to all of its sons."

Spomenka Stimec. Croatian War Nocturnal

This old joke plays on the fact that so many of Esperanto's early champions were, like its inventor, Ludwik Leyzer Zamenhof, Eastern European Jews.

Esperanto: The Secret Language of George Soros

Zamenhof planned it as an amalgam of various languages and published it in a book, the Unua Libro, in 1887.

Emojis: The signs of our times

Melvin Jules Bukiet brings us Franz Kafka as an impressionable boy in "The Two Franzes"; Joseph Skibell tracks down Ludwig Zamenhof, inventor of Esperanto, in a central European resort (excerpt from An Incurable Romantic); Dara Horn imagines Marc Chagall as an art teacher near Moscow, goading his students to paint with conviction (excerpt from The World to Come); Joseph Epstein gives us a biting, thinly-disguised portrait of Saul Bellow in "My Brother, Eli"; and Jonathan Rosen gives us the actual Saul Bellow, though we meet him in the afterlife, located just beyond Ellis Island, in "The True World".

The New Diaspora: The Changing Landscape of American Jewish Fiction

Zamenhof's hope was "to create an easy-to-learn, politically

Dynamics of Religiosity in Contemporary Spanish Soccer as portrayed in Jose Luis Sampedro's "That Saintly Day in Madrid"

El parametro FOM ha sido usado por otros autores (Zamenhof, 1982; Gagne et al., 2003) para optimizar la detectabilidad de la senal en imagenes digitales.

Evolution of radiation dose and image quality in a pediatric interventional cardiology system/Dosis de radiacion y calidad de imagen en un equipo de cardiologia intervencionista pediatrico/Dose de radiacao e qualidade de imagem em um equipamento de cardiologia intervencionista pediatrico

Zamenhof, of Bialystok origin, who is consistently and comprehensively commemorated.

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

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