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Doctor Esperanto and the language of hope
\"Life was harsh in the town of Bialystok, particularly for a Jewish boy like Leyzer Zamenhof. But Leyzer thought he knew the reason for the anger and distrust. With every group speaking a different language, how could people understand each other? Without understanding, how could there be peace? Zamenhof had an idea: a \"universal\" second language everyone could speak. But a language that would be easy to learn was not easy to invent, especially when even his own father stood between him and his dream. Yet when at last in 1887 \"Doctor Esperanto\" sent his words into the world, a boy's idea became a community that spread across the globe.\"--Book jacket.
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Bridge of words : Esperanto and the dream of a universal language
\"A rich and passionate biography of a language and the dream of world harmony it sought to realize. In 1887, Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof, a Polish Jew, had the idea of putting an end to tribalism by creating a universal language, one that would be equally accessible to everyone in the world. The result was Esperanto, a utopian scheme full of the brilliance, craziness, and grandiosity that characterize all such messianic visions.In this first full history of a constructed language, poet and scholar Esther Schor traces the life of Esperanto. She follows the path from its invention by Zamenhof, through its turn-of-the-century golden age as the great hope of embattled cosmopolites, to its suppression by nationalist regimes and its resurgence as a bridge across the Cold War. She plunges into the mechanics of creating a language from scratch, one based on rational systems that would be easy to learn, politically neutral, and allow all to speak to all. Rooted in the dark soil of Europe, Esperanto failed to stem the continent's bloodletting, of course, but as Schor shows, the ideal continues draw a following of modern universalists dedicated to its visionary goal. Rich and subtle, Bridge of Words is at once a biography of an idea, an original history of Europe, and a spirited exploration of the only language charged with saving the world from itself\"-- Provided by publisher.
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El esperanto en los medios periodísticos: una aproximación a la historia esperantista de España
El presente estudio aborda la repercusión del movimiento esperantista en los medios de comunicación en España, tanto en la prensa de la época como en las publicaciones editadas en esperanto por las diversas asociaciones. Se trata de un recorrido que comienza en 1898, desde la aparición de la primera crónica periodística a favor del esperanto realizada por Pi y Margall en El Nuevo Régimen, hasta el término de la Guerra civil en 1939. De esta forma, se detalla la llegada de la propuesta lingüística del polaco L.L Zamenhof al territorio español atendiendo a la emergencia de asociaciones que se ocuparon de la divulgación del idioma a través de sus publicaciones en cada periodo.El desarrollo del esperantismo acogerá el primer congreso universal en España durante el reinado de Alfonso XIII. Tras el duro golpe que supuso la Gran Guerra, de 1923 a 1931 tuvo lugar la dictadura de Primo de Rivera que dejó atrás un periodo dorado del movimiento obrero. Con la llegada de la Segunda República en 1931 tuvo lugar una etapa de florecimiento donde republicanos, masones, católicos y militares, impulsaron la propagación del idioma. Hasta entonces, España estuvo dividida en grupos neutrales y obreros, que a su vez estuvieron fragmentados en anarquistas, socialistas o comunistas. Del mismo modo, se creó un movimiento catalán muy activo y presente que cesaría con el triunfo del bando franquista en la guerra civil. El estudio profundiza en publicaciones esperantistas que conforman una realidad escasamente atendida en el mundo académico.
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Curable romantic
When Dr. Jakob Josef Sammelsohn arrives in Vienna in the 1890s, he happens to meet Sigmund Freud, has a series of affairs, is haunted by the ghost of his abandoned wife, and eventually ends up in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1940. His Candide-like adventures illuminate a Europe moving between a new scientific age and age-old superstitions and beliefs.
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The Concept and Functions of a Universal Language of Law
The subject of the article is the concept of a universal language and a reflection on its importance for law. The starting point is a presentation of the history of the concept of a common language for all mankind, a concept that has always accompanied man – it is present in the Bible, in the ancient writings of Near Eastern peoples, it was alive in the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance, and it experienced its particular heyday – among other reasons because of the gradual abandonment of Latin as the language of science – in the seventeenth century, an age that was reformist by definition. Since its inception, the concept of a universal language has been inextricably linked with the idea of world peace and universal happiness for all people. It is significant that in most universal language designs, regardless of the era, there were, to a greater or lesser extent, references to the utility of such languages for law. The author, tracing the development of the concept of a universal language, focuses on its fullest contemporary development: Esperanto. Esperanto, like previous universal language designs, places particular emphasis on ideas linked to the concept of a universal language, especially the idea of peaceful coexistence and understanding between peoples. In this context, it is reasonable to ask what role Esperanto can play in the development of certain branches of law, especially international law. Given the position of English as the language of legal acts of international importance, the answer to this question is currently not clear.
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THE FUNCTIONAL AND ARTISTIC DIMENSIONS OF CONSTRUCTED LANGUAGES: FROM ESPERANTO TO NA'VI, KLINGON, AND TOLKIEN'S ELVISH LANGUAGES 1
[...]reliable statistics on the actual number of speakers are unavailable. According to Wood [1], 'the language community of Esperanto is larger than that of many ethnic languages (according to Culbert, it numbers about two million throughout the world). According to Tonkin [5], 'Zamenhof introduced Esperanto in the late nineteenth century as a means to promote understanding where understanding was lacking; his broader target was the world, his immediate concern the scourge of Russian anti-Semitism. [...]the end of World War II, and even beyond, it was possible to argue that Esperanto could bridge stubborn language difficulties. According to Koutny [6], 'as far as their sources and structures are concerned a posteriori languages they can be linked to a particular language family.
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