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of Jewish. 'Father,'
Dr.L.L. Zamenhof
In Memory of
SGT. MORRIS MILLER
- Son of
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BY EUGENE GROSS
Mr. and Mrs. Abe Miller
19211 Pennington
This is the story of a physi-
cian, humanitarian and linguist
who tried to bridge the gap of
foreign languages among na-
tions.
Dr. Ludwig Lazarus Zamen-
hof, the founder of Esperanto,
was born in Bialystok in 1850,
from a family of language
teachers.
The idea of creating an inter-
national - form of speech was
suggested to Dr. Zamenhof by
the polyglot character of his
native town. To the four dif-
ferent languages spoken in' a
,
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DR. LUDWIG ZAMENHOF
relatively small area, Zamenhof
attributed the constant dissen
Industrial
sions a n d misunderstanding
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which gravely disturbed the
city.
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' But the idea of Esperanto did
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not dawn upon him at once.
First he thought to revive 'He-
brew, but finaly he concluded
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that no individual language
could ever become universal if
it identified itself with any in-
dividual nationality.
In 1878, he started building up
an artificial language on the
basis of .the Romance and, Teu-
tonic roots of modern European
lariguages. In 1887, after many
unsuccessful attempts, he found
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at last a publisher and gave the
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the pen-name Dr. Esperanto,
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'(meaning 'Dr. Hopeful').
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The publication met with im-
mediate success and Esperanto
enjoyed great popularity. In
compiling this universal lan-
guage, Dr. Zamenhof considered
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scattered over the world and
hence unable to undeqtand one
another, obliged to take their
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culture from strange and hos-
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tile sources."
Dr. Zamenhof, who had _al-
ways manifested great interest
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in Jewish affairs, was an ardent
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Zionist. He founded the first
.Zionist Association in Warsaw
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called "Friends of Zion." He
published many philosophical
pamphlets, his most famous bro-
chure glorifying Hillel and mak-
ing one law the center of Jew-
ish teachings a n d survival:
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"LOVE THY NEIGHBOR."
For quite some time, Esper-
anto enjoyed great popularity.
Esperanto Associations mush-
roomed, the main office being
Ready Mix Concrete
in Geneva, Switzerland. Esper-
anto - clubs and associations may
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be found in most large cities,
including Tel Aviv.
Dr. Zamenhof died in Warsaw
in 1917. A monument was
erected to him in Warsaw in
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1928 and a street named after
him. In 1931, his native town
Bialystok put up a statue in a
park. Postage stamps printed in
Esperanto were issued in the
U. S., Canada, Soviet Russia and
many other countries.
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