speranto s orn, of Jewish. 'Father,' Dr.L.L. Zamenhof In Memory of SGT. MORRIS MILLER - Son of . Standard Feature 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 , Sincere Holiday Greetingi-to All Our Friends and Patrons THE GREENBERG AGENCY UN 4-2884 17634 Jas. Couzens .0.MWOOIMHIIMMOWWWWWWIWO.NWW•WW(1 ■ 0•47 • .00 0.111WINNIWIYW!.1 1.0wor In Loving Mentory of Our Son LT. ROY F. GREEN Who died in the service of his country Nov. 12, 1942 A Gallant Soldier, American and .True and Devoted Jew Mr. and Mrs. Max Greenberg and F a mily Season's Most Cordial Greetings JOHN F. HAMILTON 15825 Harper auwwwwwww■.owwwwwww.n ■w wwwwwwiwwwwwwwiwwww:Wo Season's Best Wishes SLAVIK BUILDERS "Remember the Name for Your Real- Estate Aim" 20063 JAMES COUZENS wwwwwwwww■w wwom, DR. LUDWIG ZAMENHOF relatively small area, Zamenhof attributed the constant dissen Industrial sions a n d misunderstanding Commercial which gravely disturbed the city. 18956 Wyoming ' But the idea of Esperanto did Diamond 1-1020 GENERAL CONTRACTORS, INC. not dawn upon him at once. First he thought to revive 'He- brew, but finaly he concluded ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ 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 900 E. Ferry TR. 5-9610 at last a publisher and gave the •■ ■ ■ world his first brochure under the pen-name Dr. Esperanto, W -4 ■ 17.< '(meaning 'Dr. Hopeful'). Passover Greetings The publication met with im- mediate success and Esperanto enjoyed great popularity. In compiling this universal lan- guage, Dr. Zamenhof considered Sole, Rental and Service of Construction Equipment A primarily the urgent needs of Industrial his Yiddish - speaking co - reli- Detroit office: 22150 W. 8 Mile -- KEnwood 575990 gionists whom he pityingly de- Kalamazoo office: 2203 E. Michigan—Flreside 4-6159 j scribed as "speechless and there- fore without hope of culture, tR.K k7: scattered over the world and hence unable to undeqtand one another, obliged to take their a culture from strange and hos- Holiday Best Wishes tile sources." Dr. Zamenhof, who had _al- ways manifested great interest Fl in Jewish affairs, was an ardent Manufacturers of All Twisted Inlustrial Brushes Zionist. He founded the first .Zionist Association in Warsaw 1745 ABBOTT WO. 3-9187 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: Passover Greetings to Our Friends and Patrons "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 2531 CONNER 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 Greetings of the Season 1928 and a street named after him. In 1931, his native town Bialystok put up a statue in a park. 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