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Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language, written by Esther Schor

Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language, written by Esther Schor Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language. (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2016), 384 pp., isbn: 0805090797.In her last book, Princeton professor Esther Schor offers a Jewish perspective on the history of the Esperanto movement. By doing so, she contributes to different academic literatures, including Jewish studies, social movements’ sociology, interlinguistics and even political theory. There have been previous attempts to tackle the relationship between Esperanto and the Jewish world, mostly focused on the language creator’s biography, such as Naftali Zvi Maimon’s La kaŝita vivo de Zamenhof (1978), Alexander Korzhenkov’s Homarano (2009), Andreas Künzli’s Esperanto, Hillelismus (Homaranismus) und die “jüdische Frage” (2010), Walter Żelazny’s Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof, Lia pensaro, sekvoj kaj konsideroj (2014), or the fictional A Curable Romantic (2010) by Joseph Skibell. However, Bridge of Words has a much broader scope, as it aims at explaining the history of the whole social movement made up of the language supporters. And Schor carries it out with an extensive framework, both temporal and geographical, from its beginning in 1887 until now, and from Europe where it was first developed to the rest of the world.The relevance of Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof’s (1859–1917) Jewish background in his decision to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png European Journal of Jewish Studies Brill

Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language, written by Esther Schor

Alcalde, Javier
European Journal of Jewish Studies , Volume 11 (2): 4 – Oct 5, 2017
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Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language. (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2016), 384 pp., isbn: 0805090797.In her last book, Princeton professor Esther Schor offers a Jewish perspective on the history of the Esperanto movement. By doing so, she contributes to different academic literatures, including Jewish studies, social movements’ sociology, interlinguistics and even political theory. There have been previous attempts to tackle the relationship between Esperanto and the Jewish world, mostly focused on the language creator’s biography, such as Naftali Zvi Maimon’s La kaŝita vivo de Zamenhof (1978), Alexander Korzhenkov’s Homarano (2009), Andreas Künzli’s Esperanto, Hillelismus (Homaranismus) und die “jüdische Frage” (2010), Walter Żelazny’s Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof, Lia pensaro, sekvoj kaj konsideroj (2014), or the fictional A Curable Romantic (2010) by Joseph Skibell. However, Bridge of Words has a much broader scope, as it aims at explaining the history of the whole social movement made up of the language supporters. And Schor carries it out with an extensive framework, both temporal and geographical, from its beginning in 1887 until now, and from Europe where it was first developed to the rest of the world.The relevance of Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof’s (1859–1917) Jewish background in his decision to

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