12/15 | Birthday of L. L. Zamenhof,
Today in Yiddishkayt… December 15 Birthday of L. L. Zamenhof, Creator of Esperanto Born Leyzer Zamenhof in Bialystok in 1859, Zamenhof grew up a Yiddish and Russian speaker in a city with a majority of Jews but with a significant population of Poles, Russians, Germans, Belarusians, and Lithuanians—each group speaking its on ethnic language. Zamenhof believed that hostility between groups was often the result of misunderstanding and as a child began to develop the idea that language had the potential to unify as well as divide. He came to believe that a common language, alongside...
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