L.L. Zamenhof and the Hope of Esperanto
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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4.2 • 23.6K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2021
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Esperanto was developed by a Jewish man living in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It’s a story linked to both persecution and profound hope. Zamenhof hoped to bring the world together through a shared second language.
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| 1:50.1 | Way back in 2018, I was having a conversation with a friend and the constructed language |
| 1:55.5 | Esperanto came up in that conversation. And I had that little thought, |
| 2:00.5 | hey, maybe we should do a podcast on that sometime. And now, more than a year later, |
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