The idea of Esperanto was first conceived by Ludwik Zamenhof, then a gymnasium student, around 1879 in Białystok, which at the time was a provincial town in the western part of the Russian Empire ...

Leyzer (Eliezer) Levi Zamenhof was born in 1859 into a Jewish family in Belostok, a provincial city in the Russian Empire, now Bialystok, Poland. Roughly two-thirds of its inhabitants were Jews ...

Esperanto wasn’t the first invented language of its time. A German Catholic priest tried to make “Volapük” catch on seven years earlier, but it died out because, “he didn’t want anyone ...

Esperanto was designed in the late 1800s by Polish ophthalmologist Ludwik Lejzer Zamenhof. ... which was then part of the Russian Empire. Although most of us have never heard of the language, ...

Esperanto’s creator, Ludovik Lazarus Zamenhof (1859-1917), a short, sparkly-eyed, chain-smoking ophthalmologist, was a Jew, and, as he wrote to a friend, this made all the difference: “My ...

Always keen to garner recognition from the outside world, the PLO issued a leaflet in Esperanto in the 1970s. Before the first Arab-Israeli war of 1948-49, Esperanto speakers from Egypt and Palestine ...

Esperanto is much easier to lean than other languages, especially English, with only 16 rules of grammar that really do cover everything. Anyone can learn the basics in a couple weeks.

Hanoi, Vietnam – A few weeks ago, on a sultry day in the western reaches of Hanoi, I crocodiled with an Australian. I also alligatored with a Nepalese and, with a charming young woman from ...