Nostalgia for World Culture: A New History of Esperanto

When the League of Nations first convened in 1920, a universal language was on the agenda. Delegates from a dozen countries, including Brazil, China, Haiti, and India, declared their hope “that children of all nations from now on would know at least two languages, their own mother tongue and an easy means of international communication.” The most likely candidate for such an “international auxiliary language” was Esperanto, launched only 33 years earlier by Polish-Jewish ophthalmologist Ludwik Zamenhof.
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