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• Title:
  Próba rozwiązania kwestii żydowskiej przez Ludwika Zamenhofa
• Creator:
  Żelazny, Walter
• Description:
  Ludwik Zamenhof’s Attempt at Solving the Jewish QuestionZamenhof is well known as the creator of the international language Esperanto. The origins of Espe­ranto stem from his attempts to convince Jews that they could form a nation, even without territory, on the basis of a language, namely Esperanto; otherwise, they would always be an ethnic group only. Zamenhof presented his doctrine in 1901 in a booklet entitled Hillel­ism, published in Russian. He decided to address the Jewish intelligentsia in Russia, where the Jewish issue was the most pronounced and tense. But the intelligentsia was unable to work out a national programme. Already at the beginning of the 20th century, it was split into many groups with a variety of standpoints, and each group perceived the Jewish nation in a different way and, most importantly, located its future homeland in a different part of the globe. Esperanto itself, however, became increasingly more popular at that time. Its adherents strongly criticised a broad spectrum of different, mildly utopian doctrines on how to solve the Jewish issue. Zamenhof re-edited his Hillelism in such a way that his efforts to solve the Jewish issue began to be absorbed into broad humanism. Later, he gradually promoted Homaranism, being at a distance from Judaism itself. Zamenhof finally believed that he left Espe­ranto not to a “specific ethnic group” but to all humanity.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Copyright (c) 2015 Walter Żelazny;
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/pl
• Date:
  2022.02.18
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Język:
  English;
  eng
• Źródło:
  Sprawy Narodowościowe; No 38 (2011); 101-114;
  2392-2427
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Wydawca:
  Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Relacja: https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/sn/article/view/sn.2011.008/1231
• Temat i słowa kluczowe:
  Ludwik Zamenhof; Esperanto; the Jewish issue; Homaranism
• Identyfikator: https://ispan.waw.pl/journals/index.php/sn/article/view/sn.2011.008 ;
  10.11649/sn.2011.008
• Dostawca danych:
  ISS PAS Journals
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  text