[Membroj] Haskalah

[Ralph Dumain]

A literature search for references linking Zamenhof and Esperanto to 
the Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) in Eastern Europe would be most 
interesting. I can't remember if I ever attempted this, since I do so 
much research and forget what I've done. I don't have time to hit the 
library, but I did check out the subject online.

The Jewish Virtual Library did not have anything substantial. There 
is, however, a mention of Zamenhof in the Okopower St. Jewish 
Cemetery of Warsaw:

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Warsaw.html

And apparently one or more poems by Shaul Tchernichovsky (1875-1943) 
exists in Esperanto translation (but not to be found on Don Harlow's site):

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/tchernichovsky.html


The Nextbook site (there are many great Nextbook talks in DC, at the 
DC Jewish Community Center and elsewhere) has an article on Zamenhof, 
mentioning the Haskalah:

08.23.07
Dr. One-Who-Hopes
The ophthalmologist who invented Esperanto
by Suzanne Snider
http://www.nextbook.org/cultural/feature.html?id=678&page=1

Note this page on the Zamosc Ghetto:

http://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/zamosc%20ghetto.html

"Zamosc was a centre of the Jewish Enlightenment movement (Haskalah). 
Famous inhabitants: The writer I L Peretz, Ludwik Zamenhoff, the 
founder of Esperanto, and Rosa Luxemburg, the revolutionary socialist."

Bialystok has a rich history as well. See:

The Bialystoker Memorial Book
http://www.zchor.org/bialystok/yizkor1.htm

. . . and particularly:

Dr. M. Sudarski, 
<http://www.zchor.org/bialystok/yizkor2.htm#zamenhoff>Dr. Ludwig 
Zamenhof<http://www.zchor.org/bialystok/yizkor2.htm#zamenhoff> and Esperanto

Of parenthetical interest is:


Sochaczew, Poland (Pages 647- 669): Between The Two World Wars by M 
Frydman Translated by Jerrold Landau
http://www.jewishgen.org/yizkor/Sochaczew/so647.html

. . . which mentions both the Haskalah and an Esperanto group.

Thanks to Project Gutenberg, you can read or download

The Haskalah Movement in Russia by Jacob S. Raisin
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15921

. . . in which Zamenhof is mentioned in a footnote.




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