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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Esther Schor, author of
<i>Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language </i>(Metropolitan Books, 2016) will be the first speaker in a series of lectures memorializing Tivadar Soros, whose memoir
<i>Masquerade, </i>written in Esperanto,<i> </i>recorded his successful efforts to keep his family alive and intact in Hungary during the Nazis’ round-up and murder of thousands of Jews. The family ended up coming to the United States, where his son, George
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">The lecture, made possible by a grant from the Esperantic Studies Foundation, is sponsored by the Linguistics Program at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 365
Fifth Avenue (at 34<sup>th</sup> Street). The lecture will take place in room C198 on Friday, December 16, 2016, at 4:00 p.m.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Professor of English at Princeton University, Esther Schor has studied the origins and development of the International Language Esperanto and its position in the modern world. In many
respects her new book is a reaffirmation of the importance of Esperanto as a social movement in today’s world. According to a review in the New York Times, it “leaves us in no doubt that whatever Esperanto might be doing, it seems to be doing it right.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Future Tivadar Soros Lectures will be given by:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Michael Gordin</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">, Professor of the History of Science at Princeton University (Feb. 10, 2017),, on a connection between
Albert Einstein and the international language movement, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Brigid O’Keeffe</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">, Professor of History at Brooklyn College (March 10, 2017) on Esperanto-speaking travelers to the
early Soviet Union, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Ulrich Lins</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">, historian and author (date t.b.a.), on the persecution of Esperanto speakers under Hitler and Stalin,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Nico Israel</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">, Professor of English at Hunter College (t.b.a), on James Joyce and Esperanto, and
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">Ulrich Becker</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">, New York-based publisher of Esperanto books (t.b.a.), on publishing in Esperanto.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">More information is available at:
</span><a href="http://www.soroslectures.org"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">www.soroslectures.org</span></a><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif">
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