[lg policy] New York lecture series to commemorate Tivadar Soros, Esperanto speaker

[Tonkin, Humphrey]

Esther Schor, author of Bridge of Words: Esperanto and the Dream of a Universal Language (Metropolitan Books, 2016) will be the first speaker in a series of lectures memorializing Tivadar Soros, whose memoir Masquerade, written in Esperanto, 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 Soros, rose to prominence in the financial and humanitarian worlds.

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 34th Street). The lecture will take place in room C198 on Friday, December 16, 2016, at 4:00 p.m.

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."

Future Tivadar Soros Lectures will be given by:
Michael Gordin, Professor of the History of Science at Princeton University (Feb. 10, 2017),, on a connection between Albert Einstein and the international language movement,
Brigid O'Keeffe, Professor of History at Brooklyn College (March 10, 2017) on Esperanto-speaking travelers to the early Soviet Union,
Ulrich Lins, historian and author (date t.b.a.), on the persecution of Esperanto speakers under Hitler and Stalin,
Nico Israel, Professor of English at Hunter College (t.b.a), on James Joyce and Esperanto, and
Ulrich Becker, New York-based publisher of Esperanto books (t.b.a.), on publishing in Esperanto.

More information is available at: www.soroslectures.org<http://www.soroslectures.org>



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