Esther Schor, a professor of English, joined Princeton in 1986. Her scholarship focuses on two areas — British Romanticism, and religion and literature. She has also taught several courses in the ...

BRIDGE OF WORDS: ESPERANTO AND THE DREAM OF A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE By Esther Schor Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, $32, 364 pages illustrated Princeton English professor Esther Schor is the author of a ...

The international language Esperanto is an auxiliary language that was conceived and developed for international communication. Of around 1,000 known plans for auxiliary languages, Esperanto alone has ...

It never caught on as an international language, but 2 million people around the world still speak it and are urging others to join them. Esperanto has languished in relative obscurity since a Polish ...

Did Esperanto inspire the lyrics of one of David Bowie’s most famous songs? And what could he have gathered from the Polish dialect of Beskidy mountain herders on that Śląsk LP? In April 1976, ...

On a recent Friday evening, the Esperanto Society of New York convened in a rowhouse on Manhattan’s East 35th Street. The upper floors of the building seemed to house a bilingual preschool, going by ...

As the community of Esperanto speakers prepares to mark the 150th anniversary of its author's birth, the BBC's Dina Newman looks at the continuing appeal of this language designed to foster harmony ...

Esperanto, the most successful constructed language in world history, was conceived and developed in Poland. But is there any Polish in Esperanto? The idea of Esperanto was first conceived by Ludwik ...