Dangerous Language — Esperanto under Hitler and Stalin
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-71505-3 (ISBN)
Ulrich Lins received his doctorate at the University of Cologne, Germany, with a dissertation on Japanese nationalism (published in 1976). For thirty years he worked for DAAD, the German Academic Exchange Service in its headquarters in Bonn, and served two tours of duty as head of its office in Tokyo. He has edited numbers of books in German and Japanese on German-Japanese relations and on Germany following reunion. The present volume, written originally in Esperanto, has appeared in German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Lithuanian translations. Humphrey Tonkin is President Emeritus of the University of Hartford, USA, where he served as University Professor of Humanities. He studied English and comparative literature at Cambridge and Harvard (Ph.D. 1966) and has written widely on literary topics and on international education and language policy. He has published numbers of translations from English to Esperanto and from Esperanto to English.
PART I: A SUSPICIOUS NEW LANGUAGE.- Chapter 1: The Emergence of Esperanto.- Chapter 2: War and its Aftermath.- PART II: ‘LANGUAGE OF JEWS AND COMMUNISTS’.- Chapter 3: The Rise of a New Enemy.- Chapter 4: ‘An Ally of World Jewry’.- PART III: ‘LANGUAGE OF PETTY BOURGEOIS AND COSMOPOLITANS’.- Chapter 5: Finding a Place for Esperanto in the Soviet Union.- Chapter 6: Schism and Collapse.- Chapter 7: Socialism and International Language.
Erscheinungsdatum | 19.06.2020 |
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Übersetzer | Humphrey Tonkin |
Zusatzinfo | 1 Illustrations, color; 8 Illustrations, black and white; XVIII, 299 p. 9 illus., 1 illus. in color. |
Verlagsort | Basingstoke |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft |
Schlagworte | Antisemitism • Communication • Europe • History • language • linguistic persecution • Linguistics • Ludwik Zamenhof • modern history • Political Science • Revolution • Sociolinguistics |
ISBN-10 | 1-349-71505-0 / 1349715050 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-349-71505-3 / 9781349715053 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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