Sunday, March 18, 2012

Vegetarianism, Israel and Esperanto


Beyond the fact that an Israeli, Natan Ben Havkin founded and named the organization TEVA (which means Nature in Hebrew and All-Esperanto-Vegetarian-Association in Esperanto), I visited a vegetarian village in Israel where there were always a few Esperantists. I lived and worked a few weeks there in the early 1970s. The village is called AMIRIM and isn't far from the town Sfad/Tsfat in Hebrew. One quite politically radical Esperantist (He was writing constantly to newspapers about several subjects) was the Esperantist, Shalom Zamir. There was a woman who learned Esperanto from the daughter of the founder of Esperanto, Lidia Zamenhof, in Poland---her last name was--I think--Nowakowsky. In the year 2000 I returned to Israel and after the World Esperanto Conference in Tel Aviv, was invited to Amirim by recent emigrants from Bulgaria, whose names are failing me. I rented a car for three days (the only time I ever used a car in Israel.) I recently discovered from the wikipedia article that the village was founded by Seventh Day Adventists or a division of them. (Link below)


Flanke de la fakto ke Israelano, Natan Ben Havkin, nomis nian organizon TEVA (Naturo en la HEBREA) mi vizitis vegetaran vilagxon en Israelo kie cxiam estis kelkaj Esperantistoj. Mi logxis/laboris tie dum kelkaj semajnoj en la fruaj 70aj jaroj. La vilagxo nomigxas AMIRIM kaj estas ne tre for de urbeto Sfad/Tsfat (Hebree). Iom politike radikala estis Esperantisto, Shalom Zamir. Estis virino en la 80aj jaroj, Nowakowsky mi opiniis kiu lernis Esperanton de Lidia Zamenhof. En 2000 post UK-Tel Avivo mi ricevis inviton de juna bulgara familio kiu eklogxis tie....kaj mi vizitis ilin sed mia memoro ne plu funkcias tiom bone. Nur per la reto mi lernas ke inter la vegetaremaj fondintoj estas homoj el la Sepa Tago Adventistoj. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amirim

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