Eliezer Ben-Yehuda and L.L.Zamenhof

January 7th, 1858: birthday of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda.  Authors, Norman Berdichevsky and Ilan Stavans have seperately made some comparisons between the reviver of Modern Hebrew and L.L. Zamenhof, founder of the Esperanto movement, in the links below.

Naskightago de Eliezer Ben-Yehuda (1858), la patro de la moderna hebrea lingvo, samtempulo de Ludoviko Zamenhof. Ili loghis nemalproksime unu de la alia en Rusio.

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  Neil Blonstein Norman Berdichevsky (kiun mi ekkonis dum samtempa logxado en Israelo) foje skribas komparojn inter Ben-yehuda kaj Zamenhof. Li skribis la jenon dum ni ambau' trovigxis en Israelo (Dua artikolo pri mia filino kaj Esperanto ne estas retigata.) --Li logxas en Florido kie li instruas...kaj lastatempe aligxis al Facebook: http://www.autodidactproject.org/esperanto2010/zamenhof-berdichevsky.html
  

  Ralph Dumain: "The Autodidact Project": Norman Berdichevsky: "Zamenhof and Esperanto"

  www.autodidactproject.org
  

  Essay summarizing Zamenhof's life & ideas in relation to Esperanto, Hebrew, Yiddish , & the fate of Eastern European Jews.

  
  
•  http://www.english.illinois.edu/-people-/faculty/debaron/401/401%20files/esperanto.html
  
  A longer review of Ilan Stavans book, Resurrecting Hebrew, mentions Zamenhof and Esperanto: http://www.jochnowitz.net/Essays/ResurrectingHebrew.html