Israel - Medal in honor of the creator of the Esperanto language, Eliezer Ludwig Zamenhof - silver, 127.2 grams, 72 mm

Israel - Medal in honor of the creator of the Esperanto language, Eliezer Ludwig Zamenhof - silver, 127.2 grams, 72 mm Large and unconventional medal, issued in 1917. Hefner PEM-6 Dr. Eliezer Ludwig Zamenhof (Polish: Ludwik Łazarz Zamenhof, Yiddish: Lazer Levi Zamenhof, in Esperanto: Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhofo "Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhofo" December 15, 1859 - April 14, 1917) was a Polish-Jewish physician. Bringing hearts together between people who speak different languages, using a neutral language.Esperanto has become the most spoken planned language in the world. Zamenhof was an ophthalmologist and amateur linguist. The languages ​​spoken in his home were Yiddish and Russian, but he also spoke Polish and German fluently. He later studied French, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, English and the planned language Wolafik. He was also interested in Italian, Spanish and Lithuanian.