PositiveThe New York Times Book ReviewSchor’s account of Zamenhof’s dreams and disappointments, including the religious ideas that he — and he alone — saw as essential to Esperanto’s mission, turns into an increasingly anecdotal survey of the language and its culture in the century since Zamenhof’s death ... Schor is less assured as a memoirist than as a scholar...This is, however, a minor quibble. In portraying a language condemned by both Hitler and Stalin, then used by the American military as the language of the pseudo-Communist 'Aggressor' in a lengthy series of Cold War maneuvers, Bridge of Words leaves us in no doubt that whatever Esperanto might be doing, it seems to be doing it right.
