The Convert: Lidia Zamenhof and the Bahai Faith

This is a translation of a talk given by Lidia Zamenhof during the 23rd International Esperanto Conference held in Cracow, Poland in August 1931. You will find it at David Pardue's site with a number of other useful Web resources, all very helpful for anyone wishing to find out more about Bahai and its connection with Esperanto. You will also find some stylish translations which Lidia made from the Polish writer Henryk Sienkiewicz. Here is a partial list of the material which David Pardue has put together..

Articles about the Bahai faith in English and Esperanto.

"La Bahaa Filozofio"
An article written by Lidia Zamenhof, taken from The Bahá'í World

"Bahaismo, la religio de paco"
Another article written by Lidia Zamenhof, first published in 1931.

"Bahá'u'lláh kaj la Nova Epoko"
A lecture given by Roan Orloff Stone in 1974.

"Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era"
English translation of the item above

The Bahá'í Faith and Universal Language
An article written by Arild J. Pettersen, which appeared in Language in Religion. Ed. Humphrey Tonkin and Allison Armstrong Keef. Papers of the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems 1: Lanham, Md., Univ. Press of America, 1989.

Translations from literary works made by Lidia Zamenhof

Lux in tenebris lucet
La maljuna servisto
Dioklo
Estu benita!

Four stories by Henryk Sienkiewicz (1846-1916), a famous Polish writer who received the Nobel prize for literature in 1905.

All of the above items can be located by following this link:

http://lark.cc.ukans.edu/~dpardue/

Other useful resources can be located at these links:

1. The Bahai Faith and Esperanto
http://www.bahai.de/bahaaeligo/englisch....

2. Search results
http://web.nmsu.edu/~mktweb/search_esper...

3. The Bahai Faith: Basic facts
http://www.warble.com/Bahai/BasicFacts/b...

4. Bahaanoj kaj Esperantistoj
http://www.bahai.de/bahaaeligo/be.html

In fact, as you will see if you follow these links, there is so much material available in both English and Esperanto on the subject of Bahai that I can now leave this aspect of Lidia's life and move on to other things. So I propose to leave Lidia altogether for now, knowing that her life story is still incomplete, and investigate instead another little-known religion which also has very strong links with Esperanto. In fact, I think that the Esperanto connection may even be stronger than that of Bahai! Please join me next time to learn a little about Oomoto and judge for yourself.

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