 Soros has wryly described his home as a Jewish antisemitic home.His mother Erzsébet (also known as Elizabeth) came from a family that owned a thriving silk shop.His father Tivadar (also known as Teodoro Ŝvarc) was a lawyer and a well-known Esperanto-speaker who edited the Esperanto literary magazine "Literatura Mondo" and raised his son to speak the language.