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Arts & Literature
Nadezhda Mandelstam
Who
Nadezhda Mandelstam · Arts & Literature
What
Author
When
1899, Saratov, Russian Empire — 1980, Moscow, Soviet Union
Where
Russian Empire · Soviet Union
Biography
Nadezhda Mandelstam is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Author
How & why
Nadezhda Mandelstam was a Russian writer and memoirist who, after the arrest and death of her husband, the poet Osip Mandelstam, preserved his banned poems by memorizing them, then bore witness to the Stalinist terror in her memoirs Hope Against Hope and Hope Abandoned. Her books became landmark testimonies of the Soviet century. She was Jewish, from a Jewish family in Saratov.
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