Nadezhda Mandelstam
Nadezhda Mandelstam · Arts & Literature
Author
1899, Saratov, Russian Empire — 1980, Moscow, Soviet Union
Russian Empire · Soviet Union
Nadezhda Mandelstam is recognized among Jewish contributors to Arts & Literature — Author
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.
Verify and go deeper with these external references.
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Authors
This page is published in seven languages from an English source. The translations are reviewed, but a mistake can still slip through. If you spot one on this profile — a wrong word, a lost date, a sentence that says something the English does not — please tell us.
Author
Source: Jinfo.org — Jewish Authors
