HistoryFigure1891–1938

Ossip Mandelstam

אוסיפ מנדלשטם

Region: Union soviétique

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Great Russian poet, a figure of Acmeism, persecuted for a poem targeting Stalin. He died in a transit camp of the Gulag.

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Sources & resources

« Mandelshtam, Osip Emilyevich », Encyclopaedia Judaica (2ᵉ éd.) (2007) ↗
K. Taranovsky, Calif. Slavic Studies (1971)
N. Nilsson, Scande-Slavica (1963)
B. Bukhshtab, Russian Literature Triquarterly (1971)
Slavic Forum (1975)
O. Ronen, Studies Presented to R. Jakobson… (1968)
essays by S. Broyde, D. Segal, Yu. Levin. L. Foster, et al., Slavic Poetics: Essays Dedicated to K. Taranovsky (1975)
V. Terras, in: seej, 10 (1966), 251–67 (1966)
N. Mandelstam, Hope against Hope (1970)
J. Harris (ed.), The Complete Critical Prose and Letters of Osip Mandelshtam (1978)