Mandelstam

American  

[man-dl-stahm, muhn-dyil-shtahm] / ˈmæn dlˌstɑm, mən dyɪlˈʃtɑm /

noun

1. Osip Emilyevich, 1892–1938?, Russian acmeist poet and essayist.

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Mandelstam British  

/ ˈmændəlˌʃtɑːm /

noun

1. Nadezhda ( Yakovlevna ) (næˈdɛʃdə), born Nadezhda Khazina. 1899–1980, Soviet writer, wife of Osip Mandelstam: noted for her memoirs Hope against Hope (1971) and Hope Abandoned (1973) describing life in Stalin's Russia

2. Osip ( Emilyevich ) (ˈɒsiːp). 1891–?1938, Soviet poet and writer, born in Warsaw; he was persecuted by Stalin and died in a labour camp. His works include Tristia (1922), Poems (1928), and the autobiographical Journey to Armenia (1933)

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Example Sentences

I’d published a scholarly book on the poet Osip Mandelstam that year, and Adam had actually read it.

From Washington Post

On the dissident side are the classics: Pasternak, Brodsky, Mandelstam, Solzhenitsyn.

From Washington Post

Some of these chapters are quite good and feel on point, most notably one about the poet Osip Mandelstam, Proust and depictions of Jewish identity.

From New York Times

I noticed on the card that his wife’s name was Nadezhda, and remarked that the only other time I had seen that name in print was on the books I had read by Nadezhda Mandelstam.

From New York Times

I finally got to “Hope Abandoned,” the sequel to Nadezhda Mandelstam’s “Hope Against Hope.”

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