Tamara Eidelman

Tamara Natanovna Eidelman (Russian: Тамара Натановна Эйдельман) is a Russian historian, honored teacher of Russia, translator, blogger and an editor for Russian Life.[1][2][3]

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming conventions, the patronymic is Natanovna and the family name is Eidelman.
Tamara Eidelman
Tamara Eidelman in 2021
Native name
Тамара Натановна Эйдельман
BornTamara Natanovna Eidelman
(1959-12-15) December 15, 1959
Moscow, USSR
Occupation
LanguageRussian
CitizenshipRussia
Alma materMoscow State University
(Faculty of History, 1981)
Period1986—present
GenreNon-fiction
SubjectHistory
Notable awardsHonored teacher of Russian Federation
SpousePeter Aleshkovsky
ChildrenDmitry Aleshkovsky
RelativesNatan Eidelman (father)
Yakov Eidelman (grandfather)

Biography

She is a daughter of historian and writer Natan Eidelman[4] and wife of Russian writer, archeologist and TV presenter Peter Aleshkovsky and mother of Russian photographer Dmitry Aleshkovsky.[5] She has a YouTube channel on world history in Russian.[6] Chair[2] of History Department of Moscow School #1567; presenter at EUROCLIO (European association of history teachers), with the experience of familiarisation with which she organised in Moscow Association of History Teachers (Rus. Ассоциация учителей истории (Объединение преподавателей истории)) which she headed.[2] An author and editor of Mozaika kultur (Rus. Мозаика культур "Mosaics of Cultures") study guide.[2] Teaching since 1981.[2]

In 2014, she criticized Russian politicians for their military intervention in Ukraine.[7] On April 9 she said that she would like to teach patriotism in her classes but only if she can do it her way, referring to mass deportation of Crimean Tatars in World War II which according to her is still not a part of curriculum.[8] On August 31 of the same year, she criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin for disregarding the rule of law.[9]

She authored a Russian translation of the book The Wolf of Wall Street by Jordan Belfort.[10]

Teaching and media activities

From 1986 to 2021, she worked at school No. 67 in Moscow as a teacher of history and social studies, later as head of the department of history.

She is the author of a number of articles on teaching issues in the Russian Journal, Euroclio Bulletin, School Review, and participated in TED Talks.

She hosted thematic programs “Books of Our Childhood”, “The Subjunctive Mood” and “The Fates of Books” on the radio stations Mayak, Voice of Russia and Radio Russia-Culture.

Author and lecturer of a series of lectures on history and social science at the Direct Speech School.

Author and lecturer of a series of children's audio courses on history for Radio Arzamas.

Lecturer of a series of lectures on the history of Russia at the beginning of the 19th century on the InternetUrok.ru platform.

Since 2012 he has been blogging on the Echo of Moscow website.

In October 2019, she created the “History Lessons with Tamara Eidelman” channel on YouTube, where videos are regularly uploaded in which, as a storyteller, she discusses various historical topics. As of March 2022, the video blog has more than 500 thousand subscribers, and the total video views have reached 35 million.

Since 2020, he has been a columnist for the online edition of The Insider.

In April 2021, she presented at the Yeltsin Center the author's cycle Against the Current: A History of Civil Conflicts, dedicated to the peaceful struggle of people for their rights, including the bloodless change of totalitarian power in a number of European countries in the 20th century.

Also in April 2021, Eidelman wrote an open letter asking the Moscow office of Doctors Without Borders to help Alexei Navalny, who is in a penal colony in Pokrov. Approximately two thousand people signed this letter. Later, Eidelman was called to the police in connection with a post on the social network.

Since 2022 lives with her daughter in Lisbon.

References
  1. "Tamara Eidelman". Russian Life. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  2. Учителя большого города. Тамара Эйдельман [Teachers of the big city. Tamara Eidelman]. Bolshoy Gorod. Retrieved February 24, 2015.
  3. Уроки истории Тамары Эйдельман [Tamara Eidelman's history lessons]. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. September 11, 2014. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  4. Тамара Эйдельман: «Не каждый учитель удирает из полиции через окошко» [Tamara Eidelman, "Not every teacher get away from a police station through a window"]. No. 34. Novaya Gazeta. April 7, 2004. Retrieved February 24, 2015.
  5. "Митя Алешковский". Snob.ru. Retrieved February 24, 2015.
  6. "Tamara Eidelman's YouTube channel. About the channel". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2020-06-28.
  7. Steven Rosenberg (September 15, 2014). "Traitors in Vladimir Putin's Russia". Moscow: BBC News. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  8. "In The Wake Of Crimea Annexation, Patriotism Reigns In Russian Classrooms". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. April 9, 2014. Retrieved February 24, 2015.
  9. Albina Kovalyova (August 31, 2014). "Russians Get Creative With Ukraine Protests Despite Danger". NBC News. Retrieved February 23, 2015.
  10. "Tamara Eidelman (translator)". ozon.ru. Retrieved February 24, 2015.
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