Tamara Natanovna Eidelman (Russian: Тамара Натановна Эйдельман) is a Russian historian, Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation, translator, blogger and an editor for Russian Life.[1][2][3]
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Native name | Тамара Натановна Эйдельман |
Born | Tamara Natanovna Eidelman (1959-12-15) December 15, 1959 (age 62) Moscow, USSR |
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Language | Russian |
Citizenship | Russia |
Alma mater | Moscow State University (Faculty of History, 1981) |
Period | 1986—present |
Genre | Non-fiction |
Subject | History |
Notable awards | Honored Teacher of the Russian Federation |
Spouse | Peter Aleshkovsky |
Children | Dmitry Aleshkovsky [ru] |
Relatives | Natan Eidelman (father) Yakov Eidelman [ru] (grandfather) |
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 Dmitry Aleshkovsky [ru].[5] She has a YouTube channel on world history in Russian.[6] She is the head of the History Department in Moscow School #1567,[2] an author and editor of Mozaika kultur (Rus. Мозаика культур "Mosaics of Cultures") study guide.[2] Tamara Eidelman has been teaching since 1981.[2]
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.
Authored articles on teaching issues published in Russian Journal, Euroclio Bulletin, School Review; presented TEDx 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 (conference organizer) [ru] 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.
Was blogging on the Echo of Moscow website between 2012-2022.[7]
In October 2019, she created the “History Lessons with Tamara Eidelman” channel on YouTube, where she discusses various historical topics. As of March 2022, the video blog had more than 500 thousand subscribers, and the total video views have reached 35 million.
Since 2020, she was a columnist for the online edition of The Insider.
In April 2021, she presented the author's cycle "Against the Current: A History of Civil Conflicts" at the Yeltsin Center. The cycle was 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.
Since 2022, lives with her daughter in Lisbon.
In 2014, she criticized Russian politicians for their military intervention in Ukraine.[8] 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.[9] On August 31 of the same year, she criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin for disregarding the rule of law.[10]
In April 2021, Eidelman wrote an open letter asking the Moscow office of Doctors Without Borders to help politician Alexei Navalny, then imprisoned in a penal colony in Pokrov. The letter was signed by approximately two thousand people. Later, Eidelman was called to the police in connection with a social network post.[citation needed]
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