Nadejda Grinfeld

Nadejda Evgenevna Grinfeld
Member of the Moldovan Parliament
In office 1917–1918

Nadejda Evgenevna Grinfeld (1887–1918) was a Bessarabian politician.

Biography

Nadejda Grinfeld served as Member of the Moldovan Parliament (1917–1918). Sfatul Țării included only two women, Elena Alistar being the other woman member of Sfatul Țării.

Nadezhda Evgenevna Grinfeld had joined the Bund in Chişinău in 1903 and except for short periods in prison and emigration was continuously active in Menshevik organizations in Odessa, Kiev, and Saint Petersburg. Grinfeld, had already established a reputation as a Bundist speaker in the prerevolutionary period, was the head of a Bundist self-defense group in Odessa during 1905 Russian Revolution. During 1917, she was a popular speaker at mass meetings in Petrograd and Kronstadt.

Other names: Nadia (Frume) Kenigshats Grinfeld.

Bibliography

• Gheorghe E. Cojocaru, Sfatul Țării: itinerar, Civitas, Chişinău, 1998, ISBN 9975-936-20-2
• Mihai Taşcă, Sfatul Țării şi actualele autorităţi locale, "Timpul de dimineaţă", no. 114 (849), June 27, 2008 (page 16)
• Leopold H. Haimson, Ziva Galili y Garcia, Richard Wortman, The making of three Russian revolutionaries: voices from the Menshevik past, 1987.

External links

• Arhiva pentru Sfatul Tarii
• Deputaţii Sfatului Ţării şi Lavrenti Beria