Glushanok, Galina. Vera Nabokova's Correspondence with A. Goldenveizer. 2007

Galina Glushanok (New York) publishes selections from the correspondence of the writer's wife, Vera Nabokov, and A. Goldenweiser (1890-1979), a lawyer and publisher living in New York. The letters are a part of The Goldenweiser Collection at the Bakhmeteff Archives of Russian and East European History and Culture at Columbia University. From over one hundred documents (mostly official and business letters), Glushanok selected twenty-one letters spanning a period from 1938 until 1970. During the 1950s, Goldenweiser helped the Nabokov family and many other European Jews to obtain the reparations from Germany. Not only Vera was compensated for her work in Berlin during the Nazi era, but her sister Elena Massalsky, her cousin Anna Feigin, and many other good friends of the Nabokovs (Elizaveta Gutman-Marinel and Vladimir Hessen among them) also received what they deserved due to Goldenweiser's timely assistance. For Vera Nabokov, getting the compensation was a matter of moral principle: as soon as she received it, the whole amount was donated to the Israeli Ministry of Defense. Mrs. Nabokov, as always, appears in these letters as an exceptionally devoted wife and a selfless and generous individual. Goldenweiser, in his turn, was a long-standing admirer of Vladimir's fiction and occasionally mentions to Vera his absolute fascination with her husband's works.