A Life Etched in Riga’s Stone: The Story of Pauls Mandelštams Pauls Mandelštams, born Fayvush Mandelstamm on September 19th, 1872, in the Kovno Governorate – a region now part of Lithuania but then within the Russian Empire – was an architect whose legacy is inextricably linked to the cityscape of Riga. His life, though tragically cut short by the horrors of the Holocaust in 1941, unfolded as a testament to artistic vision and resilience amidst shifting political tides. Mandelštams wasn’t merely a builder of structures; he was a chronicler of his time, translating the evolving aesthetic sens…