サンクトペテルブルクで生まれた。父親のマクシミリアン・ナフマン(Maximilian Nachman)はリガ出身のユダヤ人で、サンクトペテルブルクの大学で法律を学び、ドイツ領事館やアルフレッド・ノーベルの兄の会社などの法律顧問として働いた人物である。母親(Clara Emilia Maria von Roeder)はバルト・ドイツ人の家族の出身であった。
Bernstein L. An Artist in Exile = Magda Nachman: An Artist in Exile / trans. from English by L. Bernstein. - St. Petersburg: BiblioRossika, 2020. - 352 p. - (Modern Western Russian Studies). - ISBN 978-5-6044709-4-7.
Lina Bernstein. Magda Nachman: An Artist in Exile. Academic Studies Press, 2020
Bernstein and Elena Neklyudova. Italic Font of the Era. Postal Prose from the Archive of Yu. L. Obolenskaya // Our Heritage 2017 (121, 122). Part 1, Part 2
Lina Bernstein. Forgotten Artists of the Zvantseva School // Toronto Slavic Quarterly, 58, 2016.
Yulia Obolenskaya. In the Zvantseva School under the Guidance of Bakst and Dobuzhinsky: Publication and Commentary by Lina Bernstein and Elena Neklyudova // Toronto Slavic Quarterly. — V. 37, summer 2011/ — pp. 209—242.
Lina Bernstein. Indian Nationalists' Cooperation with Soviet Russia in Central Asia: The Case of M. P. T. Acharya
M. P. T. Acharya . An Uncompromising Rebel: M. P. T. Acharya and Indian Anarchism. Edited and introduced by Ole Birk Laursen. Kairos: A Journal of Critical Symposium Vol. 3 No. 1 (2018)