The Orientalist : solving the mystery of a strange and a dangerous life

The Orientalist : solving the mystery of a strange and a dangerous life /

This book traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany. Born in 1905 in Baku, at the edge of the czarist empire, Lev escaped the Russian Revolution in a camel caravan. He found refuge in Germany, where, writing...

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Main Author: Reiss, Tom
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [2005]
Subjects:
Said, Kurban, > 1905-1942.
1900-1999
Authors, German > 20th century > Biography.
Authors, German.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : on the trail of Kurban Said
  • Pt. I Revolution
  • Wild Jews
  • The way East
  • Escape
  • Constantinople, 1921
  • Minarets and silk stockings
  • Pt. II The German revolution
  • The Berlin wall
  • A hundred kinds of hunger
  • Weimar media star
  • Jewish orientalism
  • Backing into the inferno
  • Pt. III A tough morsel for the melting pot
  • Mussolini and mrs. Kurban Said
  • Positano.

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