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03336cam a2200397 a 4500 |
001 - CONTROL NUMBER |
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55729753 |
003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER |
control field |
OCoLC |
005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION |
control field |
20160121155955.0 |
008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
fixed length control field |
040603s2005 nyua b 001 0beng |
010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER |
LC control number |
2004050928 |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
1400062659 |
Qualifying information |
(alk. paper) |
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
International Standard Book Number |
9781400062652 |
Qualifying information |
(alk. paper) |
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
System control number |
.b79096773 |
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
System control number |
(OCoLC)55729753 |
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
Original cataloging agency |
DLC |
Language of cataloging |
eng |
Transcribing agency |
DLC |
Modifying agency |
BUR |
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BAKER |
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YDXCP |
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SOI |
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IOG |
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GEBAY |
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YUS |
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IG# |
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OCLCO |
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OCLCF |
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OCLCO |
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OCLCQ |
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OSU |
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UtOrBLW |
042 ## - AUTHENTICATION CODE |
Authentication code |
pcc |
049 ## - LOCAL HOLDINGS (OCLC) |
Holding library |
OSUU |
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
Classification number |
PT2637.A433 |
Item number |
Z87 2005 |
050 00 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
Classification number |
PT2637.A433 |
Item number |
Z87 2005 |
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Reiss, Tom. |
9 (RLIN) |
7561 |
245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
Title |
The Orientalist : |
Remainder of title |
solving the mystery of a strange and a dangerous life / |
Statement of responsibility, etc |
Tom Reiss. |
250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
Edition statement |
1st ed. |
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
Place of publication, distribution, etc |
New York : |
Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Random House, |
Date of publication, distribution, etc |
©2005. |
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
Extent |
xxvii, 433 pages : |
Other physical details |
illustrations ; |
Dimensions |
24 cm. |
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-411) and index. |
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
Formatted contents note |
Revolution -- Wild Jews -- The way east -- Escape -- Constantinople, 1921 -- Minarets and silk stockings -- The German revolution -- The Berlin wall -- A hundred kinds of hunger -- Weimar media star -- Jewish Orientalism -- Backing into the inferno -- A tough morsel for the melting pot -- Mussolini and Mrs. Kurban Said -- Positano. |
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
Summary, etc |
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 under the names Essad Bey and Kurban Said, his remarkable books about Islam, desert adventures, and global revolution, became celebrated across fascist Europe. But his life grew wilder than his wildest stories. He married an international heiress who had no idea of his true identity--until she divorced him in a tabloid scandal. His closest friend in New York was arrested as the leading Nazi agent in the United States. He was invited to be Mussolini's official biographer--until the Fascists discovered his "true" identity. Under house arrest, he wrote his last book, helped by a mysterious half-German salon hostess, an Algerian weapons-smuggler, and the poet Ezra Pound. As he tracks down the pieces of Lev's deliberately obscured life, Reiss discovers a series of shadowy worlds--of European pan-Islamists, nihilist assassins, anti-Nazi book smugglers, Baku oil barons, Jewish Orientalists--that have also been forgotten. The result is a thoroughly unexpected picture of the twentieth century--of the origins of our ideas about race and religious self-definition, and of the roots of modern fanaticism and terrorism. |
530 ## - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM AVAILABLE NOTE |
Additional physical form available note |
Also issued online. |
600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
Personal name |
Said, Kurban, |
Dates associated with a name |
1905-1942. |
9 (RLIN) |
7562 |
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Authors, German |
Chronological subdivision |
20th century |
Form subdivision |
Biography. |
9 (RLIN) |
7563 |
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY |
Display text |
Online version: |
Main entry heading |
Reiss, Tom. |
Title |
Orientalist. |
Edition |
1st ed. |
Place, publisher, and date of publication |
New York : Random House, ©2005 |
Record control number |
(OCoLC)607579631. |
856 41 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
Materials specified |
Sample text |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random051/2004050928.html">http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random051/2004050928.html</a> |
856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
Materials specified |
Contributor biographical information |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random051/2004050928.html">http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random051/2004050928.html</a> |
856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
Materials specified |
Publisher description |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random051/2004050928.html">http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random051/2004050928.html</a> |
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
Source of classification or shelving scheme |
Dewey Decimal Classification |
Koha item type |
Book |