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008			040603s2005 nyua b 001 0beng
010			_a2004050928
020			_a1400062659 _q(alk. paper)
020			_a9781400062652 _q(alk. paper)
035			_a.b79096773
035			_a(OCoLC)55729753
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050	0	0	_aPT2637.A433 _bZ87 2005
050	0	0	_aPT2637.A433 _bZ87 2005
100	1		_aReiss, Tom. _97561
245	1	4	_aThe Orientalist : _bsolving the mystery of a strange and a dangerous life / _cTom Reiss.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bRandom House, _c©2005.
300			_axxvii, 433 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 385-411) and index.
505	0		_aRevolution -- 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			_aThis 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			_aAlso issued online.
600	1	0	_aSaid, Kurban, _d1905-1942. _97562
650		0	_aAuthors, German _y20th century _vBiography. _97563
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aReiss, Tom. _tOrientalist. _b1st ed. _dNew York : Random House, ©2005 _w(OCoLC)607579631.
856	4	1	_3Sample text _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random051/2004050928.html
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random051/2004050928.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/random051/2004050928.html
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