Lew Nussimbaum aka Essad Bey aka Kurban Said – Wanderer between Worlds
Center for Jewish History 15 W. 16th Street, New York CityBorn to a Jewish family in Kiev, raised in Baku, and converted to Islam in Berlin, Essad Bey’s orientalist writings reached a huge audience in the Weimar Republic. Although his novels and essays depicting life in locales such as Azerbaijan and the Caucasus helped shape notions of a mysterious and romantic East in the German public imagination, the Muslim community…