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Lev Nussimbaum

1905 - 1942

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Lev Nussimbaum (October 17, 1905 – August 27, 1942), who wrote under the pen names Essad Bey and Kurban Said, was a writer and journalist, born in Kiev to a Jewish family. He lived there and in Baku during his childhood before fleeing the Bolsheviks in 1920 at the age of 14. In 1922, while living in Germany, he obtained a certificate claiming that he had converted to Islam in the presence of the imam of the Turkish embassy in Berlin. He created a niche for himself in the competitive European literary world by writing about topics that Westerners, in general, knew little about - the Caucasus, the Russian Empire, the Bolshevik Revolution, newly discovered oil, and Islam. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lev Nussimbaum is the 3,854th most popular writer (down from 3,410th in 2019), the 562nd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 520th in 2019) and the 80th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lev Nussimbaum ranks 3,854 out of 7,302. Before him are Paul Johnson, Sunthorn Phu, Wang Changling, Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, Mykola Bazhan, and Txillardegi. After him are Konstantin Fedin, Greg Bear, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano, Frédéric Beigbeder, and Edmonde Charles-Roux.

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Among people born in 1905, Lev Nussimbaum ranks 212. Before him are Siaka Stevens, Tommy Dorsey, Aurelio González, John Kuck, Mantovani, and Alexander Rodimtsev. After him are Joel McCrea, Víctor Morales, Albrecht Unsöld, Markos Vamvakaris, Lev Schnirelmann, and Georges Schehadé. Among people deceased in 1942, Lev Nussimbaum ranks 155. Before him are Elmer Niklander, Herbert Selpin, Símun av Skarði, Łucja Frey, Constantin Henriquez, and Ants Laikmaa. After him are J. B. M. Hertzog, Kiyonao Ichiki, Ioannis Malokinis, Nikola Vaptsarov, Albert Kahn, and Ferdinand Albin Pax.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Lev Nussimbaum ranks 562 out of 1,365. Before him are Ilya Ilf (1897), Oksana Zabuzhko (1960), Vladimir Smirnov (1954), Nikolai Grinko (1920), Hersch Lauterpacht (1897), and Mykola Bazhan (1904). After him are Vitaly Zholobov (1937), Yuri Lisyansky (1773), Nikki Benz (1981), Viorica Ursuleac (1894), Nikolai Podvoisky (1880), and Karl Doppler (1825).

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Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Lev Nussimbaum ranks 80. Before him are Demyan Bedny (1883), Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko (1778), Viktor Nekrasov (1911), Ilya Ilf (1897), Oksana Zabuzhko (1960), and Mykola Bazhan (1904). After him are Gheorghe Asachi (1788), Vira Vovk (1926), Jan Brzechwa (1898), David Bergelson (1884), Ida Fink (1921), and Sofia Yablonska (1907).

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