Memorial plaque on the house in Berlin ( Fasanenstraße 72) where Lev Nussimbaum lived for two years Nussimbaum's father hired Alice Schulte, a woman of German ethnicity, to be his son's governess. Apparently, she had embraced left-wing politics and was possibly involved in the underground Communist movement. She committed suicide on Februin Baku when Nussimbaum was five years old.
His mother, Berta Basya Davidovna Slutzkin Nussimbaum according to her marriage certificate, was a Jew from Belarus. He later migrated to Baku and invested in oil. His father, Abraam Leybusovich Nussimbaum, was a Jew from Tiflis, in present-day Georgia, born in 1875. Nussimbaum's birth was originally registered in the Kyiv Synagogue. Documents in the Kyiv State Archives and the Kyiv Synagogue state that Lev Nussimbaum was born in Kiev.
That year no books were published in German – only two novellas in Polish. In 1934, his agent Werner Schendell warned him to slow down and take a year off between books so that he would not appear to be so prolific. The fact that Essad Bey was so prolific calls into question the authorship of these books and whether Essad Bey was primarily operating as a broker and doctoring manuscripts and marketing them under his pseudonym, which had become famous. Today, historians disregard books published under this name and rarely quote him, though the topics Essad Bey chose to write about are still critically relevant. Historians and literary critics who knew these subjects well discredited Essad Bey as a reliable source. He wrote under the name of Essad Bey in German. 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. 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 lived there and in Baku during his childhood before fleeing the Bolsheviks in 1920 at the age of 14.
Lev Nussimbaum (Octo– 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.
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