WRITER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lev Nussimbaum has received more than 113,248 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Lev Nussimbaum is the 3,411th most popular writer, the 520th most popular biography from Ukraine and the 70th most popular Ukrainian Writer.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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  • 1.79

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Lev Nussimbaum ranks 3,411 out of 7,302Before him are Max Aub, Abdallah ibn al-Mu'tazz, Augusto Genina, Mikhail Koltsov, Jiří Wolker, and Grace Elliott. After him are David Eddings, Ángel de Saavedra, 3rd Duke of Rivas, J. B. Priestley, Kafū Nagai, Joyce Meyer, and John Osborne.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Lev Nussimbaum ranks 184Before him are Rodolfo Orlandini, Aris Velouchiotis, Aurelio González, Mildred Natwick, Conduelo Píriz, and Tommy Dorsey. After him are D. R. Kaprekar, Ángel Melogno, Paul Grimault, Carlos Riolfo, Al Taliaferro, and Mantovani. Among people deceased in 1942, Lev Nussimbaum ranks 135Before him are Kaarel Eenpalu, Jacques-Émile Blanche, Roberto María Ortiz, Otto Herschmann, Vladimir Petlyakov, and Wilhelm Peterson-Berger. After him are Gabriel Terra, Charlie Christian, Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Nikola Vaptsarov, Alberto Franchetti, and J. B. M. Hertzog.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Lev Nussimbaum ranks 520 out of 1,365Before him are Rosalia Zemlyachka (1876), Georges Florovsky (1893), Yukhym Zvyahilsky (1933), Maciej Rataj (1884), Valentina Grizodubova (1909), and Mikhail Koltsov (1898). After him are Joseph Ludwig Raabe (1801), Mikhail Tereshchenko (1886), Oleksiy Mykhaylychenko (1963), Viorica Viscopoleanu (1939), Vladimir Megre (1950), and Mykhaylo Fomenko (1948).

Among WRITERS In Ukraine

Among writers born in Ukraine, Lev Nussimbaum ranks 70Before him are Pavlo Tychyna (1891), Gabriela Zapolska (1857), Manès Sperber (1905), Oles Honchar (1918), Mykola Khvylovy (1893), and Mikhail Koltsov (1898). After him are Vladimir Megre (1950), Olena Pchilka (1849), Mikhail Zhvanetsky (1934), Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko (1778), David Bergelson (1884), and Jan Brzechwa (1898).