Volume 52, Number 10 · June 9, 2005
Between Two Worlds
By Ian Buruma
The Orientalist: Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
by Tom Reiss
Random House, 433 pp., $25.95
The Life of Isamu Noguchi: Journey Without Borders
by Masayo Duus, translated from the Japanese by Peter Duus
Princeton University Press, 439 pp., $29.95
Some Jews would no doubt have joined the Nazi movement if only it had not regarded them as mortal enemies. But since it did, no sane Jew was likely to see any merit in the Nazis. Lev Nussimbaum, also known as Kurban Said, or Essad Bey, was an exception. A famous writer in his time, he was an early admirer of Mussolini, and a defender of the Nazi regime. The 'National Socialist revolution,' he believed, 'has saved Europe from a catastrophe.'
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