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Ehrenfels's wife, Elfriede , had the book copyrighted in her name in 1937, which all that proves is that she copyrighted the book. After it was discovered in 1935 that Essad Bey was not a Shia Muslim Azerbaijani prince as he claimed to be, and was really just the Russian Jew Nussbaum who had converted to Islam and reinvented himself as Essad Bey, he was expelled from the German Writers Union and his books were banned in Germany. Significantly, it is after 1935 that books by "Kurban Said" start appearing in Austria. To get around the ban on Jewish authors, Austrian publishers used pseudonyms, but the German state quickly got wise to this stratagem, and started checking who registered the copyright to a book, to see if the author was Jewish or not. Elfriede von Ehrenfels registered the copyright to
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his work was all the more popular as being apparently written by an
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is how strange, exotic and romantic the peoples of the
Caucasus, especially the Muslim peoples, are. Only somebody from the West would produce a picture. A Muslim from the Caucasus would regard the West as strange, not him/herself. The Orientalist picture of the Caucasus is meant to appeal to Western
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didn't happen until 1938. Germany had 68 million people while
Austria had 8 million people. Even if you add in the 3 million German-speakers in Switzerland and the 2 million German-speakers in the Sudetenland, Germany was by far the largest market for German language books in the 1930s, as it still
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Austria, and quite another to have a best-selling novel in the far larger market of Germany. Some of the statements here about Reiss are acts of character assassination. The article's whole case that Ehrenfels was "Kurban Said" seems to rest on the
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into the German book market. And she was perfect as a cover. Elfriede von
Ehrenfels was an author, but not a very well known one, and since she was married a to Muslim, it would make sense she produce an Oriental novel like
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This article is written by somebody who appears to be working for the government of
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