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    Wolf Messing The True Story of Russias

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    This book review summarizes Tatiana Lungin's biography of Wolf Messing, a famous Russian psychic and mentalist in the early 20th century. The review notes that while Lungin knew Messing personally, her book mixes factual accounts with fictional stories and unverified anecdotes about Messing's abilities and encounters with famous figures like Einstein and Freud. In particular, the book recounts a story of mässing (metall) meeting both Einstein and Freud in Vienna in and demonstrating psychic abilities, but the review finds no evidence to support this actually occurring. Many of Messing's stories seem to have been invented by a writer hoping to sensationalize Messing's biography for commercial purposes. As a result, Lungin's book does

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    Wolf Messing: The True Story of Russia`s Greatest Psychic

    In this, the first biography and personal memoir of WOLF MESSING to appear in the West, Tatiana Lungin limns a revealing portrait of one of the greatest psychic performers of the twentieth century.

    Born a Polish Jew near Warsaw, Messing ran away from home at the age of eleven and soon discovered his psychic gifts. Supporting himself by performing mind-reading acts in Berlin theaters, at fourteen Messing was sold by his unscrupulous manager to the famous Busch Circus. In no time Wolf gained an international reputation as the world’s greatest telepath as he toured the capitals of Europe. In Vienna Messing met Albert Einstein who brought him to the apartment of another admirer of his abilities, Sigmund Freud. His touring days ended abruptly in when, after Messing publicly predicted the downfall of the Third Reich, the Nazis placed a sizable bounty on his head. Summoning all his hypnotic powers, he escaped capture by the Gestap

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    The Enigmatic Mentalist Wolf Messing

    Alexandra Nagel 19 19 The Enigmatic Mentalist Wolf Messing Summary T he name of the Jewish psychic stage performer Wolf G. Messing (– ) has gained in Russia almost legendary proportions. It is the result of a series of hagiographic anecdotes concocted by the journalist Mikhail V. Khvastunov (–) that were incorporated in articles published in as Messing’s autobiography. Although several stories of the Messing-narrative have been debunked, others are still enigmatic and in need of further investigation. Wolf Messing is portrayed as a man with extraordinary talents The popular image of Wolf Grigorevich Messing as Russia’s “greatest psychic” exists of a handful of biographical details and a series of remarkable anecdotes. The tale is more or less as follows: Born in Góra Kalwaria, a Chassidic village 25 km outside Warsaw, into a poor but pious Jewish family, young “Wolfele” ran off at the age of eleven. Without any money and without a ticket, he emb