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Buy this book on-line (Mir Yeshivah Righteous Gentile) Kotsuji, Abram Setsuzau. [Inscribed] : THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE SEMITIC ALPHABETSTokyo; Kyo Bun Kwan, 1937
1st edition. Original Boards, 4to. Xiv, 229 pages. 29 cm. First Edition. Inscribed by author in Hebrew on front endpaper. English interspersed with Hebrew and other exotic alphabets. The Son of a Shinto priest and descendant from a long line of Shinto priests, the author Abram Kotsuji (1899-1973) was a Japanese Hebraist and ardent philo-Semite who founded the Institute of Biblical Research at the University of Tokyo. The present work is his Phd dissertation. During the Holocaust years Kotsuji greatly assisted the hundreds of rabbis and yeshiva students from Eastern Europe (including the entire Mir Yeshiva) who escaped before the German onslaught to Kobe, Japan and later to Japanese-occupied Shanghai. In 1959 Kotsuji formally converted to Judaism in Jerusalem. Internally some age toning but very clean.Very Good Condition. (HOLO-114-17a) Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of (Mir Yeshivah Righteous Gentile) Kotsuji, Abram Setsuzau. [Inscribed] : THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF THE SEMITIC ALPHABETS. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres anciens, livres rares, incunabula, collectables and first editions. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |