Being sold here is a Hardcover, First Edition copy of "The Origin And Evolution Of The Semitic Alphabets": By Abram Setsuzau Kotsuji. 230pp.

The book is in beautiful condition.  No writing, highlighting or dog-eared pages. Binding is tight, pages are crisp and clean.

"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. See his memoir, From Tokyo to Jerusalem: Autobiography of a Japanese Convert (1964)."

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