Kotsuji, Abram Setsuzau. The Origin and Evolution of the Semitic Alphabets

(JAPAN).

Kyo Bun Kwan

Tokyo

1937

FIRST EDITION. English interspersed with Hebrew. Numerous charts

The author Abram Kotsuji (b.1899), a Japanese Hebraist and ardent philo-Semite was Director of the Institute of Biblical Research in Tokyo. He greatly assisted the hundreds of Yeshiva rabbis and students from Eastern Europe (including the entire Mirrer Yeshiva) who escaped before the German onslaught to Kobe, Japan. After the war, Kotsuji formally converted to Judaism in Jerusalem. See his memoir, From Tokyo to Jerusalem: Autobiography of a Japanese Convert (1964)