His Father's House. The Story of George Alexander Kohut.
[Judaica]. Kohut, Rebekah. His Father's House: The Story of George Alexander Kohut. New Haven: Yale University Press for the Alexander Kohut Memorial Foundation, 1938.
8vo; 246 pp.; frontispiece and six illustrations; green cloth; gray dust-jacket printed in black; jacket sunned at spine and edges; chipped at spine ends with several closed tears along top and bottom edges; crease on front cover of dust-jacket; very good in good dust-jacket.
First Edition. Mrs. Kohut's husband Alexander (1842-1894) was a rabbi, Jewish scholar and collector of books on the Middle East. Rebekah gave this collection to Yale, along with endowments for Jewish and Oriental studies and research, and established a foundation there in 1915. During Mrs. Kohut's lifetime, there were Alexander Kohut foundations in Vienna, Berlin, Budapest, and New York. Her son, George Alexander Kohut (1874-1933), a scholar himself, encouraged others in research and presided over the Kohut Foundations.
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