YAHUDA, Joseph

A very good copy in original beige cloth and unclipped dust-wrapper. Clean and tight. Dust-wrapper very good although marked at spine, not torn. Presentation copy "to Gerald [Emanuel?] in friendship... " Used; Very Good Joseph Ezekiel Yahuda was a British lawyer, freelance author and a self-styled linguist. He was born on July 29, 1900 in Jerusalem, His best known, and most contentious work, published in 1982 was “Hebrew is Greek, Greek is Hebrew”, in which he proposed the theory that the Hebrew and Arabic languages are Greek in origin.