From Leaf to Leaf
2022
Paperwork in Israel
״The book is made of twenty-one sheets of handmade paper by 15 Israeli paper makers, which I collected in 1989. Each sheet is protected by a folder with a letterpress-printed explanation of that sheet in English and Hebrew.
The folders are accompanied by a 60-page booklet containing biographies of the 15 paper makers and several articles in English and Hebrew. The booklet was prepared in 2022. Everything is contained in a handmade box.
I dedicated the project to the memory of Joyce Schmidt (z”l), who founded the Uncle Bob Leslie Paper Mill in Beersheba, and it is made in an edition of 40 numbered copies.״
The description of the book is transcribed from conversations between Yehuda Miklaf and Shiraz Grinbaum held in January 2026. The collection of the legendary Jerusalem bookbinder was photographed especially for the website by Yair Meyuhas. Miklaf's collection includes Design Bindings created over more than 40 years.
- Copies: 40
- Pages: 21
- Type of binding: Hard Cover Profolio (hand made clamshell box)
- Languages: Hebrew, English
- Dimensions (cm): 30.5x23.5
- Printing: Yehuda Shalom Press
- Binding: Yehuda Miklaf
- Type of printing: Letterpress and Digital print
- Publication: Yehuda Shalom Press
- Place of publication: Jerusalem
- Book photography: Leafing Magazine
Yehuda Miklaf was born in Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1942, and educated there and in New York. In 1968, he moved to Toronto and began working at the University of Toronto Library, where he stayed for almost ten years. During this time, he began to learn bookbinding with Emrys Evans at the Rare Book Library. Yehuda befriended two other notable binders in the Toronto area. One was Anton (Tony) Lucas, the binder at the Metropolitan Toronto Library, and Michael Wilcox, who was an independent binder. Miklaf has been working as a professional binder since 1977 with major book collectors, artists, private presses, galleries, and museums in Israel and around the world. He immigrated to Jerusalem in the fall of 1986 with his wife, Maurene Fritz. He is also a professional printer and has made a number of his own artist’s books in limited editions. His own press, based in Jerusalem, is titled Yehuda Shalom Press.
