Ros (pron: Roz)
1995
Brian McClafferty
"This is one of my artist's books. All the books that I have printed and published are all under the name Shalom Yehuda Press. This is the only book that I'm the author of, and it is under my original name, Brian McClafferty. It is a poem about my first Jewish girlfriend, who broke my heart. It has a very simple binding with my marble paper."
The description of this 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: 50
- Pages: 12
- Type of binding: Design Binding
- Languages: English
- Dimensions (cm): 7x6
- Binding: Yehuda Miklaf
- Type of printing: Letterpress
- Publication: Shalom Yehuda 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.
