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THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS
16—Friday, April 2, 1971
Israelis Are Using
Newest Method of
Book Restoration
• JERUSALEM — The most mod-
ern method in the world to restore
-ancient manuscripts is being intro-
duced at the Jewish National and
University Library on the Hebrew
University campus. A paper-mend-
ing machine, designed by a new
immigrant from behind the Iron
Curtain is drawing inquiries from
many places, including the U.S.
Library of Congress.
"Anywhere
else," explained
chemist Esther Alkalay, director
o f the department of restoration,
116 We would be dealing mainly with
material originating in the country,
having been exposed to local con-
ditions — there would be certain
national chaTacteristics. What we
receive here.has come a long way;
after having been in wars; in
ghettos. in refugee camps -- it
comes not only from different per-
iods but also from different cul-
tures."
An accompanying card records
the identity of every item and, by
means of esoteric symbols, what
might almost be termed its medi-
cal history. The process of preser-
vation to which every book and
manuscript is subjected consists
of four stages: disinfection, clean-
ing, de-acidification and reinforce-
ment.
To restore paper by hand is
not only slow and expensive but
also unsatisfactory. The patches
obscure what text there may be
around' their margins. While she
was working in Sofia, Bulgaria,
Mrs. Alkalay heard that a
machine for mending paper was
being developed in Russia, and
promptly set about designing one
for herself.
In a photograph, Mrs. Alkalay's
machine looks rather like a baby's
incubator. She explained: "First
we analyze the consistency of the
paper to be mended, then we in-
troduce it into the machine toget-
her with some pulp of the same
consistency — and the patching Is
done in a moment, not overlapping
but joining on to the existing
page."
She hopes to acquire another
Machine, from the United States,
which disinfects by a sort of dry-
cleaning process.
Everything handled by the de-
partment is valuable, value de-
pending on rarity rather than age.
The Jewish National and Univer-
sity Library has the largest col-
lection of Hebrew manuscripts in
the world.
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and MRS. MOLLIE WARSH
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