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HOMAGE TO AGREATLIBRARIAN, TEACHER, AND FRIEND * 2 included a special reading room for the consultation of rare materials, a technical services department, and storage facilities to enable the future growth of the library . The facilities used by this great institution were a testament to his masterful oversight . When Menahem arrived at JTS from Israel in 1964, he worked in a pre - computerized environment ; this was long before the introduction of the Aleph multilingual library catalog . He quickly learned where each manuscript, rare book, ketubbah, megillah, and broadside was located . Later, when I would enter the rare book room with him to look for a specific item, he would immediately walk to a shelf and retrieve it without consulting a catalog . The catalog of the rare book room was in his brain . Menahem’s keen eye and phenomenal memory were responsible for reuniting two halves of a rare decorated fifteenth - century Bible from Yemen . The first volume, containing the text of G...
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