Rodinsky's Room

Rodinsky's Room

Rodinsky's Room (ISBN 1862072574) is a non-fiction book by Rachel Lichtenstein and Iain Sinclair. It is an oral history of the neighbourhood of Spitalfields in the East End of London. In it the authors attempt to discover what became of reclusive Jewish scholar David Rodinsky, who disappeared in the late 1960's and whose flat at 19 Princelet Street was discovered 20 years later.

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