Rodinsky's Room

by Iain Sinclair (Author), Rachel Lichtenstein (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1999

  $16.08

  David Rodinsky lived in the old Jewish East End of London. Sometime in the late sixties he disappeared and his room was left undisturbed for 20 years. This is the story of artist Rachel Lichtenstein's fascination with the enigmatic Rodinsky and how in uncovering his past she uncovered her own.

• New

  Paperback
  2000

  $13.27

  Rodinsky's world was that of the East European Jewry, cabbalistic speculation, an obsession with language as code and terrible loss. He touched the imagination of artist Rachel Lichtenstein, whose grandparents had left Poland in the thirties. This text weaves together Lichtenstein's quest for Rodinsky -which took her to Poland, to Israel and around Jewish London -with Iain Sinclair's meditations on her journey into her own past, and on the Whitechapel he has reinvented.