Tamar Yellin
Tamar Yellin (born 1963) is an English author and teacher who lives in Yorkshire. Her debut novel, first novel, ''The Genizah at the House of Shepher'', won the 2007 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature. Biography Tamar Yellin was born and raised in Leeds. Her father was a third-generation native of Jerusalem; his father was Yitzhak Yaakov Yellin (1885–1964), one of the pioneers of the Hebrew language press in Palestine. Her mother was the daughter of a Polish immigrant to England. Yellin attended the Leeds Girls' High School. She studied biblical and modern Hebrew language and Arabic language at the University of Oxford. She spent 13 years writing her first novel, ''The Genizah at the House of Shepher'' (2005), and took two years to find a publisher. This was followed by a collection of 13 short stories, ''Kafka in Brontëland'' (2006) and another novel, ''Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes'' (2008). She also writes fiction for magazines, including ''The London Magazine'' and the ' ...
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Leeds
Leeds () is a city and the administrative centre of the City of Leeds district in West Yorkshire, England. It is built around the River Aire and is in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. It is also the third-largest settlement (by population) in England, after London and Birmingham. The city was a small manorial borough in the 13th century and a market town in the 16th century. It expanded by becoming a major production centre, including of carbonated water where it was invented in the 1760s, and trading centre (mainly with wool) for the 17th and 18th centuries. It was a major mill town during the Industrial Revolution. It was also known for its flax industry, iron foundries, engineering and printing, as well as shopping, with several surviving Victorian era arcades, such as Kirkgate Market. City status was awarded in 1893, a populous urban centre formed in the following century which absorbed surrounding villages and overtook the nearby York population. It is locate ...
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