''Rodinsky's Room'' () is a non-fiction book by the British authors

Rachel Lichtenstein Rachel Lichtenstein is a writer, artist and archivist. In 1999 she wrote '' Rodinsky's Room'' with Iain Sinclair, and since then she has published ''Rodinsky's Whitechapel'' (1999) and ''On Brick Lane'' (2007). This last will be joined by two othe ...

and

Iain Sinclair Iain Sinclair FRSL (born 11 June 1943) is a writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London, recently within the influences of psychogeography. Biography Education Sinclair was born in Cardiff in 1943. From 1956 to 1961, he was educate ...

, first published by Granta Books in 1999. Sections are written alternately by each author. It tells the story of Lichtenstein's attempts to uncover the story of the reclusive Jewish

autodidact Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) or self-education (also self-learning and self-teaching) is education without the guidance of masters (such as teachers and professors) or institutions (such as schools). Generally, autodidacts are individua ...

David Rodinsky, who disappeared in the late 1960s and whose room above a synagogue at 19 Princelet Street in the

Spitalfields Spitalfields is a district in the East End of London and within the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. The area is formed around Commercial Street (on the A1202 London Inner Ring Road) and includes the locale around Brick Lane, Christ Church, ...

area in the

East End The East End of London, often referred to within the London area simply as the East End, is the historic core of wider East London, east of the Roman and medieval walls of the City of London and north of the River Thames. It does not have uni ...

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

was discovered undisturbed 20 years later.

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