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

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, first published by

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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

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

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area in the East End of

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was discovered undisturbed 20 years later.

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