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 1930s. 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 in his own writing. Rodinsky's Room is a testament to a world that has all but vanished, a homage to a unique culture and way of life.
- ISBN10 1862073295
- ISBN13 9781862073296
- Publish Date 14 February 2000 (first published 25 May 1999)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 26 February 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Granta Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 352
- Language English