Rodinsky`s world was that of the East European Jewry, cabbalistic speculation, an obsession with language as code & 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 Pol&, to Israel & around Jewish London -with Iain Sinclair`s meditations on her journey into her own past, & on the Whitechapel he has reinvented.