In 1969, David Rodinsky, a jew who moved to London, a great scholar of the Torah ( the primary document of Judaism) and most expert of ancient languages \u200b\u200band dialects, as it disappears forever swallowed up into nothingness.
Rodinsky was a pretty lonely, in fact, say that he lived as a hermit, so when he disappeared, having no heirs or relatives, no one bothered to look.
The only thing left was his room, a bedroom where he lived, when the number 19 Princelet Street, obtained in the attic of a small disused synagogue.
accommodation is Rodinsky was a chaos of notes, clippings, maps, newspapers, letters, dictionaries, and an old street map of London with tours of the tracks.
So far nothing unusual you might say ... but the best is yet to come ...
In 1980, during renovation work, the workers threw down a wall and found themselves in front of his room was opened for the first time in 11 years after the death of Rodinsky.
The room was sealed from the inside and there was no escape!
Workers who entered found themselves before the eyes of a room still full of life.
A cup of tea with the leaves inside the cabinet open, the unmade bed, money, personal documents ... everything was still, stuck at 11 years before ... as if the good David had just left home, only with a thin layer of dust covering everything.
From that moment on, many curious tourists and scholars are beginning to want to visit his home and an interest in its thousands of notes to be able to decipher.
Reports on its occurrence, sometimes bearded, sometimes without, as a poor minute mentally ill or as a very tall and distinguished gentleman ... began to multiply on the right and there throughout London.
Some swore they saw him on the bed, also referred to as a stuffed cat in the house ... the fact is that among the many who are passionate about the case, Rachel Lichtenstein Iain Sinclair and others were obsessed with more than enough to carry out private investigations then told in the book "The chamber Rodinsky. The
Lichtenstein spent the rest of his life searching for Rodinsky, went to Poland in search of his relatives, when she became pregnant and she called her son David!
While looking for the grandfather of Rodinsky, Rachel came across a man, David Jacobs, who pointed to the place where you can find David, or ... the old cemetery jew in Waltham Abbey North East London.
not all. Rachel discovered that David had died March 4, 1969 for a lung infection, his age at death was 44 years and found the place where he died ... Epsom, a village 30 km southwest of London. Epsom
Why? Around Epsom there were four psychiatric hospitals, and one of them, "Longrove" burned in a fire five years earlier, in 1964. The
"Longrove" was the kind of place full of religious scholars and cabalistic genes wrapped in the world of metaphysics. The doctors were almost all German or French and Asian nurses all ... imsomma ... there were significant problems of communication and surely some mistake was made.
It was a rumor that Rachel was on the trail of David Lichtenstein and so was put in contact with Bella Lipman, a neighbor who had lived in the apartment of David. Bella
confirmed to have known him and Rodinsky that according to her was anything but a genius, but only a sick mind, and also the cousin of David, Ethel, told of his childhood with a mother she too unbalanced mental state. The plaque was
Rodinsky lost in a cemetery outside the city, 24 km from London, while the place of death was 30 miles south ... having no relatives can not understand those who have been unable to pay his burial.
Nobody knew anything about the cemetery, no one came to visit, nothing at all ... but the strangest thing to note was that the tomb was empty inside also (a fact to which I have yet to light) really Rodinsky
As was dead? He had been killed? Why was she gone? Where was his body? Why portare un corpo a 50 km di distanza quando è noto che a Londra ogni quartiere aveva il suo cimitero? Rodinsky era un genio o un pazzo? Che significano tutte quelle indicazioni e percorsi sulla cartina di Londra? Chi ha sigillato la sua stanza dall'interno?
La sua vicenda suscitò molto scalpore e la sua stanza fu ricostruita nel museo di Londra...
Alcuni pensano che David fosse in grado di sparire e ricomparire a suo piacimento perchè aveva scoperto il segreto "dell'invisibilità"...
...e il mistero continua...
Il palazzo dove viveva David Rodinsky
La sua tomba
La retrocopertina del libro di Rachel Lichtenstein with the photo of David Rodinsky (?)
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