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Tamar Yellin is an author and teacher who lives in Yorkshire. Her first novel, The Genizah at the House of Shepher, won the 2007 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.

Tamar Yellin was raised in Leeds. Her father was a third-generation native of Jerusalem;[2] his father was Yitzhak Yaakov Yellin , one of the pioneers of the Hebrew language press in pre-state Israel. Her mother was the daughter of a Polish immigrant to England.

Yellin attended the Leeds Girls' High School. She studied biblical and modern Hebrew language and Arabic language at the University of Oxford

She spent 13 years writing her first novel, The Genizah at the House of Shepher and took two years to find a publisher. This was followed by a collection of 13 short stories, Kafka in Brontëland and another novel, Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes . She also writes fiction for magazines, including The London Magazine and the Jewish Quarterly, and has published stories in two anthologies, The Slow Mirror and Other Stories: New Fiction by Jewish Writers and Mordecai's First Brush with Love: New Stories by Jewish Women in Britain .

Yellin is a teacher for the Interfaith Education Center, in which capacity she speaks to non-Jewish schoolchildren about Jewish religious practices.

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Tamar Yellin

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Books from Tamar Yellin

The Genizah at the House of Shepher

People of the Book: A Decade of Jewish Science Fiction & Fantasy

Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes

Kafka in Brontëland and Other Stories

The Nine Muses

Nemonymous Three

The Book

The Sea of Azov