Tamar Yellin

Tamar Yellin (born 1963) is an English 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.

Biography Tamar Yellin was born and raised in Leeds.

Yellin attended the Leeds Girls' High School.

She spent 13 years writing her first novel, The Genizah at the House of Shepher (2005), and took two years to find a publisher. This was followed by a collection of 13 short stories, Kafka in Brontëland (2006) and another novel, Tales of the Ten Lost Tribes (2008). She also writes fiction for magazines, including The London Magazine and the Jewish Quarterly,

Yellin is a teacher for the Interfaith Education Center, in which capacity she speaks to non-Jewish schoolchildren about Jewish religious practices. 2007 Reform Judaism Prize for Jewish Fiction, for her short-story collection, Kafka in Bronteland