Book

Melting Point

Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land

Rachel Cockerell

2025

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Rachel Cockerell’s “Melting Point" tells the story of an exiled people and their effort to find a place to call home.

When Jews Sought the Promised Land in Texas

While some Jewish exiles dreamed of a homeland in Palestine, the Jewish Territorial Organization fixed its hopes on Galveston.

by Kathryn Schulz via The New Yorker on April 28, 2025

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