Melting point: family, memory, and the search for a promised land

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Cockerell, Rachel, 1994-
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This dazzling, innovative family memoir tells the story of a long-lost plan to create a Jewish state in Texas. On June 7, 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews sets sail not to Jerusalem or New York, as many on board have dreamed, but to Texas. The man who persuades the passengers to go is David Jochelmann, Rachel Cockerell's great-grandfather. The journey marks the beginning of the Galveston Movement, a forgotten moment in history when ten thousand Jews fled to Texas in the leadup to World War I. The charismatic leader of the movement is Jochelmann's closest friend, Israel Zangwill, whose novels have made him famous across Europe and America. As Eastern Europe becomes infected by antisemitic violence, Zangwill embarks on a desperate search for a temporary homeland--from Australia to Canada, Angola to Antarctica--before reluctantly settling on Galveston. He fears the Jewish people will be absorbed into the great American melting pot, but there is no other hope.
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Cockerell, Rachel, -- 1994- -- Family
Galveston (Tex.) -- History
Jews -- Territorialism
Jews -- Texas -- Galveston -- Biography
Jews, Russian -- Foreign countries -- History -- 20th century
Jochelman, David, -- 1869-1941 -- Family
Zangwill, Israel, -- 1864-1926 -- Friends and associates
Zionism -- History -- 20th century
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Melting point
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Family
Friends and associates
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Jews
Jews, Russian
Jochelman, David
Territorialism
Zangwill, Israel
Zionism

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