WSJ’s Top Book Recommendations-Cary Regional

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

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Author:
Cockerell, Rachel, 1994-
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Cary Regional - Adult Non-Fiction has 2
929.2 COCKE
Morrisville Community - Adult Non-Fiction
929.2 COCKE
North Regional - Adult Non-Fiction
929.2 COCKE
Description:
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...