{"product_id":"melting-point-family-memory-and-the-search-for-a-promised-land-paperback","title":"Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRachel Cockerell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLong-listed for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Most Anticipated Book\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Fabulous . . . One gets a thrilling sense of history unfolding in real time.\" --Matthew Reisz, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis dazzling, innovative family memoir tells the story of a long-lost plan to create a Jewish state in Texas.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn June 7, 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews set sail for a promised land: not Jerusalem or New York, as many on board had dreamed, but Texas. This was the beginning of the Galveston Plan, a forgotten episode in US history in which ten thousand Jews fled the persecution and brutality of the Russian Empire for the Gulf Coast. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the wake of a dramatic split in the early Zionist movement, a group of rebels impatient for an alternative to Palestine formed a rival organization. Their motto: \"If we cannot get the Holy Land, we can make another land holy.\" Led in their search for a temporary homeland by the renowned novelist Israel Zangwill and by Rachel Cockerell's great-grandfather, David Jochelmann, they scoured the Earth before reluctantly settling on Galveston. Zangwill feared the Jewish identity would be lost in the great American melting pot, but he saw no other hope. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMelting Point\u003c\/i\u003e, Cockerell weaves together diaries, letters, newspaper articles, and interviews in a highly inventive style. Constructed entirely of primary sources, with one flowing into the next, the book lets long-dead voices reanimate, jostle for space, and converge to tell their stories with a novelistic vividness and detail. We follow Zangwill and the Jochelmann family through two world wars and to London, New York, and Jerusalem as their lives intertwine with those of memorable figures of the twentieth century--Theodore Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, and more. \u003ci\u003eMelting Point\u003c\/i\u003e asks what it means to belong, what can be salvaged from the obscured past, and whether a promised land can ever live up to its promises.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRachel Cockerell \u003c\/b\u003ewas born and raised in London, the sixth of seven children. \u003ci\u003eMelting Point \u003c\/i\u003eis her first book. Her research has taken her to Texas, Ohio, New York, Tel Aviv, and Jerusalem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 05, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52072373125421,"sku":"9781250437853","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/melting-point-family-memory-and-the-search-for-a-promised-land-paperback-9772996.webp?v=1780165146","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/melting-point-family-memory-and-the-search-for-a-promised-land-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}