For her first book, Rachel Cockerell took an unconventional approach. With the exception of the preface and the afterword, Melting Point, a history of Cockerell’s family and their involvement in early ...

Galveston itself was not intended to be their final stop. Rather, the facilitators of this migration, among them Jacob Schiff, a prominent New York financier, hoped that the newcomers would fan out ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some of the first Jewish immigrants who arrived in Galveston in July 1907. (Courtesy of Rosenberg Library) One does not expect to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Author Rachel Cockerell joins Morning Joe to discuss her new book 'Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised ...

Melting Point is "a book unlike anything I've ever read," said Kathryn Schulz in The New Yorker. It tells the story of a little-known attempt to build an American homeland for European Jews by ...

I was grateful to read Kathryn Schulz’s enthusiastic review of Rachel Cockerell’s book “Melting Point,” which traces an early-twentieth-century effort to resettle Jewish immigrants in Texas (Books, ...

One does not expect to stumble across news about the Galveston Movement in the august pages of The New Yorker magazine. Discussion of this 20th-century resettlement campaign — a breakaway effort that ...