{"description":"'If we cannot get the Holy Land, we can make another land holy\u2019 \u2013 Israel Zangwill, 1906. \nRachel Cockerell joins historian Trudy Gold to reveal the astonishing moment when 10,000 Russian Jews fled to Texas before WWI - led by Cockerell\u2019s great-grandfather, and the novelist Israel Zangwill. It was part of a search for an alternative Jewish homeland, from Australia to Angola to Antarctica, when Palestine seemed unattainable in the early 1900s. Melting Point \u2013 which Jonathan Freedland calls \u2018unforgettable\u2019 and Andrew Marr calls \u2018truly radical\u2019 \u2013 follows Cockerell\u2019s family to Kyiv, Texas, New York, London and Jerusalem, as each chooses to cling to their history or melt into the melting pot.\u00a0\n\n\nBuy a copy of Melting Pot by Rachel Cockerell","height":1080,"html":"
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