Dear Friends,

Thank you for the excellent turnout at our last meeting. Our next meeting will take place on Wednesday, October 15 at 7:30pm, on Zoom.

The book we’ll be discussing is The Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land by Rachel Cockerell.

This 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 set sail for a promised land: not Jerusalem or New York,…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.

Melting Point 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. 

“Fabulous . . . One gets a thrilling sense of history unfolding in real time.” — Matthew Reisz, The Guardian

We have hopes for another strong turnout and a lively discussion.

L’shana tova!