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 ...

When Rachel Cockerell embarked on her first book, she thought she was writing a conventional family memoir. She was in her 20s, unpublished and stuck at home in London during the pandemic. Intrigued ...

Ezekiel was an exile. Born in the kingdom of Judah, he survived the siege of Jerusalem, in 597 B.C.E., but afterward was banished with his fellow-Jews to Babylon. While there, he had an arresting ...

Discovering the ways her great-grandfather’s rich life intersected with the hidden history of Zionism led to an unusually crafted new book, “Melting Point.” By Marc Tracy One summer day 10 years ago, ...

Rachel Cockerell’s “Melting Point” touches on Zionism, assimilation and a short-lived effort to divert Jewish immigrants from Ellis Island to Galveston. Growing up in London, almost everything Rachel ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. For her first book, Rachel ...