Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land

Long-listed for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction

A New York Times Most Anticipated Book

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

This dazzling, 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, as many on board had dreamed, but Texas. This was the beginning of the G...