A family memoir is about the search for a Jewish homeland, from Zion to Texas - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

A family memoir is about the search for a Jewish homeland, from Zion to Texas - Jewish Telegraphic Agency

Growing up in London, almost everything Rachel Cockerell knew about the British Jewish writer Israel Zangwill could be summed up in three words: “The Melting Pot.” The title of Zangwill’s 1908 play, about the romance between a Jewish immigrant and Christian woman he meets in New York, became a metaphor for the way ethnic groups are meant to lose their distinctiveness on the way to becoming fully American. She was also dimly aware that Zangwill h…

A family memoir is about the search for a Jewish homeland, from Zion to Texas

Growing up in London, almost everything Rachel Cockerell knew about the British Jewish writer Israel Zangwill could be summed up in three words: “The Melting Pot.”