Author Speaker Series: Rachel Cockerell
Author Speaker Series: Rachel Cockerell
Join us to hear from Rachel Cockerell as she holds a discussion on her book Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land.
May 3 | 4:00 pm Location: Barshop Jewish Community Center of San Antonio 12500 NW Military Hwy, San Antonio, TX 78231
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 Galveston Plan, a forgotten episode of US history during which ten thousand Jews fled the persecution and brutality of the Russian Empire for the Gulf Coast. Journalist and historian Rachel Cockerell writes of this in her new book, Melting Point: Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land.
Private: Author Speaker Series: Allison Epstein
With Fagin the Thief, American novelist Allison Epstein takes on Charles Dickens, one of literature's most iconic authors, and Oliver Twist, one of his most beloved tales. Epstein puts a clever spin on Oliver Twist by shining the spotlight on Fagin.
