2025-07-16
32 分钟Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet.
I'm Head of Programming, Conor Boyle.
In this episode, we're joined by Rachel Cockrell, author of Melting Point,
to discuss one of the most remarkable and largely forgotten episodes in Jewish history,
the Galveston movement.
Drawing entirely from original source material,
Melting Point brings an overlooked chapter of Jewish history to life with letters,
diaries and newspaper accounts that illuminate the tension between preserving a cultural identity and assimilation.
Rachel is joined by journalist James K. McCauley to discuss these themes as well as migration,
memory and the search for a homeland.
Let's join James now with more.
Hello and welcome to Intelligence Squared with me, James McCauley.
Our guest today is Rachel Cockrell, a writer and historian whose first book is Melting Point.
Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land,
which has been long-listed for the Bailey Gifford Nonfiction Prize and widely acclaimed both in Britain and the United States.
Rachel, welcome to the show.
The story of Zionism is one of the great dramas in modern history,
a powerful and contentious idea at the heart of geopolitics today.
And it's a story that, for the most part, everybody thinks they know, at least a little bit.
For many people,