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Book

Melting point : family, memory, and the search for a promised land

Call Number

  • 929.2 C6663 (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

First American edition.

Publication Information

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025.

Physical Description

400 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 24 cm

Summary

"A family memoir detailing the history of an early-twentieth-century effort to settle Jews in Galveston, Texas"--

Notes

"Originally published in 2024 by Wildfire, Great Britain"--Title page verso.

Contents

  • Author's note
  • Preface
  • Vienna, Basel, Galveston
  • New York
  • London.

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