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A Promised Land in Texas

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Rachel Cockerell, author of ‘Melting Point’, is giving a talk this Wednesday, March 13, on the Galveston Movement, when 10,000 Russian Jews fled to Texas in the early-twentieth century.

When: 5–6pm, Wednesday 13 March UPDATED VENUE : 1 Newnham Terrace , Darwin College, Cambridge. The room is accessed via Darwin’s Porters Lodge. Please ask for directions in the Porters Lodge upon arrival

Her book consists entirely of primary sources and has been described by the Guardian as ‘a model of how history writing can be made fresh’. The book can be purchased at the event.

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