Episode · EconTalk · 2026-01-26
Russ Roberts & Rachel Cockerell: books mentioned on EconTalk
Zionism, the Melting Pot, and the Galveston Project (with Rachel Cockerell)
What happens when a writer discovers her "boring" great-grandfather was actually a household name across the Russian Empire who helped 10,000 Jews escape to Texas?
Russ Roberts recommended The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig, and discussed Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land: A Groundbreaking Family History for Fans of Edmund de Waal and Philippe Sands by RACHEL. COCKERELL. Rachel Cockerell discussed The Jewish State by Theodor Herzl.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land: A Groundbreaking Family History for Fans of Edmund de Waal and Philippe Sands
Discussed“My guest is author Rachel Cochel. Her book, which is the subject of today's conversation, is The Melting Point: Family Memory and the Search for a Promised Land.”
Where to get it
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The Jewish State
Discussed“I mean it's interesting because even Herzel when he first um you know he wrote this little book as he called it which was other people called it a pamphlet. a very slim volume called the Jewish state and even in that book that his sort of first uh founding of of modern Zionism he uh suggested that there could”
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The World of Yesterday
Recommended“His memoir, which I really recommend, which I think your quote is from, it's called The World of Yesterday. It's an extraordinary memoir of life in in in Vienna and in Europe between the wars and then the rise of the Nazis.”
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