Melting Point: Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land
By Rachel Cockerell
Wildfire £25
In April 1903, over the Easter weekend, there was a pogrom in the Russian town of Kishinev (now Chișinău, Moldova) directed, as pogroms tend to be, against the Jewish population.
News seeped out, and horror was widespread. ‘The outrages are so horrible as to be almost beyond belief,’ said the Ithaca Daily Journal.
American politician Oscar S Straus said, ‘No one can read without a
