Enjoy a series of Livestream interviews courtesy of The State Library of NSW at your Port Macquarie Library. Rachel Cockerell will screen on Monday 9th March at 11.00am.
Join Rachel to uncover her highly inventive style, exclusive source materials and how she captured history as it unfolded. In conversation with Michaela Kalowski.
RACHEL COCKERELL: MELTING POT
On 7 June 1907, a ship packed with Russian Jews sets sail, not to Jerusalem or New York but to Texas. Desperate to find a temporary homeland as Eastern Europe became infected by antisemitic violence, they were led by Rachel Cockerell’s great grandfather David Jochelmann and his best friend Israel Zangwill. This marked the beginning of the Galveston Movement, a forgotten moment in history in the lead-up to WWI.
Melting Point is a debut work of genre-bending non-fiction following two families through both World Wars, to London, New York and Jerusalem in a story that asks what it means to belong and what can be salvaged from the past.
MICHAELA KALOWSKI – Michaela Kalowski is an interviewer, moderator and curator for writers and ideas festivals. Highlight interviews include Margaret Atwood, David Mitchell, Tim Winton and Stan Grant. She is the curator of Big Weekend of Books, ABC Radio National’s on-air writers’ festival. She produces and hosts a monthly books conversation event for Petersham Bowling Club. Michaela has conducted radio interviews and presented programs across ABC radio and TV. She’s co-presenter and co-writer of a two-part podcast for ABC Radio National, tracing part of her family’s history, called Laya’s Way Home.
