Guest on EconTalk
2 books recommended · 1 episode
Books they recommend that someone else wrote.
“I had read quite a few sort of Jewish family memoirs like The Hair with Amor Eyes by Edmund Duvall and East West Street by Philippe Sands. And I wanted to write something in that lineage.”
Why: She was inspired by its lineage for her own writing.
East West Street by Philippe Sands
Guest on EconTalkZionism, the Melting Pot, and the Galveston Project (with Rachel Cockerell)
“I had read quite a few sort of Jewish family memoirs like The Hair with Amor Eyes by Edmund Duvall and East West Street by Philippe Sands. And I wanted to write something in that lineage.”
Why: She wanted to write something in the same lineage.
The Hare with Amber Eyes by Edmund de Waal
Guest on EconTalkZionism, the Melting Pot, and the Galveston Project (with Rachel Cockerell)
Their own books, or books they discussed with the author. Not counted as recommendations.
“My guest is author Rachel Cockerell. Her book, which is the subject of today's conversation, is The Melting Point, Family, Memory, and the Search for a Promised Land.”
Melting Point : Family, Memory and the Search for a Promised Land by Rachel Cockerell
Guest on EconTalkZionism, the Melting Pot, and the Galveston Project (with Rachel Cockerell)
Named without an opinion attached.
“he wrote this little book, as he called it, which was, other people called it a pamphlet. It was a very slim volume called The Jewish State. And even in that book, that his sort of first founding of modern Zionism, he suggested that there could be other possible Jewish refuges.”
A Jewish State: An Attempt at a Modern Solution of the Jewish Question by Theodor Herzl
Guest on EconTalkZionism, the Melting Pot, and the Galveston Project (with Rachel Cockerell)