This fascinating account of a forgotten moment in history is part family memoir, part the telling of a Texan offshoot of the early Zionist movement, when 10,000 Jews set sail for Galveston before WW1. Formally inventive, the author weaves together fragments of primary source material (letters, diaries, newspaper articles, interviews) to create a seamless, vivid narrative of the search for a Promised Land. Featuring the voices of Theodor Herzl, Israel Zangwill and David Jochelmann (the author’s great-grandfather) et al.