The Empty Envelope: Family Secrets and a Grandfather's Legacy

In the glittering yet volatile world of 1921 Vienna, a life of brilliance and turmoil ends, and a family erases his memory.

Eisig Lubetzky-a child prodigy and prominent Jewish writer-dies by suicide, leaving behind a wife, three children, and a legacy that almost vanishes overnight. His name fades. His story is buried. And in the family, the silence surrounding his life shapes generations to come.

Many decades later, his psychologist granddaughter and her psychiatrist husband set out to unco...