The Invisible Wall

The Invisible Wall is one man’s quest to understand the failure of the German-Jewish relationship and to explain the character and attitudes of Germany’s assimilated Jews over a three hundred-year period.He found rich and remarkable stories in the lives of six Blumenthal ancestors–all of whom happened to be major figures in German-Jewish history. Jost Liebmann, an itinerant peddler of trinkets and cheap jewels who became court jeweler to the Brandenburg nobility; Rahel Varnhagen von Ense, who…