Gilded Age Mansions of the Jewish Elite

Learn about the mansions of Manhattan’s Gilded Age Jewish elite and what has become of their Manhattan palaces. See how Andrew Carnegie’s neighbor Otto Kahn outdid Carnegie with an Italian-inspired palazzo, now the Convent of Sacred Heart, an all-girls school. Find out what Felix M. Warburg’s father-in-law, Jacob Schiff, really thought about Warburg’s neo-gothic mansion (now the Jewish Museum). Hear the romantic story and tragic death aboard the Titanic of Isidor and Ida Straus and where they once lived.