(Page 2 of 2) In May, 1912, more than 2,000 people packed
Carnegie Hall where, on a stage draped in black, the couple was
eulogized by industrialist Andrew Carnegie and banker Jacob
Schiff, among others, according to The New York Times. Weeks
earlier, the Forverts reported that 40 people were injured as
about 40,000 tried to crowd into a memorial service at the
Educational Alliance on the Lower East Side. During the years
that followed, the couple was memorialized in public buildings
and spaces around the world, including a park at 106th Street
near the couple’s home on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. “Mr.
Isidor,” as Kurzman says Straus was known by employees,
regularly walked the shop floor, a pink carnation boutonnière
stuck in the lapel of his dark suit jacket as he greeted workers
by name. Kurzman, a professor of social welfare at the Silberman
School of Social Work at Hunter College in New York, said that
employees today “would be stunned if the CEO of an international
corporation started asking them, by n