Oheka Castle in Huntington, New York, November 3, 2020. (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
Otto Hermann Kahn s estate from the air (public domain)
Otto Hermann Kahn at the Morristown Field Club on September 25, 1913 (public domain via wikipedia)
Oheka Castle before restoration in the 1980s (courtesy)
HUNTINGTON, New York Social clubs in New Jersey rejected Otto Hermann Kahn from membership for being Jewish in the early 1900s. So the financier decided to build his own castle and golf course atop the highest point of Long Island’s Gold Coast.
Completed in time for the wedding of Kahn’s daughter Maud in 1920, Oheka an acronym for