Jewish Museum

This guide to the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt, housed in the Rothschild Palais, asks why a government would fund a laboratory here just to let one scientist fail on purpose, again and again. It follows Paul Ehrlich, born to a Jewish family in Silesia in 1854, who arrived in Frankfurt in 1899 believing a chemical could be built to hunt down one disease and leave the rest of the body alone, and Franziska Speyer, the banker's widow who endowed him a private research house to keep testing without limit. You'll also hear about the Renaissance staircases and gilded salons of the palace itself, built for one Frankfurt Jewish family and rebuilt by another.