A funding contract with the AJC turned anti-Semitism into an explicit research topic.

Evidence

It was thus probably the ultimate success of negotiations for a research contract with the AJC which really made anti-Semitism become an explicit research topic. With time, their theoretical reflections on it came to form part of both the Philosophical Fragments and the anti-Semitism project. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 381

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s earlier Institute materials on Horkheimer’s strategic courting of American funders while self-censoring Marxist vocabulary. — connects to: A 1944 AJC commission produced the first psychoanalytic-empirical synthesis study; The Institute pursued anti-Semitism research independently of outside funding, titling it for American audiences. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 297; Foundation philanthropy actively funded the era’s major racial and anti-Semitism research. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 375 (+5 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: A 1944 AJC commission produced the first psychoanalytic-empirical synthesis study; The Institute pursued anti-Semitism research independently of outside funding, titling it for American audiences. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 297; Foundation philanthropy actively funded the era’s major racial and anti-Semitism research. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 375 (+5 more)