Adorno proposed cataloguing Jewish traits that provoke anti-Semitic hostility

Evidence

One aspect of this topic reappeared in Adorno when he took the view, on looking through the interviews for the project dealing with workers (see p. 367), that not all accusations against the Jews were deluded; rather, some of them had a basis in particular Jewish traits which were either genuine grounds for complaint or at least liable to provoke hostile reactions. He suggested that they produce, as a complement to the handbook of the techniques of fascist agitators, another handbook `which lists these traits, explains them and contains suggestions how to overcome them’. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 390

Categorization

• DEFINE: Illustrates the Institute’s unresolved tension between explaining anti-Semitism and implicating its victims.
• QUESTION: Did this proposed handbook ever surface in Adorno’s later work, or was it wholly abandoned?
• XREF: connects to: For Adorno, antisemitism casts Jews as embodying modernity’s repressed other side; Adorno traced anti-Semitism to the Jews’ incomplete or refused transition from nomadism to settlement — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 298; Adorno claimed some anti-Semitic accusations had a real basis in Jewish traits — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1549 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: For Adorno, antisemitism casts Jews as embodying modernity’s repressed other side; Adorno traced anti-Semitism to the Jews’ incomplete or refused transition from nomadism to settlement — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 298; Adorno claimed some anti-Semitic accusations had a real basis in Jewish traits — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1549 (+2 more)