Fromm’s Orthodox rabbinic family shaped his later social-psychological theories.

Evidence

When a customer came in, he looked up unwillingly and said, `Is there not another shop you could go to?’ This was the story which Erich Fromm told about his great-grandfather, Seligmann Fromm, who was deeply respected in the family and who became a character-shaping ideal for Fromm himself. … His father was a fruit-wine merchant, but was ashamed of his trade, and would rather have become a rabbi. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 205

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fromm carried secularized Jewish themes into his later work — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 164; Fromm’s psychoanalytic career grew out of a Torah-observant Jewish community

Broader Connections

• Fromm carried secularized Jewish themes into his later work #corroborates (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 164