Fromm’s psychoanalytic career grew out of a Torah-observant Jewish community

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. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 205</cite> (#corroborates`, via linked claim)

Fromm, on the other hand, has often been characterized as retaining secular versions of Jewish themes in his work, even after he left Orthodoxy in the mid-twenties. Frequent comparisons have been made between his work and other members of the Lehrhaus group, particularly Martin Buber. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 164 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The Frankfurt psychoanalysis institute formed through personal Jewish intellectual networks in 1926; Fromm’s Orthodox rabbinic family shaped his later social-psychological theories. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 205; Fromm carried secularized Jewish themes into his later work — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 164 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Fromm’s Orthodox rabbinic family shaped his later social-psychological theories. #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 205
• Fromm carried secularized Jewish themes into his later work #expands (0.82) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 164
• Assimilation converted Judaism from a nationality or religion into a psychological quality #complicates (0.72)