Fromm carried secularized Jewish themes into his later work

Evidence

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

Born in Frankfurt in 1900, Fromm was brought up in an intensely religious milieu. During his adolescence he became strongly attracted to the messianic strains in Jewish thought. “More than anything else,” he was later to write, “I was moved by the prophetic writings, by Isaiah, Amos, Hosea; not so much by their warnings and their announcement of disaster, but by their promise of the ‘end of days.’ … The vision of universal peace and harmony between nations touched me deeply when I was twelve and thirteen years old.” … In his early twenties, Fromm, along with Lowenthal, joined the circle around Rabbi Nobel. He was also instrumental in the formation of the celebrated Freies Jiidisches Lehrhaus, with Georg Salzberger and Franz Rosenzweig. Although Fromm lost the outward trappings of his orthodoxy in 1926 after he was analyzed for the first time in Munich, what might be called an attitude of religiosity remained with him in all his later work. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 320

Categorization

• XREF: Messianic Jewish utopianism as a root of critical theory connects to the general Frankfurt School theme of secularized messianism. — connects to: Fromm read Jewish tradition, especially Hasidism, as preserving matriarchal elements. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 1156; Secularization transferred religious aura to art and literature.; Diaspora Judaism’s spirituality was a defensive feminized redefinition of loss (+4 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 164; Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 320

Broader Connections

• Fromm read Jewish tradition, especially Hasidism, as preserving matriarchal elements. #corroborates (0.95) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 1156
• Secularization transferred religious aura to art and literature. #expands (0.75)
• Diaspora Judaism’s spirituality was a defensive feminized redefinition of loss #complicates (0.72)