Jewish defense agencies helped fund the Frankfurt School’s anti-Semitism research

Evidence

More or less simultaneously with Myrdal’s completion of his work, the American Jewish Committee, the oldest and most influential of the four large Jewish defence agencies, took the decision to contribute towards the funding of the anti-Semitism project at the Institute of Social Research. This was an event almost as remarkable as what the Carnegie Corporation had done. Numerous studies had already been published, both on the question of race and on the problem of anti-Semitism; on the latter topic, for example, Jews in a Gentile World: The Problem of Antisemitism had appeared in 1942, with contributions from sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and so on, among them Talcott Parsons and Carl J. Friedrich. But projects of this sort were not on a large enough scale to do justice to the social relevance of these problems in a way that matched the scale of the United States. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1478

Categorization

• XREF: Institutional-history detail on how the Institute of Social Research’s exile work was funded; connects to broader US patronage of émigré critical theorists. — connects to: The American Jewish Committee agreed to fund the anti-Semitism project by 1942 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1241; The Jewish Labor Committee funded Frankfurt School research on labor and anti-Semitism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1554; The Frankfurt School’s criticism of émigré corruption preceded its own industry funding — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2053

Broader Connections

• The Jewish Labor Committee funded Frankfurt School research on labor and anti-Semitism #corroborates (0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1554