Most Jewish émigrés to the USA were not political radicals at all.

Evidence

From the start, the émigrés who were drawn to the USA tended to be conservative, while the communist émigrés were concentrated more in Mexico. The Jewish émigrés, who made up over 90 per cent of the German émigrés in the USA, were mostly political refugees only in the sense that they were the victims of Nazi policy, without having actually belonged to opposition parties. Many of those who had been driven towards the political left by rightists who were all more or less anti-Semitic were able, in the USA, to return to more right-wing positions which suited them better. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1068

Categorization

• XREF: Explains why Horkheimer’s Institute became relatively more left-wing simply by staying put — the comparative frame from 1066. — connects to: Most German Jewish émigrés to the USA were not genuine political refugees or anti-fascists. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1068
• SHARE: Counterintuitive demographic point on German Jewish emigration that would intrigue anyone working on mid-century émigré history.

Broader Connections

• Most German Jewish émigrés to the USA were not genuine political refugees or anti-fascists. #corroborates (0.90) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1068