Neumann’s persistence won the Institute its AJC antisemitism funding

Evidence

It was mainly thanks to the stubbornness of Neumann’s efforts that, when a new director was appointed at the AJC’s Research Department in the summer of 1942, the Institute’s anti-Semitism project suddenly had great prospects of receiving financial support. Horkheimer, deeply engrossed with Adorno at Pacific Palisades in work on their major theoretical book, was extremely sceptical, and wrote to Lowenthal in New York: I think that I shall make up my mind and go to New York. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 377

Categorization

• XREF: Names the institutional hinge (AJC Research Department, 1942) that leads toward the later ‘Studies in Prejudice’ volumes. — connects to: Franz Neumann’s lobbying secured American Jewish Committee backing for the Institute’s anti-Semitism study. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 317; The Institute’s anti-Semitism volumes were published as the AJC’s research output.; Without AJC funding there would have been no Elements of Anti-Semitism section — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1506 (+2 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Franz Neumann’s lobbying secured American Jewish Committee backing for the Institute’s anti-Semitism study. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 317; The Institute’s anti-Semitism volumes were published as the AJC’s research output.; Without AJC funding there would have been no Elements of Anti-Semitism section — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1506 (+2 more)