Study of anti-Semitism was promised to secure funding but deferred until the 1940s

Evidence

As noted earlier, one of the arguments employed by Felix Weil and Pollock to persuade the elder Weil to endow the Institut had been the need to study anti-Semitism in Germany. It was not, however, until the 1940’s that this task was actually begun. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 162

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: why did the Institute’s anti-Semitism research only begin in the 1940s despite being a founding selling point?
• XREF: connects to: The American Jewish Committee agreed to fund the anti-Semitism project by 1942 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1241