The American Jewish Committee agreed to fund the anti-Semitism project by 1942

Evidence

But he had hardly arrived in the east when he was put to work on elaborating the anti-Semitism project in New York, the American Jewish Committee having in the meantime agreed in principle to support it. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1241

Categorization

  • XREF: The AJC funding the anti-Semitism project connects to the earlier chapters on the Institute’s collaborative empirical studies in America and the eventual ‘Studies in Prejudice’ series. — connects to: Study of anti-Semitism was promised to secure funding but deferred until the 1940s — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 162; Jewish defense agencies helped fund the Frankfurt School’s anti-Semitism research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1478; The Jewish Labor Committee funded Frankfurt School research on labor and anti-Semitism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1554

Broader Connections