The Frankfurt School ignored Jewish identity despite Rathenau’s assassination

Evidence

That the lnstitut was founded one year after the foreign minister of Germany, Walter Rathenau, was assassinated largely because of his ethnic roots seems to have had no personal impact on the “assimilated” Jews connected with the Institut. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 163

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: how did a group so sensitive to social analysis miss the anti-Semitism right beside them? This is a puzzle of collective self-blindness.
• XREF: connects to: The Frankfurt School avoided studying anti-Semitism partly to protect its Jewish members. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 432; Assimilation reduced Jewish identity to a mere fact of birth

Broader Connections

• The Frankfurt School avoided studying anti-Semitism partly to protect its Jewish members. #expands (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 432
• Assimilation reduced Jewish identity to a mere fact of birth #expands (0.80)