The inner circle were mostly middle-class assimilated Jews.

Evidence

If one seeks a common thread running through individual biographies of the inner circle, the one that immediately comes to mind is their birth into families of middle or upper-middle class Jews (in Adorno’s case, only one parent was Jewish). — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 162

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Wealthy and educated Jews both internalized their own exceptionality as society judged them; Wealthy German Jews saw themselves as fully German until forced out in the 1930s

Broader Connections

• Wealthy German Jews saw themselves as fully German until forced out in the 1930s #exemplifies (0.85)
• Wealthy and educated Jews both internalized their own exceptionality as society judged them #expands (0.75)