The Institute treated the anti-Semitism project as secondary to its real work

Evidence

As we have very few staff, some things will unavoidably turn out not to be entirely to your taste, nor to mine. But in the end, the whole thing is not really our main job, and next summer at the latest the whole project period should be finished, if possible. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 401

Categorization

  • XREF: Echoes the book’s recurring claim that the anti-Semitism project was instrumentally valuable to the Institute rather than central to its mission. — connects to: The Dialectic of Enlightenment and the anti-Semitism study were mutually entangled projects. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 380; The Institute’s anti-Semitism project was barely begun by early 1944. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 386; Horkheimer claimed the Institute already led research on anti-Semitism measurement while borrowing mass-media methods. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 387 (+2 more)
  • yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: The Dialectic of Enlightenment and the anti-Semitism study were mutually entangled projects. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 380; The Institute’s anti-Semitism project was barely begun by early 1944. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 386; Horkheimer claimed the Institute already led research on anti-Semitism measurement while borrowing mass-media methods. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 387 (+2 more)