The Jewish Labor Committee funded Frankfurt School research on labor and anti-Semitism

Evidence

The gap caused by Horkheimer’s absence, and the continuation of the work of the Berkeley group, among others, were eased by a grant lasting from the spring of 1944 to May 1945 for a second project, with which the New York office became a centre for empirical research after all. An additional source of finance, the Jewish Labor Committee, was found for the topic labour and anti-Semitism', which on Horkheimer's initiative had been reduced in size to become part of the analysis of social groups. Gurland, who had a friend in the Jewish Labor Committee, had established contact with it in December 1943. Mr Sherman, the Jewish Labor Committee's field director, was very interested in the Institute's project, Gurland reported. Sherman was convinced that anti-Semitism was constantly on the increase among industrial workers, and it was only because of a lack of staff that a plan along the lines of our “workers’ interviews” program’ had not been carried out. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1554

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The American Jewish Committee agreed to fund the anti-Semitism project by 1942 — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1241; Jewish defense agencies helped fund the Frankfurt School’s anti-Semitism research — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1478; The Institute’s wartime labor study was funded through organized labor connections — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 673

Broader Connections

• The Institute’s wartime labor study was funded through organized labor connections #expands (0.95) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 673