The series title was softened to ‘Prejudice’ for assimilationist caution, not due to taboo

Evidence

The fact that Studies in Prejudice' was chosen as the series title rather than Studies in Anti-Semitism’ stemmed from the caution of a Jewish organization intent on assimilation, and not from the notion that, after the industrialized and bureaucratized murder of millions of Jews and other minorities, the apparently harmless-sounding term `prejudice’ was so laden with horror that it could be used without any risk of euphemism. It was a euphemism, and it was being used for reasons of caution and in the hope that democrats would be more likely to respond to a call to fight prejudice and social discrimination in general than they would be to a call to fight anti-Semitism. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1751

Categorization

• QUESTION: Which Jewish organization funded/published the Studies in Prejudice series, and how did its assimilationist politics constrain the research framing and title choices?
• ADDENDUM: This euphemism-for-prudential-reasons dynamic parallels how moral-panic labels like ‘immodesty’ shift for class and political signaling rather than genuine offensiveness, as in the immodesty article.
• XREF: connects to: The series title ‘Studies in Prejudice’ euphemized anti-Semitism for assimilationist caution